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51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users

Tecmint - 3 hours 38 min ago
The post 51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux is known for its vast set of powerful command-line tools that allow users to interact efficiently with the system.

The post 51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

Phoronix - 8 hours 38 min ago
While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs, writing our first funding proposal that will now enable the Foundation to apply for more grants, vastly improving our financial operations, and implementing a break-even budget to preserve our financial reserves." It turns out that wasn't enough. The GNOME Foundation today announced some new cost-cutting measures for the project overseeing the open-source GNOME desktop...

OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

Phoronix - 10 hours 19 min ago
OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...

FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations

Phoronix - 13 hours 29 min ago
FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well as some new JIT optimizations...

Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT

Phoronix - 15 hours 41 min ago
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...

Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews

Phoronix - 16 hours 53 min ago
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...

Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 22:47
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...

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