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There are roughly 40 Linux and open source terms that you should know. - BollyInside  BollyInside

Raspberry Pi 4 Graphics Driver Update Improves 4K Output  Tom's Hardware

Best Way to Install Node.js and NPM on Rocky Linux 8 or AlmaLinux  H2S Media

Become a Linux Samurai in 10 Easy Steps - BollyInside  BollyInside

Operating Systems & Productivity Software Publishing Global Market Report 2021 Featuring Microsoft; Apple Inc; Linux; Ubuntu and Oracle - ResearchAndMarkets.com  Yahoo Finance

Earlier this week Amazon introduced Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" powered EC2 cloud instances and marks their first x86-based sixth-generation offerings that follow their "M6g" Graviton2 instances launched last year. Curious about the "M6i" Ice Lake performance with AWS, here are a number of benchmarks looking at the performance and value of the new M6i instances compared to former Intel M5 instances as well as Amazon's own M6g Graviton2 instances.

Windows is a hindrance. Linux is the epitome of liberation! DistroTube has a video - BollyInside  BollyInside

AMD has launched the Infinity Hub as their newest "open-source portal"...

AlmaLinux is moving forward as a CentOS Linux alternative, and is now available on Azure Marketplace - BollyInside  BollyInside

Pine64's PineNote e-ink tablet has pen input and runs Linux - BollyInside  BollyInside

The market for Linux operating systems is expanding as a result of the spread of COVID-19 - BollyInside  BollyInside

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt continues working on some important performance fixes for the GNOME desktop...

To mitigate the risk, Qualys scans Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS on Red Hat OpenShift - Linux News  BollyInside

Why does my time change when I connect to the net? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

AMD and Valve are working together to improve the ACPI CPUFreq driver on Linux to improve gaming performance. - BollyInside  BollyInside

In 2021, a case for Linux - Linux News  BollyInside

The stat command, included in the GNU coreutils package, provides a variety of metadata, including file size, inode location, access permissions and SELinux context, and creation and modification times, about files and filesystems. It's a convenient way to gather information that you usually need several different commands to acquire.

Installing stat on Linux

On Linux, you probably already have the stat command installed because it's part of a core utility package that's generally bundled with Linux distributions by default.

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Work continues on getting the Broadcom VC4 kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver into shape for being able to support 4K display outputs at 60Hz...

When someone is new to contributing to open source, the best place to start is often beginner-friendly bugs and issues. But before they can do that, they have to be able to find those kinds of issues. As a member of an open source project, there's a lot you can do to help beginners find a way to contribute. 

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The eBPF Linux effort, which is cross-functional, now has its own foundation - BollyInside  BollyInside