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ARM server vendor Ampere Computing has been working on an SSIF BMC-side driver for the Aspeed ASTC2500 baseboard management controller that they are looking to upstream in the Linux kernel...

ASpeed AST2500 SSIF BMC Driver Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

This is the tenth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of these versions have been out for a while. Python 3.9 was first released in 2020 with cool new features that are still underused. Here are three of them.

Adding dictionaries

Say you have a dictionary with "defaults," and you want to update it with parameters. Before Python 3.9, the best option was to copy the defaults dictionary and then use the .update() method.

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Chrome OS support for Linux apps will exit beta in a few weeks  Developer Tech

It's hard to find a game that combines the difficulty of, say, Dark Souls with the elegance of Conway's Game of Life. In a 1962 paper, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó came up with just such a game, which he called the Busy Beaver Game (BBG).

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The post How to Install Latest XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Xfce is a modern, open-source, and lightweight desktop environment for Linux systems. It also works well on many other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD plus several others. It is fast

The post How to Install Latest XFCE Desktop in Ubuntu and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel's open-source team maintaining their graphics compiler (IGC) have issued a big update this week...

Linux Software Market is Booming Worldwide with Key Players: Google, Microsoft, Amazon – The Shotcaller  The Shotcaller

PipeWire continues to be on an upward trajectory for managing Linux audio/video streams and becoming a viable replacement now to PulseAudio and JACK on the Linux desktop...

Garuda Desktops Put a New Spin on Linux Looks  TechNewsWorld

Garuda Desktops Put a New Spin on Linux Looks  LinuxInsider.com

How to Find Your IP Address in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

SUSE IPO disappoints  ZDNet

Tuxedo Infinity Book Pro 14 is a Linux laptop with Intel Tiger Lake and up to a a 2880 x 1800 pixel display  Liliputing

Making Work a not supported USB BT adapter in Linux Distro - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

SUSE bridges the gap between openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise  ZDNet

Canonical Releases New Linux Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS  LXer

Red Hat is already one of the leading employers of open-source graphics driver developers and other engineers working on the upstream Linux desktop graphics stack while they are adding even more...

PostgreSQL developers continue working on juicing the maximum performance possible out of this popular open-source SQL database server...

How to install Steam on Debian 10 or 11 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media