Linux For The Rest Of Us #247 – Look Who Showed Up!! (fixed)

June 27, 2020 at 03:32PM
An extensive guide to optimizing a Linux laptop for battery life and performance
Optimization is fun. When it comes to laptops, one of these things you can never have too much of is battery life.

https://medium.com/@amanusk/an-extensive-guide-to-optimizing-a-linux-laptop-for-battery-life-and-performance-27a7d853856c
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June 27, 2020 at 02:53PM
Some Work-At-Home Tips for FOSS Contributors
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone’s lives, and taken the lives of so many of our family members and friends.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jun/23/work-at-home-tips-for-foss/
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June 24, 2020 at 03:31PM
This new Dell XPS 13 build is ditching Windows 10 for Ubuntu
The new Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition ditches Microsoft’s software in favour of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS preinstalled to work straight out of the box, giving developers a new ultra-portable and powerful laptop option.

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-new-dell-xps-13-build-is-ditching-windows-10-for-ubuntu
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June 23, 2020 at 06:16PM
7 open source alternatives to VS Code
Visual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is a code editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It’s the kind of editor that walks the line between editing text and managing your entire codebase, like an integrated development environment (IDE).

https://opensource.com/article/20/6/open-source-alternatives-vs-code
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June 21, 2020 at 04:22PM
Serpent Game Framework
This framework is being developed by Lispy Snake for our first games. While we would love to develop it full time, basic economics says we must reinvest any contract-work revenue to support development in any remaining time.

https://github.com/lispysnake/serpent
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June 16, 2020 at 11:18AM
Proxyjump, the SSH option you probably never heard of
Today, it is becoming more and more common for Penetration Testers, Security Researchers, Red Teams, and the like to require some sort of tunneling in and out of an organization’s infrastructure.

https://medium.com/maverislabs/proxyjump-the-ssh-option-you-probably-never-heard-of-2d7e41d43464
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June 12, 2020 at 02:21PM
Laptop with Linux
Check out our laptops with Linux pre-installed, suitable for every application! Check out our mini computers with Linux preloaded, ideal for business use!

https://laptopwithlinux.com/
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June 11, 2020 at 11:24AM
Haiku R1/beta 2 released (open source BeOS-compatible operating system)
Haiku is an open source operating system that’s been under development for almost two decades as an effort to pick up where the discontinued BeOS left off. But it’s been slow going. Today the Haiku team released Haiku R1/beta 2.

https://liliputing.com/2020/06/haiku-r1-beta-2-released-open-source-beos-compatible-operating-system.html
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June 10, 2020 at 10:44PM
EndeavourOS Review: A Very User-Friendly Arch-Based Linux Distribution
EndeavourOS is a very user-friendly Arch-based Linux distro that fits into a similar-but-different niche as Manjaro. It includes simple, sane defaults and easy-to-use tools that make for an enjoyable user experience that many projects could learn from.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/endeavouros-review/
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June 10, 2020 at 07:03PM
Zipcall – Decentralized video calls
Simple, Secure, and Fast. Peer to peer video calling provides quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology. Zipcall is built radically different. We left behind slow bulky servers, opting for decentralized peer to peer calling.

https://zipcall.io/
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June 08, 2020 at 06:56PM
The rise of Elon Musk and SpaceX
The company plans to launch a public beta of the satellite internet service by the end of the northern hemisphere’s summer and has won approval to deploy one million end-user terminals in the US.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/spacex-weve-launched-32000-linux-computers-into-space-for-starlink-internet/
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June 05, 2020 at 08:34PM
Move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes
This guide explains the steps you need to move Virtual Machine Image to Another Host Using GNOME Boxes. GNOME Boxes is a virtualization utility created by the GNOME project. This utility works as a front end for libvirt.

https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/06/move-virtual-machine-image-another-host/
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June 05, 2020 at 01:23PM
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
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https://hbr.org/2020/06/why-now-is-the-time-for-open-innovation
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June 04, 2020 at 12:04PM
Collabora Online as default in Nextcloud Hub
– Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind LibreOffice in the cloud, announces the immediate availability of Collabora Online as the default collaboration and office app in Nextcloud Hub starting from today’s released Nextcloud 19 featuring an easy installation for users with just a few

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-online-as-default-in-nextcloud-hub/
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June 03, 2020 at 08:26AM
Lenovo now offers Linux on all of its workstation PCs (desktop and laptop)
After years of offering Linux as an option for some of its workstation computers, Lenovo has announced that starting later this month all of its ThinkStation desktop and ThinkPad P Series laptops will be available with a choice of Windows, Ubuntu LTS, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

https://liliputing.com/2020/06/lenovo-now-offers-linux-on-all-of-its-workstation-pcs-desktop-and-laptop.html
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May 29, 2020 at 08:09PM
You can build Linus Torvalds’ PC: Here’s all the hardware and where to buy it
Linus Torvalds is the most famous programmer in the world, father of the Linux operating system, and maker of the near-universal Git distributed version control system. He also builds his own developer workstation and recently upgraded his PC to a speedy AMD Threadripper 3970x-based processor.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-build-linus-torvalds-pc-heres-all-the-hardware-and-where-to-buy-it/
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May 27, 2020 at 09:43AM
MultiCD
The ISO images that MultiCD writes can also be written to a flash drive, although the filesystem will be read-only; see the ISOLINUX documentation for more info. The script can be downloaded from a git repository as a tarball (see the top of the page.) MultiCD is hosted on GitHub.

https://www.lakora.us/multicd/
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May 27, 2020 at 09:39AM
Brave launches Brave Together video calling in latest Nightly version
The makers of the Brave web browser announced the launch of a “private and unlimited video calling service” in Brave called Brave Together on May 26, 2020.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/05/27/brave-launches-brave-together-video-calling-in-latest-nightly-version/
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May 25, 2020 at 05:23PM
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems
An interesting anecdote shared in today’s Linux 5.7-rc7 announcement is word that Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds switched his main rig over to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Torvalds-Threadripper
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