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We review the EndeavourOS 21.4 (Atlantis) — the best Arch Linux flavor for beginners.

There[he]#039[/he]s something special about maps. I remember opening the front book cover of JRR Tolkien[he]#039[/he]s The Hobbit when I was younger, staring at the hand-drawn map of Middle Earth, and feeling the wealth of possibility contained in the simple drawing. Aside from their obvious purpose of actually describing where things are in relation to other things, I think maps do a great job of expressing potential. You could step outside and take the road this way or that way, and if you do, just think of all the new and exciting things you[he]#039[/he]ll be able to see.

The “State of the Word” address from the WordPress CMS project will be both live and in person, as well as streamed for viewing from home.

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O3DE is an open-source 3D engine that you can use to create high performance interactive experiences, including games and simulations. Yesterday the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) announced the O3DE Stable 21.11 release of the Apache 2.0-licensed Open 3D Engine project.

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Want to give your Terminal a retro look? This guide contains instructions to help you to install Cool Retro Terminal application in all Linux distributions.

PHP 8.1 has been officially released and brings numerous innovations, such as enumerations, fibers, and performance improvements. Here’s what’s new.

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MySQL is one of the most popular database in the world. This database can be installed on the Microsoft Windows platform besides of Linux platform. Why this database is so popular? It may caused by its powerful feature and its free to use. As a database administrator, a database backup is really crucial to maintain the availability of the data. It will minimize the risk if something happens to our database.

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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2021 issue.

In the December 2021 issue:

• Paul’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
• Inkscape Tutorial: Speckled Text
• Online game Stores For PCLinuxOS
• Short Topix: Linux Kernel 5.15 Gets Improved NTFS Driver, LTS Designation
• Repo Review: FF Multi Converter
• David’s Top 10 Holiday Gift Picks
• Meemaw’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
• PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: 5-Ingredient Chicken Alfredo Bubble-Up Bake

This month’s cover was designed by Meemaw & parnote.

 

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GNOME’s Text Editor simple and lightweight text editor app is getting some new features and improvements as part of the upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment series, due out in Spring 2022.

In today’s article we’ll be seeing the top 7 reasons to switch to Linux from Windows, and why it could be a viable option for you in the future.

Container-diff is an open source product from Google that helps you to analyze and compare container images hosted in Google cloud platform.

SoundConverter is a useful application not just because it does exactly what its name says it does, but because it does it in batches and in parallel.

In Linux/Unix, we can run and schedule many tasks automatically using the cron command. You can execute both commands once or at a regular interval. ‘Cron’ is widely used for scheduling repetitive jobs at regular intervals (run using commands listed in a table called ‘crontab’) and the ‘at’ procedure is used to schedule a job once in a specific time period. Crontab maintains individual crontab files for all users. These automated jobs will be hugely beneficial to many administrators who work with Linux servers.

Generally, the ‘crontab’ file is used for backups, updating systems, synchronizing servers, etc. The best thing about the cron is that you don’t need to understand it in detail, but rather, you only need to know how to use it as part of setting up cron jobs.

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Blender 3.0 is a massive update that introduces numerous new features and dozens of enhancements to the 3D modeling software. One huge change in this release is the fact that Blender now uses the Vulkan next generation graphics and compute API by default for better graphics performance with lower power consumption.

Another big change in the 3.x series is the replacement of the BGL module with the GPU module. Also, Blender’s Cycles received a major revamp that leads to significantly improved GPU rendering performance and interactivity in Blender 3.0.

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GNOME’s Gedit lightweight text editor is getting some new features and improvements as part of the upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment series, due out in Spring 2022.

Not only will you get to learn things you maybe don’t know about Linux, you might win a copy of Linux Cookbook SE, or some amazing swag!

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The release of CentOS Stream 9 has been carried out before CentOS Linux 8 expires at the end of this year. The distro is based on Fedora 34, the same code base that RHEL 9 uses.

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What’s new in EndeavourOS Atlantis for newcomers who want to use Arch Linux on their personal computers? Well, the first major change is the fact that the ISO release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series, which not only brings a lo

EndeavourOS Atlantis sticks to Xfce 4.16 as default desktop environment on the live session and adds several improvements and new additions to the EndeavourOS apps/tools. For example, there’s a new sanity check for NVIDIA GPU users and kernel updates to prevent boot failures after an update.

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Container-diff is an open source product from Google that helps you to analyze and compare container images hosted in the Google cloud platform.

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The release of CentOS Stream 9 has been carried out before CentOS Linux 8 expires at the end of this year. The distro is based on Fedora 34, the same code base that RHEL 9 uses.