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For those that prefer waiting until the first point release of a new Ubuntu Long Term Support series before upgrading, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS is out with the latest bug and security fixes for the "Focal Fossa" release...

New Training Course Prepares Developers to Create Enterprise Blockchain Applications  PRNewswire

Fedora's less talked about "Internet of Things" (IoT) edition is looking to be promoted to an official spin for Fedora 33...

The Linux perf events changes for the performance monitoring subsystem were already sent in and pulled for the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...

Perf Changes For Linux 5.9 Include Intel Arch LBR, Hygon RAPL, Comet Lake Uncore  Phoronix

Perf Changes For Linux 5.9 Include Intel Arch LBR, Hygon RAPL, Comet Lake Uncore  Phoronix

Linux Spyware Stack Ties Together 5 Chinese APTs  OODA Loop

GNU C Library 2.32 (glibc 2.32) is now available as this important library for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems...

An Overview of The BootHole Vulnerability | Avast  Security Boulevard

The release of PHP 8.0 is now one step closer to reality with the first beta being issued today and this also marking the feature freeze for this version due out later in the year...

Linux Operating System Market Future Prospects, Growth And Outlook (2020-2026) | Fortune Business Insights  Market Research Posts

Linux Operating System Market Reports, Scope, Methodology, Timelines And Challenges Forecast Till 2026  Owned

Longtime Linux kernel developer Pavel Machek has taken over as sole maintainer of the LED subsystem. For this first pull request going into Linux 5.9 is a big addition... The multi-color LED framework code has finally been merged...

Linux 5.9 Introducing A Multi-Color LED Framework  Phoronix

Linux 5.9 Introducing A Multi-Color LED Framework  Phoronix

There's a saying about the cloud, and it goes something like this: The cloud is just somebody else's computer. While the cloud is actually more complex than that (it's a lot of computers), there's a lot of truth to the sentiment. When you move to the cloud, you're moving data and services and computing power to an entity you don't own or fully control. On the one hand, this frees you from having to perform administrative tasks you don't want to do, but, on the other hand, it could mean you no longer control your own computer.

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Open source software is now mainstream; long gone are the days when open source projects attracted developers alone. Nowadays, users across numerous industries are active consumers of open source software, and you can't expect everyone to know how to use the software just by reading the code.

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Lazarus linked to malware framework MATA that target Windows, Linux, macOS  Backend News

Merging and sorting files on Linux  Network World

I am mostly a self-taught programmer. When I was growing up in the late 1970s, our elementary school had a small resource room with an Apple II computer. My brother and I fell into a group of friends that liked computers, and we all helped each other learn the system.

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