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Linux: Stable Debian 11 'bullseye' arrives with five years of support  ZDNet

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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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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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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How well do Gigabyte Motherboards work now days? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

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...

Pine64 announces $399 e-reader with Linux and pen support  XDA Developers

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.

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...

EasyWSL turns Linux docker images into a Windows 10 WSL distro  BleepingComputer

How to Create Command Shortcuts with Aliases in Linux  Tom's Hardware

If you have noticed grep regressing performance-wise in recent releases, you may want to upgrade to GNU Grep 3.7 released this weekend as it fixes a nasty performance regression...

OpenRazer 3.1 is now available as the newest version of this open-source, third-party solution for enabling Razer devices under Linux...

Computers are good at automation, but not everyone knows how to make automation work. It's a real luxury, though, to be able to schedule a task for a computer at a specific time and then forget about it. Maybe you have a file to upload or download at a specific time, or you need to process a batch of files that don't yet exist but are guaranteed to exist by a certain time or a setting that needs monitoring, or maybe you just need a friendly reminder to pick up bread and butter on the way home from work.

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Russian ArmSoC now ships on Russian PCs running Russian Linux • The Register  Illinoisnewstoday.com

Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed  Phoronix

Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Debian 11 'Bullseye' Linux distro is here  BetaNews

Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology  Help Net Security

Debian 11 "Bullseye" has been officially released now after just over two years in development...