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Cast your Android device with a Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 16:02

It's hard to stay away from the gadgets we use on a daily basis. In the hustle and bustle of modern life, I want to make sure I don't miss out on the important notifications from friends and family that pop up on my phone screen. I'm also busy and do not want to get lost in distractions, and picking up a phone and replying to messages tends to be distracting.


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6 open source tools for wedding planning

opensource.com - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 16:01

If I were to say I had planned on writing this article a year or so ago, I would be wrong. So, I'll give you a small amount of backstory about how this came to be.

On March 21st, I will be "getting married." I put that in quotes because I got married in Las Vegas on March 21, 2019. But I'm getting married again because my mom, who told us to elope, decided she was wrong and wanted a real wedding. So here I am, planning a wedding.


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10 articles you should read right now by women in tech

opensource.com - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 16:00

"Women in tech" is a label we use to describe humans who identify as women who are working in or playing with "tech," which is a broad term itself these days as it's all around us, touching almost everyone's life in a myriad of ways.


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How to Use Heredoc in Shell Scripting

Tecmint - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 14:03
The post How to Use Heredoc in Shell Scripting first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Here document (Heredoc) is an input or file stream literal that is treated as a special block of code. This block of code will be passed to a command for processing. Heredoc originates in

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Waffle 1.7 Released For Runtime OpenGL / Windowing System Selection

Phoronix - Mon, 03/08/2021 - 13:00
It's been a while since last having anything to report on Waffle as the library abstracting OpenGL and windowing system selection to run-time while this weekend marked its v1.7 release...

Btrfs Will Finally "Strongly Discourage" You When Creating RAID5 / RAID6 Arrays

Phoronix - Sun, 03/07/2021 - 23:00
For a number of years it has been known that the Btrfs RAID5 and RAID6 code is potentially unsafe and not nearly as mature as the native RAID support found in this Linux file-system for other levels. Finally now we are seeing the Btrfs user-space programs warn the user when attempting to create such Btrfs native RAID 5/6 configurations...

Mesa 21.1 Addresses Issue Of Gallium Nine Often Hitting Memory Issues With 32-bit Games

Phoronix - Sun, 03/07/2021 - 22:26
For those using Gallium3D Nine as a Direct3D 9 state tracker when running Windows games on Linux rather than the likes of DXVK for going through Vulkan, next quarter's Mesa 21.1 will better handle 32-bit games with the Nine state tracker...

Linux 5.11.4 Released With Some Prominent Fixes, Hardware Additions

Phoronix - Sun, 03/07/2021 - 20:53
While Linux 5.12-rc2 released on Friday due to that prominent corruption bug, there still is some Sunday kernel fun with Greg Kroah-Hartman releasing a slew of stable kernel updates including Linux 5.11.4 and 5.10.21 LTS...

Glibc 2.34 Will Provide More Helpful Linker Diagnostics

Phoronix - Sun, 03/07/2021 - 19:49
With the exciting "HWCAPS" feature of Glibc 2.33+ allowing for optimized versions of libraries to be more easily deployed on Linux systems, diagnosing issues around it can be a bit more complicated but on the way for Glibc 2.34 is a welcome improvement to help in such issues...

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