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Unlock your Chromebook's hidden potential with Linux

opensource.com - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 16:02

Google Chromebooks run on Linux, but normally the Linux they run isn't particularly accessible to the user. Linux is used as a backend technology for an environment based on the open source Chromium OS, which Google then transforms into Chrome OS. The interface most users experience is a desktop that can run Chrome browser apps and the Chrome browser itself. And yet underneath all that, there's Linux to be found.


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Why every job in the tech industry is technical

opensource.com - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 16:01

Several years ago, I applied for a marketing job at a tech company. I got called back for the phone screening and had a delightful conversation with the recruiter. The next day, I got an email from the recruiter saying that I was not “technical” enough to move forward to the next round of interviews. I was shocked. 


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My open source internship during a pandemic

opensource.com - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 16:00

In May 2020, in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, I started a summer internship with Red Hat. COVID-19 had cut short my third year studying computer engineering at Georgia Tech, and I learned I would have to work remotely all summer. I wasn't sure what to expect from a virtual internship.


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How to Setup PyDev for Eclipse IDE on Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 13:25
The post How to Setup PyDev for Eclipse IDE on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Eclipse is not a new term that programmers will hear. It is very popular in the developer community and has been in the market for a very long time. This article is all about

The post How to Setup PyDev for Eclipse IDE on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

GTK 4.2 Releasing Next Month With Likely Introducing A New OpenGL Renderer

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 07:18
While the GTK 4.0 toolkit just released in December, GTK 4.2 is already gearing up for release next month with GNOME 40...

F2FS With Linux 5.12 Lets You Configure The Zstd/LZ4 Compression Ratio

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 06:03
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) with the Linux 5.12 kernel will allow configuring the compression ratio when enabling the transparent file-system compression support with LZ4 or Zstd...

HP ZBook Studio G7 Aims To Attract Linux Developers, Data Scientists

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 03:48
The HP ZBook Studio G7 aims to attract Linux developers and data scientists by not only offering a powerful hardware combination and by pre-loading Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but in also shipping a variety of tools and other software packages pre-configured for a modern developer and data scientist workload. We have been testing the HP ZBook Studio G7 for the better part of two months for this Linux-loaded mobile workstation and in this article is a look at this new HP device along with plenty of benchmarks, including Windows vs. Linux performance tests and more.

Android 12 Developer Preview Released

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 03:15
The first public developer preview is out today of Android 12...

Linux 5.12 Hooks In LED Support To The TTY Layer

Phoronix - Fri, 02/19/2021 - 02:27
There is an interesting change with the TTY/serial changes for the in-development Linux 5.12 kernel...

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