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KDE Plasma Mobile Drops Halium Support In Favor Of Open Devices  Phoronix

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel the GNU folks have released their "GNU Linux-libre 5.10-gnu" downstream that is the Linux kernel but without support for loading proprietary modules as well as preventing closed-source firmware binaries from being loaded on the system and related steps in the name of free software...

A Mini Browser War in Linux  TechNewsWorld

Assuming Linus Torvalds has no last minute objections, the long-in-development Intel SGX support will be merged into the mainline Linux kernel...

Valve's VKD3D-Proton continues speeding along as their downstream of VKD3D for mapping Direct3D 12 over Vulkan. VKD3D-Proton 2.1 was just released and besides enhancing the GPU-bound performance there are more prominent DX12 games now working with this translation layer...

Linux's Cedrus media driver that provides video decoding on various Allwinner SoCs is finally seeing support added for VP8. But given this addition for Linux 5.11 won't be out as stable until well into 2021 and most of the world has moved onto VP9, it may not be too beneficial at this stage...

1. Linus Torvalds: 'Nothing that looks scary' in important new Linux kernel 5.10  ZDNet
2. Linux 5.10 LTS is now live, packing a wealth of new features  TechRadar
3. Linux 5.10 LTS is here as a significant kernel update  BetaNews
4. linux Kernel 5.10 LTS download install features  Fossbytes
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Linus Torvalds: 'Nothing that looks scary' in important new Linux kernel 5.10  ZDNet

Global Linux Software Market,Top key players : Google,Twitter,Facebook,Amazon,IBM,Oracle ,Novell,RedHat  The Courier

The Best possible alternatives to replace CentOS 8/6 Linux in 2021  H2S Media

Best Server Distributions to Replace CentOS Linux  It's FOSS

How To Install Postman On Linux?  Fossbytes

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in NetBeans, a Java IDE (integrated development environment) maintained by the Apache Foundation. I find it’s got a good mix of automated abstraction and manual configuration that helps me keep my Java projects organized and optimized. Not all IDEs give much thought to text files, but XML is frequently used in Java projects, so XML support in NetBeans is an important feature.

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My article about learning different programming languages lists five things you need to understand when starting a new language. An important part of learning a language, of course, is knowing what you intend to do with it.

I've found that simple games are both fun to write and useful in exploring a language's abilities. In this article, I demonstrate how to create a simple guessing game in Java.

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Clearing up the CentOS Stream confusion  TechRepublic

Being able to build and tear down a public cloud environment is very useful, but most of us don’t have easy access to a public cloud. The next best thing would be to have a lab on your local machine, but even running on a local machine brings performance, flexibility, and other challenges. Most of the time, the additional workloads on our local machines interfere with doing our daily job, and they certainly prevent having a readily available environment to play and experiment with new software.

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Sometimes you might encounter the error “W: Some index files failed to download.” on Ubuntu when updating the system. Here’s an excerpt of the error. W: Failed to fetch archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-security/Release.gpg Unable to connect to

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