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If you've looked carefully at FreeDOS, you've probably noticed that text only comes in a limited range of colors—sixteen text colors, and eight background colors. This is similar to how Linux displays text color—you might be able to change what text colors are used in a Linux terminal, but you're still stuck with just sixteen text colors and eight background colors.

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Google backs Linux project to make Android, Chrome OS harder to hack  CNET

In the first part of this extended review of The Age of Sustainable Development" by Jeffrey Sachs, I outlined the author's argument about the environmental impacts of economic development. In the second article, I discussed the author's argument about impacts on humans.

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How to Set Up Razer Devices on Linux for Lighting Effects and Other Configurations  It's FOSS

JingPad A1 Linux tablet launched for consumers on Indiegogo  SlashGear

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A media server is simply a specialized file server or computer system for storing media (digital videos/movies, audio/music, and images) that can be accessed over a network. In order to set up a media

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Alibaba Cloud is an important partner for Red Hat and the choice of public cloud for many of our customers in the Asia Pacific region. For those customers looking to modernize and migrate SAP workloads to SAP S/4HANA we can offer several reasons to consider RHEL for SAP Solutions in the Alibaba cloud.

Intel's Speed Select Technology introduced since Cascade Lake for providing more granular power/performance controls was done in the name of performance but it turns out an ISST Linux driver inefficiency could lead to a 10%+ performance hit for some HPC benchmarks...

Intro to Cyber Security | Operating Systems | Linux | Hardware | High School | Teaching Resources  TES News

In conjunction with supported Lenovo systems, a new "Think-LMI" driver is on its way to the mainline Linux kernel for allowing some BIOS/firmware settings to be accessed and configured within Linux...

Lenovo To Support Configuring ThinkPad BIOS From Within Linux  Phoronix

The Zink component to Mesa that provides a generic OpenGL implementation built atop the Vulkan API recently hit another "massively improved performance" milestone by Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz...

The wildly successful Blender 3D open-source modeling software has been working hard towards its Blender 3.0 release but will likely now be proactively delayed to allow developers more time to relax with COVID-19 lockdowns/restrictions loosening, the possibility of developer meetups pre-3.0, and letting more changes flow into this big feature release...

Linux Operating System Market to See Major Growth by 2026 | Google, Oracle, AWS – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current

Going along with a number of other recent WebAssembly interpreter/run-time releases, Wasmer 2.0 has been released as this popular WebAssembly WASI and EmScripten run-time...

How to Zip and Unzip or Extract TAR and TAR.GZ Files  MUO - MakeUseOf

EndeavourOS almost makes Arch Linux a viable desktop for the average user  TechRepublic

10 Linux Distros for Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced Users  MUO - MakeUseOf

Nvidia partnering with Valve to bring DLSS to Linux  Digit

AMD EPYC 7343 / EPYC 7443 Linux Performance Review  Phoronix