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DigiKam as the popular open-source image organizer is out with its version 7.3 feature release...

Linux Mint 20.2 is a bit more insistent about updating but not as annoying as Windows or Mac, team promises  The Register

Canonical and Microsoft: Securing, strengthening, and simplifying your Linux Stack  Microsoft - Channel 9

OpenBLAS as the popular open-source high performance BLAS/LAPACK implementation has seen a new release with more CPU/architecture specific work as well as some new common optimizations...

WinMagic MFA, Encryption Solution for Linux Endpoint Devices Proves It Can Enable US Federal Agencies to Meet Biden's Cybersecurity Deadline  PR Web

Triple buffering and deep color support are two of the features still being worked on for GNOME by Ubuntu maker Canonical...

New Linux kernel 5.14 release candidate is out: Here's what's inside  ZDNet

1. New Linux kernel 5.14 release candidate is out: Here's what's inside  ZDNet
2. Linux kernel sheds legacy IDE support, but driver-dominated 5.14 rc1 still grows  The Register
3. Linux 5.14 kernel: New and exciting features coming to the release  TechRepublic
4. Linux Kernel Nixes IDE Support In the Latest 5.14 Release Candidate  Tom's Hardware
5. New Linux release candidate cuts thousands of lines of unnecessary code  TechRadar
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Microsoft has its own Linux distro called CBL-Mariner  BetaNews

5 Things Pop!_OS Linux Does Better Than Windows 11  Fossbytes

Mesa's V3DV Vulkan driver for newer Broadcom VideoCore graphics IP that is most notably used by the newer Raspberry Pi single board computers now has support for geometry shaders as its latest feature...

Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts  The Register

The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is an open-source office suite that is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS users. Freely distributed under the terms of AGPLv3, it combines three editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

It's HOT! I suppose I can't complain too much about living in paradise, but when my wife and I moved to Hawaii last fall, I didn't really think too much about the weather. Don't get me wrong, the weather is lovely pretty much all the time, and we keep our windows open 24/7, but that means it is pretty warm in the house right now in the middle of summer.

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Some data is meant to be temporary, stored in RAM while an application is running, and then forgotten. Some data, however, is meant to be persistent. It's stored on a hard drive for later use, and it's often the stuff that a user cares about the most. For programmers, it's very common to write code to read and write files, but every language handles this task a little differently. This article demonstrates how to handle data files with Python.

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Best Linux distros of 2021 for beginners, mainstream and advanced users  TechRadar

Linux 5.14 kernel: New and exciting features coming to the release  TechRepublic

Process_Reap Syscall Proposed For Linux To More Quickly Reclaim Memory Under Pressure  Phoronix

While there are the likes of OOMD / systemd-oomd gaining acceptance as a daemon for Linux systems to deal with killing off processes and other behavior under system memory (RAM) pressure, there still is an issue of the time it takes until the memory is reclaimed by those dying processes. Google engineers at the end of June proposed "process_reap" as a new system call to help in that memory recovery...

XML is a hierarchical markup language. It uses opening and closing tags to define data. It's used to store and exchange data, and because of its extreme flexibility, it's used for everything from documentation to graphics.

Here's a sample XML document:

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