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Wine-Staging 6.4 Released With 686 Patches Rebased Against Upstream

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 18:13
Building off Friday's release of Wine 6.4 is now Wine-Staging 6.4 with an extra 686 patches atop this code-base for allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux...

Lenovo Continues Improving Their Linux Support Down To The Hardware Sensors

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:30
One of the great Linux hardware milestones of 2020 was Lenovo beginning to offer Linux pre-loads on their desktops/laptops with the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu. But it's been great just not for having another major OEM offering Linux pre-loads but because they have also been engaging directly on Linux support improvements both through their engineers and at partners like Red Hat. That upstream support work has continued nicely...

Learn how file input and output works in C

opensource.com - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:02

If you want to learn input and output in C, start by looking at the stdio.h include file. As you might guess from the name, that file defines all the standard ("std") input and output ("io") functions.

The first stdio.h function that most people learn is the printf function to print formatted output. Or the puts function to print a simple string. Those are great functions to print information to the user, but if you want to do more than that, you'll need to explore other functions.


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6 things to know about using WebAssembly on Firefox

opensource.com - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:01

WebAssembly is a portable execution format that has drawn a lot of interest due to its ability to execute applications in the browser at near-native speed. By its nature, WebAssembly has some special properties and limitations. However, by combining it with other technologies, completely new possibilities arise, especially related to gaming in the browser.

This article describes the concepts, possibilities, and limitations of running WebAssembly on Firefox.


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GitOps vs. DevOps: What's the difference?

opensource.com - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 15:00

If you work with technology, you are probably familiar with DevOps. Although DevOps is quite hard to describe in a few words, these Opensource.com articles can give you more information:


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LFCA: Understanding Linux Operating System – Part 1

Tecmint - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 14:11
The post LFCA: Understanding Linux Operating System – Part 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new pre-professional IT certification known as the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA). This is a new entry-level certification that focuses on testing fundamental IT concepts such as

The post LFCA: Understanding Linux Operating System – Part 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The Reverse-Engineered Corsair PSU Linux Driver Continues To Be Improved Upon

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:00
Added for Linux 5.11 was an independently-developed, reverse-engineered Corsair power supply driver for the company's desktop PSUs supporting their USB-based "LINK" interface for exposing voltage, temperature, current, and Wattage under Linux. This open-source "corsair-psu" driver has continued maturing as well since being mainlined...

Linux 5.12-rc3 Kernel Released

Phoronix - Mon, 03/15/2021 - 06:12
Following the emergency Linux 5.12-rc2 kernel release nine days ago, the Linux 5.12-rc3 is out today as a more pleasant release candidate that is back on the usual Sunday release regiment...

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