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A Fresh Installation of Debian 11 Bullseye

Tecmint - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 15:49
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August 14, 2021, marks a new major release for the popular Debian Linux distribution. Codenamed Bullseye and chock-full of enhancements as well as software updates after 2 years, 1 month, and 9 days of

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Why Mark Text is my favorite markdown editor

opensource.com - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 15:00

I got introduced to the markdown format a few years ago when I began to explore Jupyter Notebooks. Many of the other writers at Opensource.com knew markdown, but it was a skill that was unfamiliar to me.

Markdown is a standard way of writing text, in which you use minimal notation to markup how you want the text styled. For instance, instead of clicking a button to make a word bold, you surround the word with two asterisks (**word**). This has two effects:


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Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:00
After successfully getting Mesa's software-based Lavapipe Vulkan implementation building on Haiku last month along with related Mesa code for headless support, a developer independent of AMD has started work on porting the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" to Haiku...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Begins Development

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 04:00
Canonical today formally opened the "Jammy" archive for development for what will be the next version of Ubuntu, 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish"...

Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:30
Apple today announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max as their most powerful SoCs ever built by the company. The new chips feature up to a 10-core processor, 32-core GPU, and up to 64GB of unified memory...

Valve Launches "Steam Deck Verified" Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:15
Valve is introducing a Steam Deck Verified system for helping gamers find out what games have been verified to work well on their forthcoming AMD+Linux-powered handheld game console...

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