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Hitting the Mesa tree when Mesa 21.0 was being branched (but looks like it will still make it now part of "staging/21.0") is support for AMD's "rapid packed math" with the RADV driver's ACO compiler back-end...

One of the latest planned changes to the long list of improvements for Fedora 34 is enabling the HarfBuzz support within the FreeType library...

AlmaLinux, a CentOS alternative is planned release by March 2021 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 5 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

Plain text is the most resilient format for documents. Plain text documents are small, transfer quickly between machines, and can be read on any device. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense to take notes in a plain text document.

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

• Variables – places where information is stored
• Expressions – ways to calculate things
• Statements – the means by which state changes are expressed in a program

These concepts are the basis of most programming languages.

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There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  Techradar

There's a powerful new Linux gaming laptop on the scene  TechRadar

This is an edited excerpt from my forthcoming book on Trust in Computing and the Cloud for Wiley and leads on from a previous article I wrote called Trust & choosing open source.

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Two commonly used open-source Python web frameworks are Django and Flask. Django is a robust Python framework that allows users to rapidly develop and deploy their web applications by providing an MVC framework that

The post How to Install Flask in Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Patches were sent out today that provide the open-source Linux kernel "Nouveau" driver with support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series "Ampere" graphics cards. But at the moment there is no 3D acceleration and the developers are blocked still by signed firmware requirements, so it's basically just a matter of having kernel mode-setting display support...

The Linux 5.12 kernel will allow optional, run-time disabling of Intel graphics driver security mitigations, which so far is just in regards to last year's iGPU Leak vulnerability. This i915.mitigations= module parameter control is being added as part of finally fixing the Haswell GT1 graphics support that was fallout from this mitigaion...

Linux 5.12 To Allow Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations  Phoronix

SEGGER's Complete J-Link Software Now Available for Linux on ARM  Embedded Computing Design

The Linux Foundation launches 7-part open source management training program  TechRepublic

Run Windows apps on Linux with Wine 6.0  BetaNews

Alpine Linux, the distribution popular for container environments due to its lightweight nature with employing Musl libc and Busybox while being designed for simplicity, security, and efficiency, is out with version 3.13. With Alpine Linux 3.13 the distribution is ramping up its cloud ambitions...

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  StreetInsider.com

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  PRNewswire

Parasoft Accelerates CI/CD Pipeline Through Partnership With IAR Systems  Yahoo Finance

Virtual Machine Startup Shells Closes the Digital Divide One Cloud Computer at a Time  Linux Journal