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How to install Firefox on a Chromebook  TechRadar

While other mobile operating systems have for years been on a 64-bit software stack and in the process of phasing out 32-bit app support, Jolla is celebrating Sailfish 4.1 as finally marking their first fully 64-bit Sailfish OS software stack -- for use currently just with the Sony Xperia 10 II smartphone...

Kali Linux team releases Kaboxer, a tool for managing applications in containers - Help Net Security  Help Net Security

Last month with the Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 driver there was finally Vulkan ray-tracing support added to that proprietary Vulkan driver component, the first time that Vulkan ray-tracing has been available on Linux for any AMD Radeon 6000 series graphics card across the multiple driver options. Last month I posted some initial Vulkan ray-tracing AMD vs. NVIDIA Linux benchmarks while questions were raised how well the driver performs with NVIDIA's Quake II RTX port. Here are some initial benchmarks for those wondering...

Quake II RTX Performance For AMD Radeon 6000 Series vs. NVIDIA On Linux  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 32 Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Fedora Linux 34 Now  LXer

Qt Multimedia should return for Qt 6.2's release later this year and is perhaps the module changing the most in its transition from Qt5 to Qt6...

While working on a continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) solution for a customer, one of my first tasks was to automate the bootstrapping of a CI/CD Jenkins server in OpenShift. Following DevOps best practices, I quickly created a configuration file that drove a script to complete the job. That quickly became two configuration files when I realized I needed a separate Jenkins server for production.

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More than 20 years ago, when Robert Maynord started teaching at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Monona, Wisconsin, the school had only eight functioning computers, all running Windows 95. Through his expertise in and enthusiasm for Linux and open source software, Robert has transformed the school community, its faculty, and its students, who are in kindergarten to eighth grade.

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I was once asked why computers are called "computers" when they do so much more than compute numbers. A modern PC browses the internet, plays audio and video, generates beautiful graphics for video games and movies, simulates and predicts complex weather patterns and epidemiological risks, brings architectural and engineering blueprints to life, and much more.

The reason computers can do all of this because all these problems can be expressed as numerical equations, and the computer's CPU—its central processing unit—is actually little more than a simple calculator.

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The post How to Install Latest LXQt Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LXQt developed from popular components of LXDE and Razor Qt project, LXQt is a free, open-source, lightweight, and fast desktop environment for Linux and BSD distributions. It comes with several great and well-known features,

The post How to Install Latest LXQt Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

IAR Systems extends product portfolio for streamlined Lin...  evertiq.com

Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, various downstreams are beginning to release their respective updates based against the RHEL 8.4 changes...

CloudLinux provides Linux support services for Department of Defense - Help Net Security  Help Net Security

Chrome 91 features 32 security fixes, enhancements for Linux SC Magazine  SC Magazine

Rumored Steam Console is Like the Switch, Will Run Linux  GameRant

Merged today to Linux 5.13 Git and marked for back-porting to stable series is a new "confused deputy" weakness and affects kernels going back to Linux 2.6.12 from 2005...

Linux Picks Up Fix For Latest "Confused Deputy" Weakness Going Back To 2.6.12 Kernel  Phoronix

Microsoft, GitHub, Linux Foundation and others launch green software initiative  DatacenterDynamics

Epic Games today pushed Unreal Engine 5 out to early access. Like with UE4, Unreal Engine 5 continues offering native Linux support and allowing use of the Vulkan API...