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It's been one year and a few days since the introduction of Mold 1.0 as a high performance linker alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD while debuting today is Mold 1.8 as the newest feature release...

Prior to the holiday weekend Qualcomm engineers posted a set of "request for comments" Linux kernel patches to implement USB audio offloading support for Qualcomm SoCs with a dedicated audio DSP...

Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Patches Posted For The Mainline ...  Phoronix

10 resources for Python programmers Moshe Zadka Mon, 12/26/2022 - 03:00

One of my favorite things about Python is that it's an actual language that's also useful as a teaching language. As in past years, Opensource.com had great articles demonstrating this in 2022.

More Python resources What is an IDE? Cheat sheet: Python 3.7 for beginners Top Python GUI frameworks Download: 7 essential PyPI libraries Red Hat Developers Latest Python articles

• Don Watkins wrote about how he teaches kids Python on the Raspberry Pi. Stephan Avenwedde looked at different Python interpreters, while Mark Meyer explained how to turn your Python script into a command-line application.
   
• Writing web robots in Python has been popular for two decades. In 2022, articles about httpx and using Python requests with BeautifulSoup highlighted two new ways of collecting and analyzing data from websites.
   
• There has never been a more exciting time in packaging Python. Sumantro Mukherjee demonstrated how to package a new Python module in 4 steps, and I covered modern packaging tools.
   
• From learning to production, from code to package, code evolves. One of the best ways to make sure it evolves well is to use automated checkers like Thoth or PyLint.

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Python is a fun language, but it's also a powerful language. You can enjoy Python as a beginner and as a pro, so break out your favorite text editor and start exploring this dynamic and multifaceted language. And have a Pythonic 2023!

There's something for everyone in the world of Python this year.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.2 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

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Critical Linux Kernel flaw affects SMB servers with ksmbd enabled  Security Affairs

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Sway 1.8 is out this Christmas as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Ruby programming language developers have issued a Christmas release of the latest iteration of this language focused on simplicity and productivity...

The IRQ pull request that was merged early in the Linux 6.2 cycle has a big rework to the Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) subsystem...