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Windows vs Linux: 5 Reasons Why Windows Is Better Than Linux  Fossbytes

Launched last November was the Raspberry Pi 400 as a Raspberry Pi Keyboard Computer with effectively a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC embedded within the keyboard and attached to a large aluminum block for cooling. It's a great little device and beginning with Linux 5.14 looks like it should be playing fine with the mainline kernel...

Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400  Phoronix

Last year Intel detailed Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) as a new means of better protecting virtual machines with hardware-assisted isolation between VMs as well as from the VMM/hypervisor. Shortly after that Intel began posting TDX enablement patches and that work has continued while is still ongoing...

Intel Publishes Latest TDX Support Patches For Linux  Phoronix

IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee  AiThority

Extended Platform for IoT Linux Devices  ELE Times

Modern developers are highly technical, opinionated, passionate, community-focused, driven, polyglot, and most importantly, empowered decision-makers. Today, developers have a say in the products being built and the tools and technologies used to build them. Most importantly, time is precious, and developers and project managers can always benefit from great efficiency. To attain great efficiency, though, you must understand the software lifecycle, and how it can be organized and manipulated.

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A continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is an anchor for every DevOps initiative. The CI/CD pipeline breaks down traditional silos and enables development and operations teams to collaborate throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Better yet, moving to DevOps and a CI/CD pipeline can help your organization deliver software more securely at a higher velocity.

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Most people should be able to install FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 very easily using the installer. The FreeDOS installer asks a few questions, then takes care of the rest—including making space for FreeDOS and making the system bootable.

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The post Best CentOS Alternative Distributions (Desktop and Server) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

On 31st December 2021, the CentOS project makes the shift to CentOS Stream – a rolling release that will serve as the upstream version for future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Sadly,

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Smart SUSE Linux Enterprise Server shifts the compatibility goalposts  TechCentral

The independently-developed "Crocus" driver providing a Mesa Gallium3D implementation for Intel Gen4 "i965" through Gen7 "Haswell" graphics has now been merged into Mesa 21.2 for ultimately aiming to improve the open-source OpenGL support for these aging Intel integrated graphics generations...

After several weeks worth of 5.13-rc releases where there were more changes than Linus Torvalds would like to see, Linux 5.13-rc6 is out now and it's on the smaller side while panning out nicely for this later stage of kernel development...

Linux 5.13-rc6 Released With The Kernel Cycle Smoothing Out  Phoronix

Announced last year was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin to focus on improving the Wayland support more rapidly and incorporating other modern technologies. KWinFT has been making progress on advancing its code-base while in recent months it was seemingly more quiet. However, it turns out KWinFT is alive and well and has been going through some code refactoring while preparing for the next wave of feature work...

Intel updates Linux with support for Sapphire Rapids' in-package HBM2e memory  TechSpot

Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a Masters in Computer Science  About Chromebooks

Linux on Chromebooks Archives  About Chromebooks

How To Use Column Command In Linux With 10 Examples?  Fossbytes