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3 Ways to install 1Password manager on Ubuntu 20.04/21.04 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Qualcomm reveals tiny Linux-driven 5G NR chipset for IoT  LinuxGizmos.com

NVIDIA Linux users have been looking forward to the upcoming 470 driver series for better Wayland support but for those running GeForce GTX 600/700 series graphics cards, it will mean the end of the line for new feature driver releases with their proprietary driver stack...

Tuxedo Infinity Book Pro 14 Linux laptop launched with 3K LTPS LCD display option and Tiger Lake-U CPUs  Notebookcheck.net

One month ago the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel when it was revealed the university researchers were trying to intentionally submit bugs into the kernel via new patches as "hypocrite commits" as part of a questionable research paper. Linux kernel developers have finally finished reviewing all UMN.edu patches to address problematic merges to the kernel and also cleaning up / fixing their questionable patches...

Linux 5.13 Reverts + Fixes The Problematic University of Minnesota Patches  Phoronix

How to Add an Application to the Dock in elementary OS  It's FOSS

Linux on Chromebooks set to finally exit beta soon  TechRadar

AMD submitted another set of feature changes to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of this summer's Linux 5.14 cycle...

AMD "Beige Goby" GPU Support Targeting Linux 5.14 Inclusion  Phoronix

AMD "Beige Goby" GPU Support Targeting Linux 5.14 Inclusion  Phoronix

ARM server vendor Ampere Computing has been working on an SSIF BMC-side driver for the Aspeed ASTC2500 baseboard management controller that they are looking to upstream in the Linux kernel...

ASpeed AST2500 SSIF BMC Driver Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

This is the tenth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of these versions have been out for a while. Python 3.9 was first released in 2020 with cool new features that are still underused. Here are three of them.

Adding dictionaries

Say you have a dictionary with "defaults," and you want to update it with parameters. Before Python 3.9, the best option was to copy the defaults dictionary and then use the .update() method.

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Chrome OS support for Linux apps will exit beta in a few weeks  Developer Tech

It's hard to find a game that combines the difficulty of, say, Dark Souls with the elegance of Conway's Game of Life. In a 1962 paper, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó came up with just such a game, which he called the Busy Beaver Game (BBG).

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The post How to Install Latest XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Xfce is a modern, open-source, and lightweight desktop environment for Linux systems. It also works well on many other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD plus several others. It is fast

The post How to Install Latest XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel's open-source team maintaining their graphics compiler (IGC) have issued a big update this week...

Linux Software Market is Booming Worldwide with Key Players: Google, Microsoft, Amazon – The Shotcaller  The Shotcaller

PipeWire continues to be on an upward trajectory for managing Linux audio/video streams and becoming a viable replacement now to PulseAudio and JACK on the Linux desktop...