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How to configure Openbox for your Linux desktop

opensource.com - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:02

You may have used the Openbox desktop without knowing it: While Openbox is a great window manager on its own, it also serves as the window manager "engine" for desktop environments like LXDE and LXQT, and it can even manage KDE and GNOME. Aside from being the foundation for several desktops, Openbox is arguably one of the easiest window managers to configure for anyone who doesn't want to learn all the options to put into a config file.


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How to replace a hard drive on Linux

opensource.com - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:01

I built my current desktop about three years ago and installed a solid-state drive (SSD). Later, I needed more storage space, so I installed a second drive—an older spindle and platter hard disk drive (HDD) that happened to be lying around. Recently, I decided to replace this HDD with an SSD.

This article walks through the steps for replacing the drive, including some commands used for identifying and configuring a drive and editing the configuration file Linux uses.


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Watch these videos from the Linux App Summit

opensource.com - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:00

For some, the holidays are a hectic time of shopping, cooking, and a house overflowing with loved ones. For others, they’re quiet times spent with just a few friends, or even in solitude behind the warm glow of a computer monitor. And for still others, it’s a workday like any other.

No matter how you end up spending the holiday season this year, there’s comfort to be found in the Linux App Summit of 2019. This summit, which combined the strengths of everyone involved in developing applications for Linux, focused on a few major topics:


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How to Install PuTTY on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 13:30
PuTTY is a free and open-source cross-platform SSH and telnet client that even after being around for over 20 years remains one of the most popular SSH clients being used especially on the Windows...

Intel's MKL-DNN/DNNL 2.0 Beta 3 Release Adds SYCL + Data Parallel C++ Compiler

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 13:09
Intel's MKL-DNN Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) that is open-source and catering to deep learning applications like Tensorflow, PyTorch, DeepLearning4J, and others is nearing its version 2.0 release. With DNNL 2.0 is now support for Data Parallel C++ as Intel's new language as part of their oneAPI initiative...

Radeon Linux 5.6 Changes Begin Queuing - Better Power Management, Adds DMCUB Controller

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 08:06
While the Linux 5.5 merge window has just been over for less than one week, AMD has already submitted their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next of new graphics driver material aiming for Linux 5.6 early next year...

GNOME Shell 3.35.2 Begins Launching Spawned Processes Within Systemd Scopes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2019 - 04:36
Out today is a new development release of GNOME Shell on the road to GNOME 3.36 in March...

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