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Install VirtualBox on Elementary OS 6 Odin - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Set Up a Network Shared Folder on Ubuntu With Samba  MUO - MakeUseOf

New tool converts pretty much any Linux Docker image into a WSL distro  TechRadar

New tool converts pretty much any Linux Docker image into a WSL distro  Techradar

New tool converts pretty much any Linux Docker image into a WSL distro  TechRadar

New tool converts pretty much any Linux Docker image into a WSL distro  TechRadar

Linux Fu: Walk, Chew Gum  Hackaday

Intel just announced the new brand they will use for their forthcoming high performance discrete graphics solutions...

How to install Teamviewer on Elementary OS 6 Odin  H2S Media

While Fedora currently allows restarting of system services automatically when upgrading the packages for those services, there hasn't been that capability for user services to automatically restart as part of RPM package upgrades. But now approved for Fedora 35 is that change...

The Mediatek Direct Rendering Manager driver updates slated for Linux 5.15 were sent out this weekend...

Linux Foundation CKA Dumps - Secret of Turning Failure into Success  The African Exponent

PineNote Is a $399 E-Reader Running Linux  PCMag

Not only did Debian 11 make it out this weekend, but Slackware 15 is finally up to its release candidate phase as the next major installment of this long-running Linux distribution...

The Maui open-source user interface framework and Maui Apps are out with a new release for those interested in this framework and applications that are designed to work well cross-device as well as largely working cross-platform too...

Linux: Stable Debian 11 'bullseye' arrives with five years of support  ZDNet

Kdenlive 21.08 is now available as the newest feature upgrade to KDE's non-linear video editor...

We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell about who suggested it or what prompted you to learn it. If you were paid to do so, and what happened next. Then there's a lot it says about your age and what was going on in the world.

Let's hear a little bit about these 24 technologists' stories.

What was your first programming language? BASIC

Were you paid to learn it? Nope.

Did you choose it? Not really.

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Linux: Stable Debian 11 'bullseye' arrives with five years of support  ZDNet

There are several third-party libraries for command-line argument parsing, but the standard library module argparse is no slouch either.

Without adding any more dependencies, you can write a nifty command-line tool with useful argument parsing.

Argument parsing in Python

When parsing command-line arguments with argparse, the first step is to configure an ArgumentParser object. This is often done at the global module scope since merely configuring the parser has no side effects.

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