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Leading teams at Red Hat: From individual contributor to managing real-time Linux kernel development

Red Hat News - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 12:00

Red Hat's Products and Technologies organization is doing game-changing work in the IT industry. In showcasing the unique stories of Red Hatters around the world, it's clear that there's no one path to finding success at Red Hat. For each of us, it's about open collaboration and building something together.

Linux 5.14-rc4 Released With Change Following Some Broken Android Apps, Other Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 08:30
Linux 5.14-rc4 is available today as a rather smooth update with nothing too worrisome but just a decent amount of fixes and nothing that is causing Linux creator Linus Torvalds to be frustrated...

Steam Survey Shows Linux Marketshare Hitting 1.0%

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 08:15
Not only did Valve announce Steam Deck in July but the overall Linux gaming marketshare according to the Steam Survey also hit a multi-year high...

Linux 5.15 Adding Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP)

Phoronix - Mon, 08/02/2021 - 02:42
Linux 5.15 is positioned now to see a Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) implementation with the code now queued in net-next with this being a protocol for communication between management controllers and managed devices...

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Progress On x86_64, Multi-Monitor

Phoronix - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 19:21
ReactOS as the long-running open-source project striving for Windows ABI compatibility has been making some significant progress this summer on various endeavors...

LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 Up For Testing With Its Initial GTK4 Work, Command Pop-Up / HUD

Phoronix - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 19:13
LibreOffice 7.2 is preparing to ship this month while out today is LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 for facilitating last minute testing of this leading open-source office suite...

LE9, Canonical's Profits, Steam Deck, & Loongson 3A5000 Made For An Exciting July

Phoronix - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 18:36
July was a pretty damn exciting summer month amid the pandemic thanks to many interesting Linux software and hardware announcements...

SDL 2.0.16 Is On The Way With Better Wayland Support, Improved PipeWire Integration

Phoronix - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 18:12
SDL 2.0.16 is being prepared for release as the successor to SDL 2.0.14. Particularly for Linux users this SDL 2.0.16 update is significant with some key enhancements for this library that is common to multi-platform games and part of the Steam runtime...

Lutris 0.5.9 Beta Released With Epic Games Store Support, DXVK-NVAPI/DLSS, Gamescope

Phoronix - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 17:35
Lutris 0.5.9-beta1 is out this Sunday as a rather significant update to this open-source Linux game manager. With this new version there are many new features for this centralized game launcher...

Use the Linux terminal to see what files are on your computer

opensource.com - Sun, 08/01/2021 - 15:00

To list files on a computer with a graphical interface, you usually open a file manager (Files on Linux, Finder on MacOS, Windows Explorer on Windows), and look at the files.

To list files in a terminal, you use the ls command to list all files in the current directory. The pwd commands tells you what directory you're currently in.


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