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One of the best and most practical use-cases for sandboxed Linux apps via Flatpak or Snaps is certainly web browsers. There has been unofficial Firefox Flatpaks offered to this point but it's looking like better support for a Flatpak'ed Firefox could be coming down the pipe soon...

Manjaro 18.1 "Juhraya" is now available as the newest six-month feature release to this Arch Linux based operating system...

While the NVIDIA 435 series is now stable, for those sticking to the previous NVIDIA 430 driver series that is their current "long-lived" driver branch, a new version is available...

Huawei Just Started Selling Laptops With Deepin Linux Pre-Installed  Forbes

Some of the best laptops on the market are now shipping with Deepin Linux pre-installed.

Arch Linux-based Manjaro 18.1.0 'Juhraya' now available with GNOME, KDE, or Xfce  BetaNews

Manjaro may have lofty goals of becoming a successful company, but let's be honest — users of the Linux-based operating system don't really care about that.

Habanero Qualcomm IPQ4019/IPQ4029 SoM Brings 802.11ac Wave2 WiFi to Linux Gateways and Routers  CNX Software

8devices has launched Habanero IPQ4019 / IPQ4029 systems-on-module with 802.11ac Wave2 WiFi 5 connectivity, and corresponding hardware development ...

Huawei Reportedly Shipping Cheaper MateBook Laptops With Linux in China  Beebom

Huawei Matebook laptops in China are now being offered with Linux-powered variants running a debian-based distro called 'Deepin'.

‘Far Cry New Dawn’ Never Released For Linux, But It’s Matching Windows 10 Performance Anyway  Forbes

A stunning new benchmark proves Linux can achieve performance parity with Windows – even for a title that never released on the platform.

Inflight: APEXEXPO2019: IdeaNova Technologies introduces PlayReady server for Linux  HMG Aerospace

IdeaNova Technologies is to host Microsoft PlayReady DRM server on Linux, allowing customers to deploy Inplay PlayReady License Servers the same ...

Object-relational mapping (ORM) makes life easier for application developers, in no small part because it lets you interact with a database in a language you may know (such as Python) instead of raw SQL queries. SQLAlchemy is a Python ORM toolkit that provides access to SQL databases using Python. It is a mature ORM tool that adds the benefit of model relationships, a powerful query construction paradigm, easy serialization, and much more.

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In electrical engineering, a transient fault is defined as an error condition that vanishes after the power is disconnected and restored. This is also a workaround many of us unconsciously use when we forcefully power our physical devices off and on when they're performing poorly or frozen on a blue crash screen filled with gibberish.

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Huawei selling MateBook laptops with Linux preinstalled to consumers in China  TechRepublic

For a long time, I thought all the files I saw on GitLab and GitHub with an .md extension were written in a file type exclusively for developers. That changed a few weeks ago when I started using Markdown. It quickly became the most important tool in my daily work.

Markdown makes my life easier. I just need to add a few symbols to what I'm already writing and, with the help of a browser extension or an open source program, I can transform my text into a variety of commonly used formats such as ODT, email (more on that later), PDF, and EPUB.

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Zabbix is a free, open-source, popular and feature-rich IT infrastructure monitoring software developed using PHP language. It is used to monitor networks, servers, applications, services as well as cloud resources. It also supports monitoring...

How to cleanly remove a package from a Debian-based distribution  TechRepublic

When you uninstall an application from Linux, make sure you're doing it in such a way as to remove both configuration files and dependencies.

Microsoft releases Windows 10 20H1 Build 18980 with more Cortana and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) improvements  BetaNews

Recent Windows 10 Insider builds from the 20H1 branch (set for release next spring) have introduced quite a few welcome new features, and today's new flight, ...

AMD Navi 14 Workstation Graphics Cards Discovered In Linux Driver Update  Hot Hardware

A patch for Linux hints at AMD getting ready to release workstation cards built around its Navi GPU architecture.

Two years ago NVIDIA announced the NVDLA as an open-source hardware project with this "NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator" to be a free and open architecture for inference accelerators. NVIDIA has now expanded the open-source software ecosystem around NVDLA...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmarks On 11 Linux Distributions  Phoronix

Now that BIOS updates over the past month have resolved the early boot issue with Ryzen 3000 processors and thus the new AMD CPUs playing nicely with ...

Now that BIOS updates over the past month have resolved the early boot issue with Ryzen 3000 processors and thus the new AMD CPUs playing nicely with modern Linux distributions, here is the long-awaited benchmark comparison of the Ryzen 9 3900X + X570 system benchmarked across an array of different Linux distributions... In fact, 11 Linux OS releases in total were tested on this high-end 12-core / 24-thread desktop processor.