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How to monitor system resources on Linux  TechRepublic

Some data is ephemeral, stored in RAM, and only significant while an application is running. But some data is meant to be persistent, stored on a hard drive for later use. When you program, whether you're working on a simple script or a complex suite of tools, it's common to need to read and write files. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data that your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Lua.

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Embedded Linux Market Potential Growth, New Opportunities 2021-2027 by Manufacturers – IBM, Mentor Graphics, Advantech, Siemens, Mitsubishi, ENEA, etc  The Market Eagle

NewsFlash: A Modern Open-Source Feed Reader With Feedly Support  It's FOSS

Last week, Red Hat and AWS announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a fully managed and jointly supported offering that enables organizations to build, deploy and manage applications with Red Hat OpenShift, delivered as a native AWS service accessible through the AWS Management Console.

Today's release of Linux 5.12-rc5 is "bigger than average" for this stage of kernel development and if that keeps up is likely to result in an extra week's worth of testing / an -rc8 release ahead of Linux 5.12 final, but it's too early to call at this stage...

Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average  Phoronix

While Godot receives much of the - well deserved - attention when it comes to open-source, cross-platform game engines, another deserving contender is the Flax Engine that just reached v1.0 last year after going public in 2018...

Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine  Phoronix

This month saw many new and updated test profiles for the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org for carrying out fully-automated, reproducible cross-platform benchmarking...

Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation  Phoronix

8 Best Linux distro for gaming in 2021 to install on PC or laptop  H2S Media

Linux games on the rise thanks to the Steam catalog – Explica .co  Explica

Building The Dolphin Emulator In Ubuntu On A Nintendo Switch  Hackaday

An interesting open-source project that has been brought up now a few times by Phoronix readers is Box86 for allowing 32-bit x86 programs to run unmodified on non-x86 Linux systems like ARM...

Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs  Phoronix

Two weeks ago Wine-Staging 6.4 was at nearly 700 patches while this weekend's release of Wine-Staging 6.5 lowers that to 661 patches thanks to a number of them being upstreamed...

Mesa developers are currently discussing the raising of the default compiler baseline for Mesa drivers moving forward, which would raise the base CPU requirements for these open-source Mesa drivers unless overriding the compiler flags. However, all but the very oldest systems would be negatively impacted...

How to Back Up a Crostini Linux Installation on Your Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Back Up a Crostini Linux Installation on Your Chromebook  MakeUseOf