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WMI Linux Temperature Driver Being Worked On For Gigabyte Motherboards

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 19:24
Newer Gigabyte motherboards may soon enjoy a new Linux driver for exposing component temperatures...

KDE Now Maintaining Their Own Set of Patches For Qt 5

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 18:07
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...

Libinput X.Org Driver 1.0 Released Following A License Mixup

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 17:51
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 - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:30
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...

Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:02

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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Teach anyone how to code with Hedy

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:01

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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Use Apache Superset for open source business intelligence reporting

opensource.com - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 15:00

They say software is eating the world, but it's equally clear that open source is taking over software.

Simply put, open source is a superior approach for building and distributing software because it provides important guarantees around how software can be discovered, tried, operated, collaborated on, and packaged. For those reasons, it is not surprising that it has taken over most of the modern data stack: Infrastructure, databases, orchestration, data processing, AI/ML, and beyond.


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Announcing Red Hat regional leadership appointments

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 12:00

Earlier this year we announced changes to our global sales leadership, and as Larry Stack takes on the role of executive vice president of Global Sales and Services, we’re excited to announce changes to our regional leadership team.

Linux Finally Has A Tool For Encryption Setup With Older Logitech Wireless Keyboards

Phoronix - Tue, 04/06/2021 - 12:00
For older Logitech keyboards that operate on a 27MHz radio frequency they may have a new lease on life as well as being more secure thanks to a new Linux utility...

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