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How to Try Linux Without a Classical Installation  LXer

Price Drop: This CompTIA Linux network certificate bundle is just $20 today  Computerworld

If the recent releases of KDE Plasma 5.20 and GNOME 3.38 didn't fulfill your wishes for a dream Linux desktop and are looking for something lightweight, LXQt 0.16 is out today...

Termux, a terminal mulator for Android and an application in a Linux environment that works directly without having to root the smartphone  re:Jerusalem

With C++20 one of the major features added is that of modules as a modern alternative to that of conventional C++ header files for packages. The C++20 modules code for the GNU Compiler Collection that has been in the works for several years is now under review and could potentially still land for the GCC 11 release next year...

Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser  TechRadar

Open Source Groups Merge for Better High-Tech Traction  LinuxInsider.com

How to Force Users to Change Their Passwords on Linux  How-To Geek

Linux Software Market Distributors Analysis 2020-2028 – The Think Curiouser  The Think Curiouser

How to Check Free Disk Space on Linux [Terminal and GUI Methods]  It's FOSS

Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux  Phoronix

Beginning in Dell's 2021 laptop models they are providing hardware-based "privacy buttons" to disable microphone and camera support. In preparations for more Dell laptops coming to market with these buttons, a Dell privacy driver is being prepared for the Linux kernel...

One of the areas of the Qt 6.0 toolkit with the greatest number of improvements is on the Qt Quick 3D front...

Global Linux Computer Market Expected To Reach Highest CAGR By 2026: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers etc.  TechnoWeekly

Meet DahliaOS: Is This The Fuchsia OS We All Wanted?  Fossbytes

Build 88.0.685.3 brings Mac and Linux changes to the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel  OnMSFT

There's still more than one month to go until the Linux 5.11 merge window kicks off but Intel open-source developers have already submitted their initial batch of kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next...

Intel's Initial Graphics Updates For Linux 5.11: More DG1, Integer Scaling, Async Flips  Phoronix

Open source software is everywhere these days—which is great—but how can you be sure that you should trust the software you've downloaded to do what you want? The area of software supply chain management—of which this discussion forms a part—is fairly newly visible in the industry but is growing in importance. I'm going to consider a particular example.

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JavaScript is a popular programming language that started out as a single-threaded, synchronous language, meaning that one step runs after another step without waiting to fetch any external resources or perform any lengthy calculation or process. If the script requires such a resource or calculation, this synchronous behavior results in an error. This blocks all other processes in the queue from running whether or not they were dependent on the step that produced the error.

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