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There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  Techradar

There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  TechRadar

How to Use Crontab to Automate Repetitive Tasks in Linux  MakeUseOf

Global Linux Software Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2026  NeighborWebSJ

For those wanting to run a micro-kernel operating system for your low-cost, open-source friendly PinePhone, the Genode OS framework plans to port to the PinePhone this year. Genode OS and its Sculpt general purpose platform are also wanting to better embrace GPU support in 2021...

SQL Server Linux from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral  Packt Hub

Sent in last week were many AMD graphics driver updates slated for Linux 5.12 including the likes of Radeon RX 6000 series OverDrive support. This week marks another batch of AMDGPU kernel driver changes being submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.12 cycle...

AMD Sends In More "New Stuff" For Radeon Graphics With Linux 5.12  Phoronix

Valve Is Planning Something Special For Linux Gaming In 2021  Forbes

With this spring's release of Ubuntu 21.04 there is more widespread use of "phased updates" for gradually rolling out new stable release updates to help avoid any regressions en masse from coming to light. For years the Ubuntu desktop has employed this phased updates strategy while now with it being plumbed into APT, Ubuntu Server and other versions will by default make use of phased updates...

After experimental builds and the recent release candidates, Valve's Proton 5.13-5 is now available as the latest version of this Wine downstream for powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Looking into Linux user logins with lslogins  Network World

Hitting the Mesa tree when Mesa 21.0 was being branched (but looks like it will still make it now part of "staging/21.0") is support for AMD's "rapid packed math" with the RADV driver's ACO compiler back-end...

One of the latest planned changes to the long list of improvements for Fedora 34 is enabling the HarfBuzz support within the FreeType library...

AlmaLinux, a CentOS alternative is planned release by March 2021 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 5 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

Plain text is the most resilient format for documents. Plain text documents are small, transfer quickly between machines, and can be read on any device. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to take notes in a plain text document.

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When you learn a new programming language, it's good to focus on the things most programming languages have in common:

• Variables – places where information is stored
• Expressions – ways to calculate things
• Statements – the means by which state changes are expressed in a program

These concepts are the basis of most programming languages.

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There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  Techradar

There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  TechRadar

This is an edited excerpt from my forthcoming book on Trust in Computing and the Cloud for Wiley and leads on from a previous article I wrote called Trust & choosing open source.

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