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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more.
News
KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier
At least half of Azure is running Linux
Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
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Joe, presumably the desktop and NAS both have wired connections to the router. Is the performance not sufficient to mount the NAS with samba on the desktop and avoid dealing with any file syncing complications? If not, syncthing might be a good option. If you want to schedule an rsync job, you could try using anacron instead of cron to account for the unpredictable schedule of the desktop