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Syxsense Announces New Support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux Devices  WFMZ Allentown

Syxsense Announces New Support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux Devices  Yahoo Finance

Linus Torvalds would like to use an M1 Mac for Linux, but…  ZDNet

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical publishes curated container images to help secure software supply chains  BetaNews

Merging and sorting files in Linux: Easier than you think  TechGenix

Earlier this year we mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman working on a new READFILE system call. The goal of this new syscall is for reading small and medium files more efficiently by having one call to read a file straight into a buffer without having to use the separate open/read/close system calls. It's looking like that system call is back on the table and could be mainlined now that there's a possible user...

Linux READFILE System Call Revived Now That It Might Have A User  Phoronix

Linux READFILE System Call Revived Now That It Might Have A User  Phoronix

LibreOffice 7.1 was branched this weekend that also marked the hard feature freeze for this next half-year update to this open-source office suite. LibreOffice 7.1 Beta has now shipped ahead of next month's release candidate and the additional test releases in January before going gold in early February...

There are two interesting bits of news today pertaining to open-source Vulkan drivers being officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.0 specification in passing the necessary Vulkan CTS tests...

Linux Computer Market Anticipated to Grow at a Significant Pace by 2020 – 2026  AlgosOnline

An interesting solution built off Intel's oneAPI Level Zero is the open-source "ZLUDA" that is providing a "Level Zero CUDA" implementation for being able to run programs geared for NVIDIA CUDA atop Intel UHD / Xe Graphics hardware...

If you want a home security system to tell you if someone is lurking around your property, you don't need an expensive, proprietary solution from a third-party vendor. You can set up your own system using a Raspberry Pi, a passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor, and an LTE modem that will send SMS messages whenever it detects movement.

Prerequisites

You will need:

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React is a JavaScript user interface (UI) library that was built and is maintained by Facebook. React helps JavaScript developers think logically and functionally about how they want to build a UI.

With React, you can build:

1. Single-page applications
2. Applications that are easy to understand
3. Scalable applications
4. Cross-platform applications

React allows developers to build applications declaratively and offers a unidirectional flow of data.

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Machine learning is a powerful computing capability for predicting or forecasting things that conventional algorithms find challenging. The machine learning journey begins with collecting and preparing data—a lot of it—then it builds mathematical models based on that data. While multiple tools can be used for these tasks, I like to use the shell.

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Critical Unpatched VMware Flaw Affects Multiple Corporates Products  The Hacker News

GNU Guix 1.2.0 Released With Linux-libre 5.9.3, GNOME 3.34.2, More  Fossbytes

Customize Task Switching Experience on GNOME Desktop in Linux  It's FOSS

Usually, when a client system connects to a network via WiFi or an ethernet cable, it automatically picks an IP address from the router. This is made possible through the DHCP server which auto-assigns

The post How to Configure Static IP Address on Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

WireGuard's adoption continues growing with it recently having the accomplishments of being back-ported to Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, coming to Android 12, upstreamed into OpenBSD, and other accomplishments this year. The WireGuard developers have now also updated their port of this secure VPN tunnel technology for Micrsoft Windows...