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What Is a Physical Kill Switch, and Does Your PC Need One?  How-To Geek

What Is a Physical Kill Switch, and Does Your PC Need One?  How-To Geek

Along with XWayland touchpad gestures, another shiny feature was merged this week into X.Org Server Git for XWayland: DRM leasing support!..

The Linux Foundation known for hosting numerous open-source projects and stewarding the Linux kernel, organizing countless events, and employing various LF Fellows such as Linux Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman has published their 2021 report...

Linux Foundation Expects Revenues Of $177 Million This Year  Phoronix

2 ways to Install PyCharm Python IDE on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

2 ways to Install PyCharm Python IDE on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  H2S Media

The LLVM compiler infrastructure supports not only a growing number of CPU architectures but continues to lead when it comes to its support for different accelerators. Back in 2019 NEC was working to upstream their SX-Aurora VE "Vector Engine" Accelerator and now as of this week that target is considered officially supported upstream...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on more feature work for the current Fedora 36 cycle as well as Fedora 37 due out toward the end of next year...

The enablement work for supporting Apple's M1 SoC under Linux continues and with the v5.17 kernel next year will be yet more additions...

Prosecution wraps up its case against Duggar  Arkansas Online

Partaker Intel Core i3-8130U fanless mini PC Win 10 Linux supported $423  Geeky Gadgets

How to Download and Install Firefox Browser on Chromebook  BollyInside

Inkscape is an illustration application, and it works in vectors to ensure limitless resolution for your drawings. Vector illustration is different from freehand illustration. If you're used to drawing freehand, vectors may at first feel restrictive, but once you get used to how vectors get created and how you can use them to construct an image, it's a powerful way to build visuals of all sorts. And if you're not much of an illustrator at all, you might just find that the hands-off approach of vectors means you can draw in Inkscape even though you can't draw with pen and paper.

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AMD Radeon Open-Source Linux GPU Driver Performance: 2020 vs. 2021  Phoronix

What Is 'Sudo' In Linux?  Fossbytes

Apache ShardingSphere is an open source distributed database, plus an ecosystem users and developers need for their database to provide a customized and cloud-native experience. In the three years since it joined the Apache Foundation, the ShardingSphere core team has worked hard with the community to create an open source, robust, and distributed database and a supporting ecosystem.

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So, you have just installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 20 and are ready to make the most of your new system. How do you move forward? In this guide, we will highlight

The post Best Tools to Install on Fresh Linux Mint Installation first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Last Friday Mesa classic drivers were removed from the mainline code-base and punted off to an "Amber" code branch where they will receive whatever attention moving forward. With that classic Mesa code removed, more code cleaning is now happening on top of the tens of thousands of lines of code already removed. Intel's OpenSWR driver has also now been removed from mainline...

What Is ‘Sudo’ In Linux?  Fossbytes