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Welcome to the 2021 Opensource.com summer reading list. This year's list contains eight wonderful book recommendations from members of the Opensource.com community. From classics like Frank Herbert's Dune and a new translation of Beowulf to non-fiction books about the history of tech industry culture, this list has books for readers with different tastes and interests.

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Joshua Ashton who is known for his work on DXVK (formerly D9VK) and related Steam Play / Proton graphics related efforts has submitted a proposal for a Wayland Surface-Suspension protocol...

Distribution for experienced Linux users: NixOS put to the test  Market Research Telecast

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market forecast unveils appealing oppor  Business-newsupdate.com

How to Manually Add Software Repositories in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux notebook Dell XPS 13 9310 with Ubuntu desktop in the test  Market Research Telecast

While Debian 11 is coming up soon and its full freeze is under one month away, Debian 10.10 is out this weekend as the latest routine point release...

TAR vs. TAR.GZ Files: What’s the Difference?  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install Clipgrab on Linux Mint 20.1 to download videos  H2S Media

Merged last week to mainline LLVM 13.0 was the new "GFX1013" target for the AMDGPU shader compiler. Well, it landed twice as at first had to be reverted after breaking the build bots / sanitizer testing...

How to Use a Tablet or Phone as a Second Monitor in Linux  Tom's Hardware

How to Use a Tablet or Phone as a Second Monitor in Linux  Tom's Hardware

How to Use a Tablet or Phone as a Second Monitor in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Libzip as the widely-used C library for accessing. creating, and modifying Zip archives is out with a new feature release...

Even with the warm summer weather and many municipalities loosening pandemic lockdown restrictions, KDE developers remain quite busy this summer with a variety of improvements to this open-source desktop...

Downlod Youtube videos on Linux Mint 20.1 using GUI APP - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Microsoft's Linux repositories were unavailable for more than 18 hours - Gaming News  BollyInside

For nearly one decade there has been talk of UPower 1.0 while in 2021 that still has yet to materialize for this former "DeviceKit-Power" project but at least now there is UPower v0.99.12 as the first release in two years...

Classical computing is based on bits. Zeros and ones. This isn't because there's some inherent advantage to a binary logic system over logic systems with more states—or even over analog computers. But on-off switches are easy to make and, with modern semiconductor technology, we can make them very small and very cheap.

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Linux: Create snap packages for your own applications  Market Research Telecast