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IBM Brings COBOL Capabilities to the Linux on x86 Environment  Database Trends and Applications

At the end of March NVIDIA released the 465 beta Linux driver while today has been promoted to stable in the form of the 465.24.02 release...

How to Install and Manage Multiple Versions of Node.js on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

MontaVista Joins the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation as a Principal Sponsor  StreetInsider.com

How to Create New Files on Linux Using touch  MUO - MakeUseOf

Windows 10 Rockets Ahead Of Ubuntu Linux On The Core i9 11900K For Some Workloads  Phoronix

For those wondering how the Windows vs. Linux performance compares with Intel's new Rocket Lake processors for both the CPU performance and some initial cross-platform exposure for the Xe Graphics, here are some preliminary benchmarks with the Core i9 11900K.

SimPocalypse (PC/Linux) is launching out of Early Access on Steam this May 11th  Gamasutra

MontaVista Joins the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation as a Principal Sponsor  PRNewswire

Global Virtual Private Servers Market to Reach $8.2 Billion by 2027  Yahoo Finance UK

Not even the best antivirus could have shielded you from this Linux and macOS malware  TechRadar

Not even the best antivirus could have shielded you from this Linux and macOS malware  TechRadar

Earlier this month I reported on a WMI temperature driver for Gigabyte motherboards being worked on by an independent developer. That "gigabyte-wmi" driver is now slated for inclusion in the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle...

Gigabyte Motherboard WMI Temperature Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13  Phoronix

The feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 21.1 is imminent but last minute feature work continues to pour in. Hitting Mesa Git this morning as the latest activity were some fixes and improvements in Gallium Nine for providing Direct3D 9 support atop Gallium3D drivers to Wine/Windows programs...

Mesa 21.1 Squeezes In Improvements For Direct3D 9 (Gallium Nine)  Phoronix

The "Virgl" virtual 3D GPU project for providing OpenGL (and work-in-progress VirtIO-GPU Vulkan) acceleration within guest virtual machines continues to mature for improving the open-source Linux desktop virtualization stack...

Linux Computer Market 2021 Will Reflect Significant Growth in Future with Size, Share, Growth, and Key Companies Analysis- Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, etc.  NeighborWebSJ

Linux is famous for its commands. This is partially because nearly everything that Linux does can also be invoked from a terminal, but it's also that Linux as an operating system is highly modular. Its tools are designed to produce fairly specific results, and when you know a lot about a few commands, you can combine them in interesting ways for useful output. Learning Linux is equal parts learning commands and learning how to string those commands together in interesting combinations.

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Anyone who spends a lot of time working with Git will eventually need to do some form of context switching. Sometimes this adds very little overhead to your workflow, but other times, it can be a real pain.

Let's discuss the pros and cons of some common strategies for dealing with context switching using this example problem:

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