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You can now run Linux and Windows on the new Apple M1 Macs  Techradar

Whether you know it as Vim, Neovim, gVim, nvi, or even Elvis, the quintessential Unix editor is easily Vi. Included in probably every Linux and BSD distribution, Vi is a lightweight and minimalist text editor that many users love for its simple and succinct keyboard shortcuts and dual-mode design.

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Top 9 Best Open Source Forum Software to Self Host [2020]  It's FOSS

When creating a MySQL user with a relatively weak password, you might encounter the error ‘MySQL ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements’. Technically, this is not an error,

The post How to Fix "MySQL ERROR 1819 (HY000):" in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

While we have been looking out for Radeon ROCm 4.0 that was announced back at SC20 as well as an updated ROCm for providing the RDNA2 compute support only found currently in their packaged RX 6800 series Linux driver, ROCm 3.10 arrived on Wednesday as an unexpected twist...

Solus Announces New Budgie 10.5.2 Linux Desktop Environment  Fossbytes

Latest News 2020: Linux Operating System Market by Coronavirus-COVID19 Impact Analysis With Top Manufacturers Analysis | Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. | InForGrowth  The Haitian-Caribbean News Network

In working towards the March release of GNOME 40, the Mutter compositor / window manager is out today with its 40 Alpha release...

Now both Windows 10 and Linux can run on the Apple M1 processor (with tutorial) - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

SUSE’s Rancher acquisition brings containerization support  Network World

Open source predictions for 2021  TechRepublic

The Spectre Mitigation Performance Impact On AMD Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" Processors  Phoronix

What Is the Best Linux Distro for Laptops? | MakeUseOf  MakeUseOf

For those wondering what the current cost is to the default Spectre mitigation protections on the new AMD Ryzen 5000 series "Zen 3" processors, here are a set of performance tests looking at that overhead with the still relevant mitigations applied by default and then if forcing them off. The Zen 3 mitigation overhead was compared then to similar AMD Zen 2 and Zen+ processors.

Linux: The 7 best distributions for new users  TechRepublic

#BPF  Linux Journal

Kevin Dankwardt  Linux Journal

BPF For Observability: Getting Started Quickly  Linux Journal

Developers boot Windows 10 and Linux via virtualization on Apple Silicon Mac  XDA Developers

Syscall User Dispatch Appears Destined For Linux 5.11 To Help Windows Games On Linux  Phoronix