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Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2021: Leading Player Analysis, Global Market Size with COVID-19 Update By 2025  The Bisouv Network

How to create a VirtualBox virtual machine backup on a Linux host  TechRepublic

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs With Up To 40 Cores  Phoronix

Intel today is introducing the 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" Xeon Scalable processors that top out with the Xeon Platinum 8380 offering 40 cores with a 2.3GHz base frequency and 3.0GHz all-core turbo while having a 270 Watt TDP and launching for ~$8099 USD. Here are more details on the Intel Ice Lake Xeon Scalable line-up.

Linux System Engineer - Midrand - R370k PA at e-Merge IT Recruitment  IT-Online

Over the past two years we have seen a lot of Intel Linux kernel graphics driver work in preparing to support Intel discrete graphics cards. That work is still ongoing even for the DG1 graphics card that has been sampling to customers while Linux 5.13 will take things another step forward this summer...

Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory  Phoronix

Create Android Studio Linux Desktop Shortcut and Command-Line launcher  H2S Media

While Skylake was introduced a half-decade ago already, Intel's open-source engineers aren't done relentlessly optimizing for it and subsequent 14nm processors. Hitting the GCC 11 open-source compiler today was an optimization for benefiting Skylake through the likes of Cascade Lake with some possible performance benefits...

How to install Basemark GPU Benchmark on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux  H2S Media

Arch Linux Now Comes With Easier to Use Guided Installer  MUO - MakeUseOf

Computer Pioneer “Shells” Brings the Future of Computing to the Masses Through Its New Virtual Platform  Business Wire

Newer Gigabyte motherboards may soon enjoy a new Linux driver for exposing component temperatures...

WMI Linux Temperature Driver Being Worked On For Gigabyte Motherboards  Phoronix

The KDE project and the open-source Linux community has been in a sticky situation with The Qt Company having moved Qt 5.15 LTS to its commercial-only phase while most free software hasn't even been ported yet to Qt 6 let alone a number of modules and other features still missing from the Qt 6 tool-kit. So until the KDE project has fully transitioned to using the Qt 6 tool-kit, the project has taken up maintaining their own collection of Qt 5.15 patches...

The xf86-input-libinput driver that is used for leveraging the libinput input handling library on X.Org Server systems has reached the version 1.0 milestone...

PulseAudio 15 Lands mSBC Codec Support To Enable Bluetooth Wideband Speech  Phoronix

While PipeWire is being increasingly looked at by desktop Linux distributions as the future of audio/video stream handling on the Linux desktop, aside from Fedora most Linux distributions are so far being cautious in replacing PulseAudio. In any event, PulseAudio is showing no signs of letting up and continues seeing new feature development...

Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you're not afraid to try new ideas. Part of the price of innovation, though, is that you're likely to make a mess along the way. Files get renamed, moved, removed, changed, and cut into pieces. New files are introduced. Temporary files that you don't intend to track take up residence in your working directory.

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Learning to code involves learning both the programming logic and the syntax of a specific programming language. When I took my first programming class in college, the language taught was C++. The first code example, the basic "Hello World" program, looked like the example below.

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