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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

Photo: Linux Mint. percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux.

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Ultimate Vim Config : spf13.com

SPF13

It also works well on Windows, Linux and OSX without even modifying directories. It fixes many of the inconveniences of vanilla vim including: One config can be used across Windows, Mac and linux. Eliminates swap and backup files from littering directories, preferring to store in a central (hidden) location.

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Weekly Update 5-20-2019

Linux Academy

Great news for all of our Linux Academy students; Red Hat Enterprise is already available to try out in Linux Academy’s Cloud Playground! We have more information on t he release in general and all the new features in our podcast Linux Action News and episode 105. Creating a Secondary LUKS Passphrase and LUKS Header Backup.

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Technology Short Take #75

Scott Lowe

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Alpine Linux 3.5 Ajay Chenampara has some observations about running Ansible at scale against network devices.

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Technology Short Take #60

Scott Lowe

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Technology Short Take #60

Scott Lowe

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Technology Short Take #44

Scott Lowe

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Virtualization. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server.

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