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11 Linux Distros That Still Support 32-Bit Architecture  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ampere is going public today with a strategy and road-map update where they have now publicly acknowledged they are developing their own in-house server CPU cores.

JingPad A1: A US$549 2-in-1 convertible with the first Linux-based tablet OS  Notebookcheck.net

News Release Wind River Delivers Cybersecurity and Anti-tamper Protections for Mission-Critical Intelligent Systems  WIND

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS / 20.10 / 21.04 Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake  Phoronix

While there is more to consider when choosing a Linux distribution than just the out-of-the-box performance, for those curious about the performance of recent Ubuntu releases for running with Intel's new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" processors, here are some benchmarks showing how the performance has improved from Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS to Ubuntu 20.10 and now the recent Ubuntu 21.04 Linux release.

Contrast Security Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to Drive Security Best Practices Around Cloud Native Architectures and Open Source Software  PR Newswire India

Contrast Security Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to Drive Security Best Practices Around Cloud Native Architectures and Open Source Software  PRNewswire

Contrast Security Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to Drive Security Best Practices Around Cloud Native Architectures and Open Source Software  Yahoo Finance

The new study made on Linux-based Set Top Box market includes vital information | Market Size Analysis 2021-2028 – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current

1Password Rolls Out Official Support and a Desktop App for Linux  PCMag

1Password Rolls Out Official Support and a Desktop App for Linux  PCMag UK

While the Nintendo Wii U game console is approaching a decade since launch and has already been discontinued for several years, work towards a mainline Linux kernel driver for properly supporting the Wii U gamepad continues...

Wii U Gamepad Driver For Linux Remains In The Works  Phoronix

A small patch merged to X.Org Server Git enables support for MIT-SHM shared memory pixmaps with XWayland...

POCL 1.7 is out as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" that aims to effectively allow OpenCL to run well on various CPU architectures as well as other targets like OpenCL over NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HSA...

1Password finally rolls out support for Linux computers  HT Tech

Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database trusted by thousands of companies around the globe for its scalability and high availability that does not compromise performance. Contributing to such a widely used distributed system may seem daunting, so this article aims to provide you an easy entry point.

There are good reasons to contribute to Cassandra, such as:

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For decades, enterprises have developed business-critical applications on various platforms, including physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud environments. The one thing these applications have in common across industries is they need to be continuously available (24x7x365) to guarantee stability, reliability, and performance, regardless of demand. Therefore, every enterprise must be responsible for the high costs of maintaining an infrastructure (e.g., CPU, memory, disk, networking, etc.) even if actual resource utilization is less than 50%.

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This is the eighth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Python 3.7 was first released in 2018, and even though it has been out for a few years, many of the features it introduced are underused and pretty cool. Here are three of them.

Postponed evaluation of annotations

In Python 3.7, as long as the right __future__ flags are activated, annotations are not evaluated during runtime:

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