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Linux Foundation Announces Free sigstore Signing Service to Confirm Origin and Authenticity of Software  PRNewswire

Industry-Wide Initiative to Support Open Source Security Gains New Commitments  PRNewswire

While Fedora 34 will be out around the end of next month, there are already change proposals being filed for Fedora 35 that will come in the autumn. One of those early changes for that next release cycle is referring to the OS as "Fedora Linux" within its OS release information...

"Fedora Linux" Is The Latest Change Proposed For F35  Phoronix

European Processor Initiative EPAC1.0 RISC-V Core Boots Linux on FPGA  HPCwire

Is openSUSE Leap Ready to Be the New CentOS?  Data Center Knowledge

Open Mainframe Project Kicks Off First Quarter with New Members, Additional COBOL and Linux on Z Resources and Launch of the 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit  PRNewswire

Open Mainframe Project Kicks Off First Quarter with New Members, Additional COBOL and Linux on Z Resources and Launch of the 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit  Monterey County Weekly

Trisquel Linux Wraps Polish and Productivity Into Four User Needs  LinuxInsider.com

Trisquel Linux Wraps Polish and Productivity Into Four User Needs  TechNewsWorld

Arch Linux developers are considering some default enhancements to their Linux distribution that would increase the out-of-the-box performance...

Sylvestre Ledru who is a director at Mozilla by day while also being prolific to Debian/Ubuntu and LLVM/Clang development has managed to get a Rust version of Coreutils packaged and running well enough on Debian...

Just two days after the release of Linux 5.11.4 it has now been succeeded by Linux 5.11.5 and the maintained LTS kernels also saw new releases this morning...

Linux 5.11.5, 5.10.22 Released With Headless AMD Navi 12 SKU Backported  Phoronix

Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs start receiving Linux patches  TechnoSports

European HPC chip boots Linux on an FPGA for the first time  eeNews Europe

How to Update openSUSE Linux System  It's FOSS

I have lived in 100-plus-year-old brick houses for most of my life. They look nice, they are comfortable, and usually, they are not too expensive. However, humidity is high in the winter in my climate, and mold is a recurring problem. A desktop thermometer that displays relative humidity is useful for measuring it, but it does not provide continuous monitoring.

In comes the Raspberry Pi: It is small, inexpensive, and has many sensor options, including temperature and relative humidity. It can collect data around the clock, do some alerting, and forward data for analysis.

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Dictionaries are the Python programming language's way of implementing data structures. A Python dictionary consists of several key-value pairs; each pair maps the key to its associated value.

For example, say you're a teacher who wants to match students' names to their grades. You could use a Python dictionary to map the keys (names) to their associated values (grades).

If you need to find a specific student's grade on an exam, you can access it from your dictionary. This lookup shortcut should save you time over parsing an entire list to find the student's grade.

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Linux Foundation Announces Free sigstore Signing Service to Confirm Origin and Authenticity of Software  DevOps.com