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Two commonly used open-source Python web frameworks are Django and Flask. Django is a robust Python framework that allows users to rapidly develop and deploy their web applications by providing an MVC framework that

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Patches were sent out today that provide the open-source Linux kernel "Nouveau" driver with support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series "Ampere" graphics cards. But at the moment there is no 3D acceleration and the developers are blocked still by signed firmware requirements, so it's basically just a matter of having kernel mode-setting display support...

The Linux 5.12 kernel will allow optional, run-time disabling of Intel graphics driver security mitigations, which so far is just in regards to last year's iGPU Leak vulnerability. This i915.mitigations= module parameter control is being added as part of finally fixing the Haswell GT1 graphics support that was fallout from this mitigaion...

Linux 5.12 To Allow Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations  Phoronix

SEGGER's Complete J-Link Software Now Available for Linux on ARM  Embedded Computing Design

The Linux Foundation launches 7-part open source management training program  TechRepublic

Run Windows apps on Linux with Wine 6.0  BetaNews

Alpine Linux, the distribution popular for container environments due to its lightweight nature with employing Musl libc and Busybox while being designed for simplicity, security, and efficiency, is out with version 3.13. With Alpine Linux 3.13 the distribution is ramping up its cloud ambitions...

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  StreetInsider.com

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  PRNewswire

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  Yahoo Finance

Virtual Machine Startup Shells Closes the Digital Divide One Cloud Computer at a Time  Linux Journal

Wine 6.0 stable is now officially available as the annual stable release for this open-source project allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like platforms...

Wine 6.0 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements For Windows Software On Linux  Phoronix

Following the surprise announcement last month that CentOS 8 will be discontinued at EOY2021 with CentOS Stream to be the new upstream for RHEL, several different organizations and developers have announced their intentions to create new community-oriented, open-source rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that will be free. One of the promising announcements so far has been from CloudLinux and today they have announced it as AlmaLinux...

CloudLinux Announces AlmaLinux As Their 1:1 RHEL Fork, Alternative To CentOS  Phoronix

With GTK4 out and stabilizing well, more GNOME components are working to migrate to this updated toolkit as part of the GNOME 40 development cycle...

Clang LTO for the Linux kernel to provide link-time optimizations for yielding more performant kernel binaries (plus Clang CFI support) looks like it will land for Linux 5.12. With that compiler optimization feature appearing squared away, Google engineers are also working on Clang PGO support for the Linux kernel to exploit profile guided optimizations for further enhancing the kernel performance...

GCC 11 is slated to enter "Stage 4" development at the end of this weekend after which only regression and documentation fixes will be permitted. The first GCC 11 stable release should be out in 2~3 months, but at the moment there is an increasing number of P1 regressions that are of the highest priority...

16-year-old runs Linux on iPhone 7  Macworld UK