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Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:00
While Fedora currently allows restarting of system services automatically when upgrading the packages for those services, there hasn't been that capability for user services to automatically restart as part of RPM package upgrades. But now approved for Fedora 35 is that change...

Mediatek MT8167 DRM Driver Support Coming For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 19:55
The Mediatek Direct Rendering Manager driver updates slated for Linux 5.15 were sent out this weekend...

Slackware 15.0 Coming Soon With RC1 Released

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:26
Not only did Debian 11 make it out this weekend, but Slackware 15 is finally up to its release candidate phase as the next major installment of this long-running Linux distribution...

Maui 2 Released For Open-Source UI Framework

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:18
The Maui open-source user interface framework and Maui Apps are out with a new release for those interested in this framework and applications that are designed to work well cross-device as well as largely working cross-platform too...

Kdenlive 21.08 Released For KDE's Video Editor

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:01
Kdenlive 21.08 is now available as the newest feature upgrade to KDE's non-linear video editor...

What was your first programming language?

opensource.com - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 15:01

We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell about who suggested it or what prompted you to learn it. If you were paid to do so, and what happened next. Then there's a lot it says about your age and what was going on in the world.

Let's hear a little bit about these 24 technologists' stories.

What was your first programming language? BASIC

Were you paid to learn it? Nope.

Did you choose it? Not really.


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Parse command-line arguments with argparse in Python

opensource.com - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 15:00

There are several third-party libraries for command-line argument parsing, but the standard library module argparse is no slouch either.

Without adding any more dependencies, you can write a nifty command-line tool with useful argument parsing.

Argument parsing in Python

When parsing command-line arguments with argparse, the first step is to configure an ArgumentParser object. This is often done at the global module scope since merely configuring the parser has no side effects.


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13 Basic Cat Command Examples in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 13:54
The post 13 Basic Cat Command Examples in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The cat (short for “concatenate“) command is one of the most frequently used commands in Linux/Unix-like operating systems. cat command allows us to create single or multiple files, view content of a file, concatenate

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10 Useful du (Disk Usage) Commands to Find Disk Usage of Files and Directories

Tecmint - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 12:05
The post 10 Useful du (Disk Usage) Commands to Find Disk Usage of Files and Directories first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Linux “du” (Disk Usage) is a standard Unix/Linux command, used to check the information of disk usage of files and directories on a machine. The du command has many parameter options that can

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Linux 5.14-rc6 Released After Another Good Week

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 08:16
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.14-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 5.14 that should go gold around the end of August...

SilverStone TP04 M.2 SSD Cooling

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 02:41
With proper heatsinks becoming all the more important with speedy PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSDs to avoid thermal throttling, SilverStone has been among the vendors offering after-market aluminum heatsinks designed for M.2 2280 drives. The SilverStone TP04 is a simple but effective aluminum alloy SSD cooling kit for about $17 USD.

Apple M1 PCIe Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 08/16/2021 - 00:16
While Linux 5.12 saw initial support merged for the Apple M1, it was quite the basic support with more robust support still to come. Besides the graphics support being a large work-in-progress, one of the areas now coming about is the new PCI Express driver that is necessary for supporting more functionality of this driver...

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