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It's been just over one month since AMD launched the Ryzen 5000 series as the first processors part of the Zen 3 family. The Linux performance continues to be terrific with the Ryzen 5600X / 5800X / 5900X / 5950X parts in our continued benchmarking...

The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Continue To Impress On Linux  Phoronix

5 Best Linux Distros for Beginners in 2021 to use on laptop or PC  H2S Media

How to Manage Linux Servers with the Cockpit Web Interface  How-To Geek

The essential WSL commands for PowerShell you need to know  Windows Central

AMD has carried out a timely release of their RDNA 2 ISA documentation for those interested in working on any compiler support around these very latest graphics processors or working on other shader optimization approaches, etc...

A new SDL2 library release is being prepared for this widely-used, cross-platform abstraction layer popular with games for supporting a wide range of input devices / peripherals and other vast subsystem coverage in a portable manner...

There have been many workarounds and changes to the SDMA (System DMA) copy support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver since the support was introduced years ago, but it's now been outright removed due to too many generations of AMD Radeon hardware having issues with it enabled...

QEMU 5.2 Released For Improving The Linux Open-Source Virtualization Stack  Phoronix

QEMU 5.2 was released on Tuesday as the latest feature release for this open-source processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

There’s XEDIT, jEdit, NEdit, gedit, and, as it turns out, medit. 

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To you learn a new programming language, it's good to focus on the things most programming languages have in common:

• Variables
• Expressions
• Statements

These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Because of these similarities, once you know one programming language, you can start figuring another one out by recognizing its differences.

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No. 1 Visual Studio IDE Feature Request: Linux  Visual Studio Magazine

No. 1 Visual Studio IDE Feature Request: Linux  Visual Studio Magazine

Most of us have gotten a lot more familiar with working from home this year. In my role as a developer advocate, this has meant a lot less travel and a lot more video work, including streaming on Twitch.

As I transitioned to working and streaming video from home in spring 2020, I decided to get a Stream Deck, but I wasn't exactly sure what I'd use it for.

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How Kali Linux creators plan to handle the future of penetration testing  Help Net Security

PHP is arguably one of the most widely used server-side programming languages. It’s the language of choice when developing dynamic and responsive websites. In fact, popular CM platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, and Magento

The post How to Install PHP 8.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel's Deep Neural Network Library currently known as oneDNN as part of the oneAPI suite (and formerly known as MKL-DNN and DNNL) has reached version 2.0 as an open-source project...

Patch Tuesday, Good Riddance 2020 Edition — Krebs on Security  Krebs on Security

Automotive Grade Linux Releases 10th Version Of Unified Code Base  CleanTechnica