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Individual accounts, missing naming standards, and legacy - Linux Foundation's recipe for security disaster • DEVCLASS  DevClass

With the release of Mesa 20.0 being imminent, here is a look at all of the new features for this first quarter update to the Mesa 3D stack for open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers.

Linux And High Availability Go Hand In Hand  E3zine.com

How one company is using Ubuntu Linux to make its IoT platform safer and faster  TechRepublic

Build NodeJS apps with Windows Subsystem for Linux  Microsoft - Channel 9

Meet The New PC Gaming Platform Where Linux Support Is Not Optional  Forbes

Oracle today has released Solaris 11.4 SRU18 as the newest version of the long-running Solaris 11.4 series...

Experts Reaction On Report: Millions Of Windows And Linux Systems Vulnerable To Cyber-attack  ISBuzz News

AMD has expanded their 7002 series "Rome" family with the availability today of the EPYC 7662 as their latest 64-core / 128-thread offering and the EPYC 7532 as a new 32-core part but with a full 256MB cache to offer more per-core L3 cache than other 32-core processors...

New Workload Automation Platform Available on Linux and Windows Servers  ThomasNet News

Failure to sign firmware updates put Windows and Linux devices at risk  SC Magazine UK

Landing last November in the LibreOffice development code was Skia drawing support to replace Cairo and in turn that opens up for Vulkan rendering of this cross-platform, open-source office suite...

 Linux Operating System Market 2020 – Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Strategies, Demand Analysis and Projected huge Growth by 2025  Nyse Nasdaq Live

GamePad: A New Open Source And 100% Linux-Dedicated Game Platform  Fossbytes

With C++20 now being deemed complete from the recent ISO C++ meeting in Prague, the GNU Compiler Collection went ahead and added the -std=c++20 flag where as up until that change this weekend relied upon the -std=c++2a switch. LLVM's Clang compiler now has similar treatment on its codebase...

Like most developers, I search and read source code all day long. Personally, I've never gotten used to integrated development environments (IDEs), and for years, I mainly used grep and copy/pasted file names to open Vi(m).

Eventually, I came up with this script, slowly refining it as needed.

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Have you ever wanted to list all the files in a directory, but just the files, nothing else? How about just the directories? If you have, then the following script, which is open source under GPLv3, could be what you have been looking for.

Of course, you could use the find command:

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If you're on an email discussion group long enough, at some point, you'll see an email from a list member asking to be unsubscribed. Typically, at least 10 other people on the list will respond with instructions on how to unsubscribe, and those 10 responses will be answered by 10 more people confirming or commenting on the instructions. That's a lot of traffic to a mailing list just so one person can unsubscribe.

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Linux Foundation & Harvard carry out open source ‘security census’  ComputerWeekly.com

Added to the Vulkan API last summer was VK_EXT_line_rasterization for line rasterization like employed by CAD applications. The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is now supporting this extension...