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When I was in high school, one of the very first programming languages I was introduced to was Logo. It was interactive and visual. With basic movement commands, you could have your cursor (“turtle”) draw basic shapes and intricate patterns. It was a great way to introduce the compelling concept of an algorithm—a series of instructions for a computer to execute.

Fortunately, the Logo programming language is available today as a Python package. So let’s jump right in, and you can discover the possibilities with Logo as we go along.

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Trend Micro detected nearly 13 million malware events targeting Linux-based cloud environments  Express Computer

Fire Up The New Windows Subsystem For Linux In Windows 11: Here’s How  Fossbytes

The nomination period for the 2022 Red Hat Innovation Awards has been extended to September 20, 2021 - which means there is still time for you to nominate your organization for innovative uses of Red Hat’s open source technology. 

Asahi Linux Closing In On 'A Polished Linux Experience' On M1 Macs  WebProNews

Asahi Linux Closing In On 'A Polished Linux Experience' On M1 Macs  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with '-Werror' as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts  The Register

As expected this evening the Linux 5.15-rc1 kernel was released to top off the two week merge window that saw many changes to the kernel...

Linux 5.15-rc1 Brings New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, AMD Changes, Intel DG2  Phoronix

How to Add or Create a New Superuser on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install Flutter on Fedora Linux  H2S Media

How to Change Your MAC Address on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

While working on my usual Linux kernel feature overview that summarizes the many articles over the past two weeks outlining all of the new features and changes merged, one area that particularly stands out for Linux 5.15 are all of AMD's upstream contributions that happened to make it in this kernel. There is a lot of new enablement on the AMD side -- both for CPUs and Radeon graphics -- but also improving existing hardware support...

How you can Play PC Games on Linux With Lutris 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

How to install Brave Browser for Fedora Linux  H2S Media

The Apache Software Foundation recently published their FY2021 report for their year-ended 30 April. Even with the ongoing pandemic, the Apache Software Foundation managed to raise more than $3M USD and enjoyed a host of software successes...

Download and install Google Chrome for Fedora 34 Linux  H2S Media

We are now down to the last day of the Linux 5.15 merge window and one of the patch series we have been waiting to see if it would land during this two week period was the "folios" code -- or that also was recently renamed to "pagesets" to address some concerns over the name...

It's Looking Like Folios / Pagesets Might Miss Making It Into Linux 5.15  Phoronix

In addition to the RISC-V changes merged last week for the Linux 5.15 kernel, a second batch of patches was merged this weekend...