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How to Download and Install Spotify on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Two fixes were queued this week into the Linux kernel's power management "linux-next" branch that could help improve the power management behavior for some devices as up to now the Linux kernel was not properly following the ACPI specification...

Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources  Phoronix

Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources  Phoronix

Microsoft Edge 91 will be the first to support syncing on Linux  Ghacks Technology News

A small but measurable and seemingly widespread performance optimization is currently being buttoned up for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa to benefit latest-generation Gen12/Xe Graphics...

For those running Linux MD RAID10 arrays you may have found the performance around discard requests such as when running MKFS and FSTRIM operations to be rather slow... Well, with Linux 5.13 it will be lightning fast...

Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling  Phoronix

Google's open-source SwiftShader has been supporting a software-based Vulkan implementation for some time, building off its prior OpenGL / GLES and D3D9 support. While SwiftShader's Vulkan implementation has received heavy investment and attention from Google, it turns out Mesa's Lavapipe software implementation is beginning to pull ahead...

In C++, reading and writing to files can be done by using I/O streams in conjunction with the stream operators >> and <<. When reading or writing to files, those operators are applied to an instance of a class representing a file on the hard drive. This stream-based approach has a huge advantage: From a C ++ perspective, it doesn't matter what you are reading or writing to, whether it's a file, a database, the console, or another PC you are connected to over the network.

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Many developers wonder why they should care about service mesh. It's a question I'm asked often in my presentations at developer meetups, conferences, and hands-on workshops about microservices development with cloud-native architecture. My answer is always the same: "As long as you want to simplify your microservices architecture, it should be running on Kubernetes."

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There are a lot of well-known open source applications used in web design, but there are also many great tools that are not as popular. I thought I'd challenge myself to find some obscure options on the chance I might find something useful.

Open source offers a wealth of options, so it's no surprise that I found 10 new applications that I now consider indispensable to my work.

Bulma

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Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2020 Global Leading Players, Industry Updates, Future Growth, Business Prospects, Forthcoming Developments and Future Investments by Forecast to 2026  The Bisouv Network

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As a Linux system administrator, you will be tasked with ensuring the smooth flow of all IT operations in your organization. Given that some IT operations are intertwined, a systems administrator usually wears many

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Intel's latest addition to Mesa 21.1 with their "ANV" Vulkan driver is... A null hardware layer...

Besides Valheim, there hasn't been much in the way of native Linux game releases recently to really get excited about with much of the activity these days being through Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. But in April there will be at least two high profile native Linux game releases...

Total War: Rome Remastered + Metro Exodus Coming To Linux In April  Phoronix

Microsoft Edge for Linux Getting Sign-In and Sync Support  WebProNews

Microsoft Edge for Linux Getting Sign-In and Sync Support  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds weighs in on Rust language in the Linux kernel  Ars Technica