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Multicolumn Dock GNOME Extension Rethinks What a Dock Can Do

A dock is a dock, right? A line of icon shortcuts for quick access to your apps. The Multi-Column Dock extension for GNOME 45-47 takes that simple idea, but adds organisational features. A GitHub description describes this as: β€œa customizable multi-column dock for GNOME Shell Keep your apps neatly organized with grouping, smooth scrolling, easy drag-and-drop reordering, auto-hide, and full multi-monitor support.” The main draw is that you can group related applications together in the dock, give each grouping a label and background colour and then collapse or expand them on the fly. If you’ve often use a bunch of […]

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Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support

Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...