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Linux 5.10 release might get messy around Christmas  TechRadar

Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK  Phoronix

Red Hat for several years now has been working on PipeWire to overhaul audio/video stream management on Linux while being able to fill the duties currently managed by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK and being engineered with Wayland and Flatpak security in mind among other modern Linux technologies. With Fedora 34 next spring they may try to ship PipeWire by default in place of JACK, PulseAudio, and even legacy ALSA...

Code used in production is different from development code. In production, you need to build packages that run fast, manage dependencies, automate tasks, load external modules, and more. JavaScript tools that make it possible to turn development code into production code are called build tools.

The reason frontend code is "built" can be explained by looking into the various build steps and their importance.

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Kubernetes is the default orchestration engine for containers. Its options for controlling and managing pods and containers include:

1. Deployments
2. StatefulSets
3. ReplicaSets

Each of these features has its own purpose, with the common function to ensure that pods run continuously. In failure scenarios, these controllers either restart or reschedule pods to ensure the services in the pods continue running.

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As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Best Linux distros for Windows users in 2020  Techradar

Best Linux distros for Windows users in 2020  TechRadar

Linus Torvalds wants an M1 Mac… but running Linux, obviously  Developer Tech

How to manage user passwords on Linux  TechRepublic

Tiger Lake + Renoir On Ubuntu Linux For Battery vs. AC Performance  Phoronix

KaOS 2020.11 Linux Distro Released With KDE Plasma 5.20  Fossbytes

Android Will Take Over the Car World, Beating Both QNX and Linux  autoevolution

Apple - Linus Torvalds desires Apple's new M1-powered Macs to run Linux  Fintech Zoom

1. Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux  The Next Web
2. Linux 5.10 release might get messy around Christmas  TechRadar
3. Linus Torvalds would love to own a new M1 MacBook Air, but it doesn't run Linux Natively  Patently Apple
4. Apple - Linus Torvalds desires Apple's new M1-powered Macs to run Linux  Fintech Zoom
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Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux  The Next Web

Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux  The Next Web

It’s not uncommon to run into an issue of broken packages in Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions. Sometimes, when you upgrade the system or install a software package, you may encounter the ‘Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg

The post How to Solve “Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)” In Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

This New Year's Eve will mark one year since the announcement of the in-development Reiser5 file-system. While the outlook for getting Reiser5 upstreamed into the mainline kernel remains murky given the out-of-tree status of Reiser4, Edward Shishkin does continue advancing this latest Reiser file-system iteration...

Compare File Differences Graphically in Linux With Meld  It's FOSS