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Microsoft has its own Linux distribution.  Fudzilla

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has unanimously approved a large number of new Fedora 35 this week...

The open-source Meson build system that continues to be increasingly used by open-source projects and other software is out with version 0.59, which continues tacking on more features...

There are many ways to get applications onto a Linux system. Some, like Flatpak and containers, are new. Others, like DEB and RPM, are classic formats that have withstood the test of time.

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If you use Python, you probably install a lot of Python applications. Some are tools you just want to try out. Others are tried and true applications you use every day, so you install them on every computer you use. In either situation, it can be useful to run your Python applications in virtual environments to keep them and their dependencies separate from one another to avoid versioning conflicts and to keep them from the rest of your system to improve security.

This is where pipx comes into the picture.

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Get RedHat EX294 Dumps - Pass In First Attempt  The African Exponent

The post How to Install Latest PHP 8.0 on Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

PHP 8.0 was officially released back on November 26, 2020, and is a major update to PHP 7.4. At the time of publishing this guide, the latest stable release is PHP 8.0.8, which was

The post How to Install Latest PHP 8.0 on Rocky Linux 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

As Red Hat remains focused on our vision for open hybrid cloud, Red Hat customers, partners and associates are delivering the products and services needed to revolutionize the cloud. We are proud to have a strong open source ecosystem and team of innovators standing by us through it all. Together, we have received more than 30 accolades from industry publications and organizations in the last five months.

Ultra App Kit is a new cross-platform, user interface toolkit option focused on satisfying the needs of game engines/tooling but also covering needs for other desktop GUI applications...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.14-rc2 as the latest weekly test candidate of the maturing Linux 5.14 kernel...

Out this Sunday is the latest update to GNU Binutils as this important collection of binary utilities common to Linux and other platforms...

Install Teamviewer on Debian 11 or 10 using command terminal  H2S Media

With the alpha release of the Godot 4.0 open-source game engine approaching, a blog post today detailed the current graphics API support plans around this major game engine update...

The end of open source?  TechCrunch

Why the Steam Deck won’t flop like Valve’s Steam Machines  The Verge

Thanks to Canonical's distributed workforce with most of their employees working from home even pre-pandemic and the booming Linux ecosystem, the Ubuntu maker performed very well over 2020 and even grew its headcount back above 500 employees and managed to swing from a loss in 2019 to a profit in 2020...

For those that may have upgraded to an Intel Tiger Lake notebook and making use of the Gen12 Xe Graphics while running a distribution like Ubuntu 21.04, if you are wondering whether upgrading the kernel or Mesa are worthwhile here are some benchmarks...

Early work is underway on Coreboot for AMD's Barcelo as the successor to Lucienne...

Linux 5.15 later this year will bring improvements to the kernel side of Open vSwitch, the open-source virtual multi-layer switch implementation that is commonly used in large virtualized environments...

Patch your Linux, hackers are actively exploiting the “Dirty COW” flaw 2021 Tips  BollyInside