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Pete Townshend, legendary guitar player for British rock band The Who, is well-known for playing suspended chords. Suspended chords add musical tension to a song. For those piano players reading this who (like me) love to play in the key of C, simply play a C major chord (the notes C, E, and G) and replace the E note with either an F or a D. You are now on your way to becoming a British rock star!1

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No matter how much storage space you have, there's always the possibility for it to fill up. On most personal devices, drives get filled up with photos and videos and music, but on servers, it's not unusual for space to diminish due to data in user accounts and log files. Whether you're in charge of managing a multi-user system or just your own laptop, you can check in on disk usage with the du command.

By default, du provides the amount of disk space used in your current directory, as well as the size of each subdirectory:

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Everything you need to know about Linux Proton on the Steam Deck  Dot Esports

An operating system's kernel is one of the most elusive pieces of software out there. It's always there running in the background from the time your system gets turned on. Every user achieves their computing work with the help of the kernel, yet they never interact with it directly. The interaction with the kernel occurs by making system calls or having those calls made on behalf of the user by various libraries or applications that they use daily.

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Industrial Android/Linux mini PC ships with optional HDMI input, DTV tuner, 4G LTE modem  CNX Software

Industrial Android/Linux mini PC ships with optional HDMI input, DTV tuner, 4G LTE modem  CNX Software

Every summer for the past ten years, the Red Hat Toronto office has hosted approximately 9-12 interns for 16-month terms. During the last 15 months, I have been a software engineering intern working on WildFly Elytron, a security framework that ships with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. I hope to shed some light on the specifics of our internship program in Canada and perhaps steer you towards deciding whether a "red hat" would look good on you or someone you know!

Nanotale RPG Moves to Linux and Mac - Gameindustry.com  GameIndustry.com

Google Continues Working On Suspend-Only Swap Spaces For Linux  Phoronix

Google engineers and other parties are interested in being able to create swap spaces on Linux systems that would be reserved just for system suspend/hibernation purposes and not for generic swapping to disk...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is back with another webcast following his update in March that focused on the new Intel Foundry Services, new US fabs, and more. Today's event is "Intel Accelerated" and offering an update on the company's IDM 2.0 process and packaging...

For those making use of Radeon GPUs for H.264 encoding on Linux, the open-source Mesa driver stack for VCN hardware has just merged support for handling H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) / temporal encoding...

Linux 101: How to add directories to your Linux $PATH  TechRepublic

Linux Mint 20.2 arrives: Top desktop Linux keeps improving  ZDNet

1. Linux Mint 20.2 arrives: Top desktop Linux keeps improving  ZDNet
2. How to dual-boot Windows 11 and Linux on your PC  XDA Developers
3. Linux Mint 20.2 is here: Top desktop Linux continues to improve  Texas News Today
4. How to RDP from Windows 7/10/11 to access Linux Mint - Linux Shout  H2S Media
5. Linux: Can it Ever Break Through in the Desktop Market?  Formtek Blog
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WiFiWart Boots Linux, Moves To Next Design Phase  Hackaday

Linux X86 Assembly – How To Make Payload Extraction Easier  Security Boulevard

What's really the best browser for Linux, Windows and Mac?  TechRepublic

It turns out there is actually people running modern versions of the Linux kernel in 2021 that also are using floppy disks...

Linux Regressed Its Floppy Disk Driver - Someone Actually Noticed Just A Few Months Later  Phoronix