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Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q2 for Linux Driver Released  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Awards IT Training & Certification Scholarships to 500 Diverse Individuals Across the Globe  PRNewswire

REvil ransomware group deploys Linux encryptor against EXSi virtual machines  Security Magazine

Embedded Linux Market Size, Status and Outlook 2021 – Microchip, Siemens, Green Hills Software, Intel, Mitsubishi – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current

Up Your Linux Game with This $19.99 Bundle « The Hookup :: Gadget Hacks  Gadget Hacks

Given the dominance of Linux-based devices from embedded/mobile (Android) through data centers and Linux powering all sorts of equipment, the networking subsystem updates for new Linux kernel merge windows continues to be very lively with new hardware support and never-ending improvements and new features...

In preparing to close out the second quarter, the Intel Media Driver 2021Q2 was released today as the company's open-source stack for supporting GPU-accelerated video encode/decode on Linux...

Intel Media Driver 2021Q2 Focuses On Gen12 Enhancements  Phoronix

Headlining the power management updates for the Linux 5.14 merge window is the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver now being adapted to handle hybrid processors...

The Linux Foundation Announces Registration is Open for Open Source Summit and More Fall Events  thepress.net

The Linux Foundation Announces Registration is Open for Open Source Summit and More Fall Events  PRNewswire

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