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If you miss flying this holiday season due to the pandemic, you can at least experience it virtually by flying your own aircraft with the open-source, cross-platform FlightGear flight simulator software...

FlightGear 2020.3.5 Released With Hundreds Of Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Red Hat defends CentOS decision following push back  TechRadar

CloudLinux Commits More Than $1 Million a Year to CentOS Replacement  HostReview.com

Global Linux Operating System Market Top Leading Companies: IBM, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian  Factory Gate

Ahead of the upcoming freezes set to begin around Debian 11 "Bullseye", the Debian developers working on KDE packaging have been working to get all the latest components updated in time...

Linspire, an early Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to "Lindows" that went dormant and then resurrected in 2018 and continuing an Ubuntu-based distribution, is out ahead of the holidays with its Linspire 10 beta release...

Linspire 10 Beta Released - Claims To Be #1 Linux Distro For New/Intermediate/Power Users  Phoronix

Unlike the KVM additions, the Xen hypervisor for the Linux 5.11 merge window doesn't bring any new features but just security fixes for some new vulnerabilities...

Here’s The True Reason Linux Users Love The Command Line  Forbes

For at least a second time, a patch sent out under "request for comments" would strip out the existing BZIP2 code within the Linux kernel...

Patch Proposed For Removing BZIP2 Support From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Patch Proposed For Removing BZIP2 Support From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

chromium browser missing from Linux menu - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

While 2020 will certainly be remembered for elections, protests, and most of all, the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of other things changed in 2020, including a whole lot of cool changes in technology. Through it all, we could count on system administrators to do what they do best. Perhaps more so than ever, as we all moved from physical offices to working from home. We generated more load than ever on our infrastructure as more users relied on virtual private networks and videoconference tools to get their daily work done.

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

• Variables
• Expressions
• Statements

These concepts are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand them, you can start figuring the rest out.

Because programming languages usually share similarities, once you know one language, you can learn the basics of another by understanding its differences.

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Linux 5.11 Drops AMD Zen Voltage/Current Reporting Over Lack Of Documentation  Phoronix

Created for version 7 of AT&T’s original Unix operating system, the sed command has been included with probably every Unix and Linux OS since. The sed application is a stream editor, and unlike a text editor it doesn’t open a visual buffer into which a file’s data is loaded for processing. Instead, it operates on a file, line by line, according to either a command typed into a terminal or a series of commands in a script.

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Companies are turning to open source during the pandemic, with 44% of organizations reporting they will increase their use of open source for application development, finds Tidelift's third managed open source survey.

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Linux Operating System Market | Global Opportunity Analysis And Industry Forecast 2020-2026  Farming Sector