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16 Apr

Oracle Linux 9 Update 3 is now generally available, as expected! – Oracle

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16 Apr

RebornOS is a beautiful, user-friendly take on Arch Linux with desktop options galore – ZDNet

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Jack Wallen/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysRebornOS is a beautiful, user-friendly take on Arch Linux that is available now and can be installed for free.RebornOS offers a desktop environment for just about any user type (selected during installation).The pre-installed app store is broken and has to be replaced with another.RebornOS is built by a team of developers, artists, and other individuals with one important goal: to make Arch Linux as user-friendly as possible. I can say, wholeheartedly, that the team has achieved that goal. RebornOS makes Arch Linux easy to use and, with the right desktop, an adventure in fun and elegance. Also: Dynebolic is…

16 Apr

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL – Phoronix

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15 Apr

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience – Phoronix

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Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution. Archinstall 2.8 mostly comes down to a bug fix release but has a few notable changes over prior versions. Archinstall 2.8 increases the EFI System Partition (ESP) size to 1GB rather than 512MB, fixes Btrfs mount options handling, fixes enabling of Arch Linux testing repositories, fixing custom mirror handling for Pacman, and adding a number of other bug fixes. Plus there is documentation updates as well as various translation updates. Downloads and more details…

15 Apr

TrueNAS Scale arrays place open source HCI into spotlight – TechTarget

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Open source vendor iXsystems has tuned TrueNAS storage for scale-out converged infrastructure.In a move it telegraphed in August, iXsystems this week formally launched the TrueNAS Scale HCI platform. The system packages scale-out OpenZFS storage with x86-based TrueNAS storage servers.TrueNAS Scale is available as open source software built on Debian Linux, or as an integrated system based on TrueNAS X-Series, M-Series and new R-Series appliances. The R-Series expands the TrueNAS lineup with four models designed for density and performance. For cloud service providers, iXsystems has added managed NAS services and fleet automation via its TrueCommand SaaS management software.TrueNAS Scale is the…

14 Apr

Your occasional storage digest featuring Diamanti, HYCU, TrueNAS and more – Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files

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Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week’s storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but capacity-limited free-for-life software edition. HYCU has found another great sub-niche for its data protection – SAP HANA on Google Cloud, and iXsystems has added two more products to its TrueNAS range. Diamanti Ultima Diamanti, the supplier of a hyperconverged system for running Kubernetes orchestration of containers, has announced a standalone software product called Ultima. This is an integrated networking and storage data plane system and extends across on-premises and cloud-based environments,…

14 Apr

MX Linux Reinvents Computer Use [Review] – LinuxInsider

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MX Linux is a blend of mostly old and some new things. The result is an appealing midweight Linux operating system. The midweight category is a bit unusual. Desktop environments that run well on minimal hardware typically fall into the lightweight category. Lightweight environments like Xfce, LXDE/LXQt, Enlightenment, and iceWM often are paired with software applications that do not tax system resources with heavy graphics and animations. Lightweight Linux distros are good choices to keep aging computers running fast and furious. So-called midweight distros push the resource limits a bit with more full-bodied software and features that place them on…

14 Apr

MakuluLinux Shifts Designs for a Better Linux Experience – LinuxInsider

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In September 2020 Jacque Montague Raymer, developer and creator of the MakuluLinux family of distributions, released a new distro inspired by a project he shelved several years ago. On Aug. 10 of this year, he released an upgrade that puts an expanded “Shift Distro” into revolutionizing the Linux distribution’s user interface. MakuluLinux Shift is a well-designed Linux distro that blends several mainstream design concepts with performance features not found elsewhere. One of Shift’s most unique features — which Raymer greatly expanded in the 2021-08-10 version — is the ability to modify major design elements effortlessly. Hence, its name. A few…

14 Apr

MX Linux 21.3 “Wildflower” released: Debian 11.6 base, Xfce 4.18, improved hardware support – Neowin

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MX Linux 21.3 “Wildflower” has been released over the weekend bringing bug fixes, kernel, and application updates. Notably, MX Linux is now based on the latest Debian 11.6 base and comes with Xfce 4.18 which was released in December. As a point release, MX-21 users needn’t bother reinstalling MX Linux to get this update, instead, you can just apply all the available updates. For those just hearing about MX Linux, it’s rated first on Distrowatch’s page hit rankings, meaning it’s one of the most looked-into distros by Linux users. It offers Xfce, KDE, and Fluxbox editions and aims to offer…

13 Apr

[Phoronix] Big Linux 2.1 (3D) Image (Biglinux 21 Ss12) – Phoronix

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[Phoronix] Big Linux 2.1 (3D) Image (Biglinux 21 Ss12) < Previous Photograph - Return To Article - Next Photograph > < Previous Photograph - Return To Article - Next Photograph >Big Linux 2.1 (3D): Ever since Microsoft had released information regarding Avalon with its 3D support, the graphics subsystem that is going to be used by the Longhorn, more enthusiasts have been after 3D desktops. Project Looking Glass (LG3D), a 3D windowing and visualization project devised by the developers at Sun Microsystems and community supporters, was what had caught our attention (due to the Linux support) regarding the future of…