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Linux package management with apt

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:02

On Linux, package managers help you handle updates, uninstalls, troubleshooting, and more for the software on your computer. Seth Kenlon wrote about dnf, the command-line package management tool for installing software in RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, and other Linux distros.


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View statistics about your code with Tokei

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:01

Recently, GitHub added a small indicator that shows details about projects, including what programming languages a project uses. Before this, it was hard for new contributors to know this type of information about the projects they were interested in.


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Copy files between Linux and FreeDOS

opensource.com - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 15:00

I run Linux as my primary operating system, and I boot FreeDOS in a virtual machine. Most of the time, I use QEMU as my PC emulator, but sometimes I'll run other experiments with GNOME Boxes (which uses QEMU as a back-end virtual machine) or with VirtualBox.


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3 Best Udemy Python Courses – Go From Zero to Hero

Tecmint - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 13:21
The post 3 Best Udemy Python Courses – Go From Zero to Hero first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Python is often considered to be one of the most powerful, adaptable, and easy-to-learn high-level programming languages for developing websites, operating system components, applications to games and so much more. Today, companies like Amazon,

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10 Best Udemy Web Development Courses in 2021

Tecmint - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:33
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DISCLOSURE: This post includes affiliate links, which means we receive a commission when you make a purchase. Every now and then, we check Udemy out for the most rated courses in different niches to

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Linux 5.14 To Support XMM Fast Hypercalls For Hyper-V On KVM

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:00
With the KVM code set to be merged in the coming weeks for the Linux 5.14 kernel, support for fast XMM hypercalls is coming for its Hyper-V guest support in allowing for some performance benefits...

AMD PSF Control Support Still Awaiting The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 06/24/2021 - 01:45
It's been three months since AMD published a security whitepaper outlining the possibility of a side channel attack with PSF. The Predictive Store Forwarding functionality is new to AMD Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 / EPYC 7003 series) processors and as part of their security analysis they are allowing users the ability to opt-out of using this feature in the name of greater security but the feature still hasn't been picked up for the mainline Linux kernel...

Work-In-Progress RadeonSI+Nine Showing Big Performance Win For Source Engine Games

Phoronix - Wed, 06/23/2021 - 23:27
While Valve has been working on Vulkan-based rendering for Source Engine games by making use of DXVK for translating the game engine's native Direct3D calls to the Vulkan API, with some yet-to-be-merged Mesa patches around Gallium Nine there is much better performance to see with Gallium Nine at least for the RadeonSI driver...

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