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Qt Creator is the Qt framework's default integrated development environment (IDE) and hence the glue between Qt's rich set of libraries and the user. In addition to its basic features such as intelligent code completion, debugging, and project administration, Qt Creator offers a lot of nice features that make software development easier.

In this article, I will highlight some of my favorite Qt Creator features.

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Applications typically include some type of default or "out-of-the-box" state or configuration, as well as some way for users to customize that configuration for their needs.

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Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim.

Don Watkins: What kind of skill set invites you to write your own operating system?

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Microsoft’s Windows dominance in the Desktop PC space has been a thing for decades now and the 35 years old OS — although has made some significant strides in the industry — is undoubted

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The release candidates for OpenZFS 2.1 continue dragging on with Tuesday marking the eighth such test version while bringing Linux 5.13 compatibility and other fixes...

Linux PC hardware manufacturer System76 has released Pop!_OS 21.04 as the newest version of their Ubuntu downstream that also features their new GNOME-based COSMIC desktop...

The x86 platform driver updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel. This area of the kernel principally benefits x86 laptop support on Linux but also has other drivers like around the Intel Speed Select Technology and more...

Laptop Improvements With Linux 5.14 Benefit Lenovo, Dell, Microsoft Surface Devices  Phoronix

As if it matters, your Skylake Chromebook can finally use Linux apps  Chrome Unboxed

Global Linux Software Market 2021 With (COVID-19) Impact Analysis, Industry Demand, Trends, Forecast 2027 – By Market Research Store – The Courier  The Courier

How to scan your RHEL-based Linux servers for outdated libraries with CloudLinux UChecker  TechRepublic

NVIDIA DLSS on Linux is a straightforward magic that brings you closer to Windows than ever before  Illinoisnewstoday.com

AMD-specific code within Linux's KVM virtualization component previously could allow a KVM guest to breakout into the host. This bug persisted in the Linux kernel from late 2020 to March 2021 before being addressed and is the first known issue of such a guest-to-host breakout that didn't also depend upon bugs within user-space components...

AMD EPYC Milan Performance Across 11 Different 2021 Linux Distributions  Phoronix

After looking recently at the FreeBSD 13.0 and DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performance on AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" using a Tyan Transport CX GC68-B8036-LE server, the next round of benchmarking from this server with AMD EPYC 7543 32-core processor was looking at its support (all tested 2021 Linux distributions were running fine on this latest-generation AMD server) and performance across 11 current Linux distribution releases from Arch, CentOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and openSUSE.

REvil ransomware group introduces Linux encryption for VMs  Texas News Today

Linux Kernel 5.13 Officially Released, This Is What's New  LXer

REvil ransomware group deploys Linux encryptor against VMs  TechRadar

REvil ransomware group deploys Linux encryptor against VMs  Techradar

REvil ransomware group deploys Linux encryptor against VMs  TechRadar