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How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? – OSnews  OS News

January – 2023 – OSnews  OS News

Yesterday Valve published their Steam Survey results for December and pointed to some really odd discrepancies. Valve this evening has revised the Steam Survey results that address some of the statistics oddities but still points to the Linux gaming marketshare as a percent regressing during the past month and also the Steam Deck usage declining relative to the overall Linux gaming base...

Valve Revises Steam Survey Results For December - Still Pointing ...  Phoronix

The 4 Best sudo Alternatives for Linux Worth Considering  MUO - MakeUseOf

What Is PPA and How Does It Install Software on Ubuntu Linux?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Merged today to the GNU Debugger (GDB) is initial support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) that is a JSON-RPC interface for use by integrated development environments (IDEs) to better communicate with debuggers...

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 19: SiNsational  GamingOnLinux

Easily Monitor Stock Prices with these GNOME Extensions  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Top 8 Weird and Funny Meme Linux Distributions  MUO - MakeUseOf

NVIDIA Gaming/GPU Performance: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks  Phoronix

Last week was a fresh look at the AMD Radeon graphics/gaming performance between Windows and Linux using the very latest drivers. Today the testing wrapped up from some holiday benchmarking looking at the NVIDIA GeForce performance under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.10 Linux for how the drivers on both operating systems are currently competing.

The open-source R600 Gallium3D driver for supporting up through the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards on Linux has an interesting new year addition... ARB_gl_spirv!..

A new Ubuntu desktop installer has been talked about going back many years and over the past two years has been focused on providing a rewritten installer making use of Subiquity and Flutter. With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default...

OrBit malware: analysis of a threat to Linux  Stormshield

With the start of the new year also came the branching of GNU Binutils 2.40 ahead of its expected stable release around early February...

Dragonfly, the open-source project that advertises itself as "Probably, the fastest in-memory store in the universe!" as a high speed in-memory database that is compatible with the Memcached and Redis APIs has out a big release to kick off 2023...

Beneficial Strategic Report on Linux Operating System Market which includes Market Strategies, Insights, Top C  openPR

The post How to Learn dd Command in Linux [15 Useful Examples] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Brief: In this advanced guide, we will discuss some practical examples of the dd command. After following this guide, advanced users will be able to work with the block devices comfortably from the command

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7 Git articles every open source practitioner should read AmyJune Mon, 01/02/2023 - 03:00

Understanding the Git version control system is foundational for many open source practitioners. Whether you are an advanced user or you want 2023 be the year to get started, Opensource.com has plenty of resources for you. Here are a few recent Git articles that I recommend:

The first in a series by Dwayne McDaniels, Git concepts in less than 10 minutes, assures us that, yes, Git can seem intimidating, but knowing and understanding the basic building blocks can break down the barriers. Six basic commands and concepts are explained so you can move on to more advanced Git tools and commands.

5 Git configurations I make on Linux by Alan Formy-Duval is a straightforward guide to getting started working with Git on Linux. There are so many configuration options, and Alan suggests starting with global configuration to help make set up easier every time.

How to rename a branch, delete a branch, and find the author of a branch in Git is a straightforward article about the most common commands around Git branching.

If you tend to misuse Git or write many Git hooks like author Seth Kenlon, bringing the Git subcommand rev-parse into your bag of tricks may be a good option. Peek inside your Git repo with rev-parse reminds you that if you do scripting with Git, you need information about the Git repository. Using the rev-parse subcommand is one way to find what you're looking for.

In Evan “Hippy” Slatis’s article, How I use the Git for-each-ref command for DevOps, Evan explains that Git can be used not only to capture history across files, but also to capture metadata. The article includes a pragmatic example of how the for-each-ref command is used to discover where a bug was introduced into the repository.

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This fun article was crowdsourced from Opensource.com's writer’s list. Happy anniversary, Git! Here are our favorite Git commands has some Git fan favorites along with some new ones that everyone is sure to appreciate and enjoy.

In Seth Kenlon’s article, Make your own Git subcommands, Seth demonstrates how to make your own Git command using custom scripts. It’s easier than it might at first seem, and it’s a great way for intermediate or advanced users of Git to extend Git’s capabilities based on their own requirements.

Get started with Git in 2023 with these helpful articles.

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