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How to Download and Install Figma on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Virglrenderer that is part of the open-source Linux effort to provide accelerated OpenGL to guest virtual machines has been enjoying some new micro-optimizations...

Going along with the recent releases of FreeBSD 13.0, DragonFlyBSD 6.0, and OpenBSD 6.9, NetBSD 9.2 is now available as the latest feature release of this BSD operating system...

Linux Software Market: Size, Share, Analysis, Regional Outlook and Forecast 2021  Business-newsupdate.com

Fedora 35 is looking to replace the unmaintained SDL 1.2 packages with using the sdl12-compat compatibility layer for better handling of vintage Linux games by this upcoming distribution release...

Fedora 35 Aims For Better Experience Running Vintage Linux Games  Phoronix

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing

deepin Linux 20.2.1 gets Debian 10.9 base — switch from Microsoft Windows 10 today!  BetaNews

Most: The Linux Pager You Never Knew You Needed  MUO - MakeUseOf

While we are sure to see only more AI accelerator drivers introduced to the Linux kernel over the coming years, the open-source driver situation for the Linux kernel is increasingly becoming a fragmented mess already and disagreements among kernel developers continue to be reignited over the mainlining process and the handling of these drivers...

The Growing Number Of AI Accelerator Drivers Reignites Linux Kernel Driver Debate  Phoronix

With the new dav1d 0.9 AV1 decoder release bringing AVX2 Assembly for higher bit depth videos, the performance improvements are very pronounced with modern Intel and AMD systems...

Making some rounds this weekend is the "Lima" project. No, not to be confused with the open-source Arm Mali reverse-engineered project of the same name, but rather an effort to be like an unofficial "macOS subsystem for Linux."..

Lima: Another Way Of Spinning Up Simple, Integrated Linux VMs on macOS  Phoronix

JingPad A1 Linux tablet launches June 15th via Indiegogo  Geeky Gadgets

The First Release Candidate of Rocky Linux is Here — And We're Excited  HPCwire

Getting from one place to another over a computer network can be a tricky thing. Aside from knowing the right address and opening the right ports, there's the question of security. For Linux, SSH is a popular default, and while there's a lot you can do with SSH it's still "just" a secure shell (that's what SSH stands for, in fact.) A broader protocol for encrypted traffic is VPN, which creates a unique, virtual private network between two points.

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This is the sixth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.5 was first released in 2015, and even though it has been out for a long time, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them.

The @ operator

The @ operator is unique in Python in that there are no objects in the standard library that implement it! It was added for use in mathematical packages that have matrices.

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The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux Network Security – Part 19 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In an ever-connected world, network security is increasingly becoming one of the areas where organizations invest a great deal of time and resources. This is because a company’s network is the backbone of any

The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux Network Security – Part 19 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.