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The guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to install and configure SQL Server 2022 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x or 9.x. It covers the prerequisites, installation steps, and configuration details for running SQL Server, including enabling SELinux for confined applications on RHEL 9. Additionally, it explains how to install SQL Server command-line tools like sqlcmd and bcp for managing databases.

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Synchronizing files between Linux and Windows can seem challenging, especially if you’re not familiar with the tools available. However, with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), this process becomes much simpler.

WSL allows you to run a Linux environment directly on Windows, enabling you to use powerful Linux tools like Rsync to sync files between the two operating systems.

In this article, we’ll walk you through the entire process of using Rsync to sync files between Linux and Windows using WSL. We’ll cover everything from setting up WSL to writing scripts for automated syncing.

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This roundup focuses on software that mimics a hardware KVM switch. Use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen, or by using a keypress to switch focus to a different system.

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Are you searching for a new desktop environment for your Linux OS? Perhaps you’d like to give Orbitiny Desktop a try!

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In this guide, we will learn why and how to safely edit the hosts file in Linux, along with real-world examples.

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Learn how to install Visual Studio Code on Arch Linux step-by-step to enjoy seamless coding with the most popular code editor.

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Discover Resources, a GUI-based Linux system monitoring tool, and the process to install it on your favorite Linux distribution with usage instructions.

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Here is our opinion on the finest accountancy software available for Linux. We only include free and open source software.

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The Meerkat mini PC now ships with either the Intel Core Ultra 7 125H processor with up to 4.5GHz and 14 cores16 cores or the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor with up to 4.8GHz and 16 cores, and integrated Intel ARC graphics, as well as up to 96 GB dual-channel DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, and up to 16 TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe storage.

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Google breathes new life into Pebble watches with an OS source code release, giving developers the tools to continue this smartwatch journey.

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Powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.01 ships with the latest KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 24.12.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.10 software suites, all built using the Qt 6.8.1 open-source application framework.

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A Virtual Private Network is a technology solution used to provide privacy and security for inter-network connections. The most well-known case consists of people connecting to a remote server with traffic going through a public or insecure network (such as the Internet).

In this article, we will explain how to set up a VPN server in an RHEL 9 server using OpenVPN, a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library.

For simplicity, we will only consider a case where the OpenVPN server acts as a secure Internet gateway for a client.

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Hyprland 0.47 tiling Wayland compositor is here with HDR support, squircles, enhanced protocols, and internal rewrites for better stability.

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KDE Plasma users, get ready for some big updates. Discover’s Flatpak support, new Time Zone Map are coming to KDE Plasma 6.3 and 6.4

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This week brought us a major Wine release for those of you wanting to install Windows apps on Linux, a new GNU Linux-libre kernel for those of you who don’t like proprietary code, several new updates for fans of the GNOME desktop environment, and a new major release of the Solus distribution.

On top of that, there were new VirtualBox, fwupd, and Shotcut releases. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for January 26th, 2025.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 134 rolls out with real-time desktop alerts, visual improvements, and critical fixes (only for testing purposes).

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Microsoft unveils DocumentDB—an open-source NoSQL datastore built on PostgreSQL, now available under the MIT license.

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The functions command in Fish shell lets you manage and interact with Fish functions. This tutorial explains how to manage functions in Fish shell on Linux.

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Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime designed to simplify and accelerate the development of JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Unlike traditional runtimes, Bun combines multiple tools into a single, cohesive package, including a bundler, test runner, and a Node.js – compatible package manager.

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