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In this article series, Opensource.com Correspondents and others have been writing the same "guess the number" game in various programming languages. This exercise shows how the basic concepts you'll find in most programming languages—variables, expressions, and statements—can be applied to learn new languages.

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The great thing about computers is that they’re really good at multi-tasking.

The bad thing about computers is that they’re really good at multi-tasking.

Whether you consider yourself, as a human, good or bad at multi-tasking, sometimes you need a little help focusing. One of those times is when you’re trying to compose clear and concise communication. And that’s exactly why Focuswriter was developed.

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Troubleshooting "No Bootable Medium Found" Error in VirtualBox  It's FOSS

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues seeing new work around its transparent data compression, optional case insensitive behavior, and native encryption support with the new code queued for Linux 5.11...

F2FS Continues Furthering Its Encryption, Per-File Data Compression Capabilities  Phoronix

Timeshift cancelled and space still missing - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Announced just over one month ago to the day was the AMD Instinct MI100 and as part of that the ROCM 4.0 software stack. ROCm 4.0 didn't end up actually shipping then but today its sources were uploaded and release builds made available...

There has been some early success geting Ubuntu up and running on Apple's M1 ARM hardware with using the Apple Hypervisor Framework but it looks like a much better experience is on the way with the forthcoming Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon...

Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build  Phoronix

Where Fedora fits in the new Red Hat/CentOS Stream Linux world  ZDNet

AMD noted that EPYC Milan "Zen 3" server processors would be shipping to select customers this quarter ahead of the formal launch in Q1. That's accurate with at least one enterprise now making public inquiries over Linux kernel versions for the EPYC 7003 series. The recent Linux 5.10 kernel debut being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release is coming just in time for those users...

Linux 5.10 As An LTS Kernel Comes Just In Time For AMD EPYC "Milan"  Phoronix

Dent Introduces Industry's First End-to-End Networking Stack Designed for the Modern Distributed Enterprise Edge and Powered by Linux  AiThority

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January...

With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support...

Linux containers can minimize cross-domain security headaches  Defense Systems

In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way...

The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window...

OpenRISC + RISC-V Improvements Come For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Following last week's release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets...