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Debian 9 on a Dell OptiPlex 9020 Micro

By Bob Mesibov 05/07/2017 Editorials

TL;DR: Works fine (see title). The little old box I bought my last desktop from VG Computing (now Linux Now) in Melbourne. It arrived without an operating system and was basically a Mini-ITX board in a Shuttle XH61 case, with selected add-ins. (Specs below). I installed Debian stable and got years…

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Garuda Linux “Broadwing” Released with New Mokka Edition, New Welcome App

Garuda Rani integrates the functionality of the Welcome, Gamer, and Assistant apps.

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Wine 10.3 Brings Improved Wayland Clipboard Support

Wine 10.3 is out with Wayland clipboard support, Vulkan video decoding in WineD3D, Bluetooth driver improvements, and more bug fixes.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Citrix XenServer

XenServer (previously Citrix Hypervisor) is a hypervisor optimized for the Citrix platform.

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How To Install Kernel 6.12.17 On Ubuntu, Debian And Derivative Systems

In this guide we will be installing Kernel 6.12.17, which has been released a while go.

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The FOSS Force Almost Open Tech News Quiz (3/7/25)

A new botnet with up to 86,000 nodes launching massive DDOS attacks has recently been discovered by Nokia’s Deepfield Emergency Response Team.

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GNOME 48 RC Adds Dynamic Triple Buffering, Wayland Color Management Protocol

This release adds support for activating the Activities Overview with either Super key, as well as for centering new windows by default.

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Apertis v2025: the second Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

Following the Apertis release flow, Apertis v2025 is the second Bookworm-based release which includes all the updates from Debian 12.9.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Hex Editors

We feature our recommended GUI hex editors. They are all free and open source software.

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Clonezilla Live 3.2.1 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Linux 6.12 LTS

This is the first release of Clonezilla Live to remove support for 32-bit (i686/i686-pae) systems due to upstream changes in Debian’s repos.

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Linux Candy: wallust – create 16 color palettes

Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open source software in this series.

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