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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

Kwort Linux 4.3.5 Released With LTS Kernel 5.10.1 And Stable Packages  Fossbytes

Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 3 is now available as the latest development release ahead of our Q1'2021 update to this leading cross-platform, open-source automated benchmarking system...

Linux Software Market 2020 By Top Players, Growth, Trends, Size, Share, Analysis and Forecast to 2025  Farming Sector

Intel engineers have posted the initial Linux kernel patches providing AVX-512 optimized versions of common crypto algorithms. The AVX-512 optimized versions do pan out and promise to offer huge speed-ups but are disabled by default at this stage over the negative CPU frequency/performance impact that running AVX-512 can have on CPU cores / shared threads...

Intel Pursuing AVX-512 Optimized Crypto Algorithms For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 5.9 Reaches End of Life, Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.10 LTS Now  LXer

Lilbits: New software for very old phones, more native apps for Macs with M1 chips  Liliputing

Back in September Arm began talking about their "2020 extensions" for the A-profile architecture. Initial support for these new additions as ARMv8.7-A is beginning to land in the LLVM compiler stack...

IAR Systems Enables Linux-Based Continuous Integration and Automated Workflows for RISC-V  Embedded Computing Design

command will not process in Linux 19.1 terminal - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Running BSDs On The AMD Ryzen 5000 Series - FreeBSD vs. Linux Benchmarks  Phoronix