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COVID-19 has not stalled Linux development  Fudzilla

COVID-19 has not stalled Linux development  Fudzilla

Linux Engineer (Data Capture) at DRW (Chicago, IL, USA)  Blockchain News

MX Linux Releases First ISO For Its KDE Plasma Edition  Fossbytes

When I build infrastructure, I do it as code. The movement toward infrastructure as code means that every change is visible, whether it's through configuration management files or full-blown GitOps.

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The Rust programming language is designed to implement systems programming with safe concurrency and high memory performance in a way that feels familiar to C++ developers. It's also one of the most loved programming languages in Stack Overflow's 2019 Developer Survey.

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A test-automation framework is a set of best practices, common tools, and libraries that help quality-assurance testers assess the functionality, security, usability, and accessibility of multiple web and mobile applications. In a "quick-click" digital world, we're accustomed to fulfilling our needs in a jiffy. This is one reason why the software market is flooded with hundreds of test-automation frameworks.

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AMD Epyc Milan (ZEN3) generation CPU Surfaces in Linux Reference  guru3d.com

Package management or software installation on Linux systems can be very puzzling especially for newbies (new Linux users), as different Linux distributions use different traditional package management systems. The most confusing part of it

MX Linux Now Has a KDE Plasma Edition, First Beta Is Available for Testing  Mobile Tech News

The 64-bit ARM code building up for the Linux 5.9 cycle is set to mainline Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support as another security improvement inbound...

Linux 5.9 To Bring Arm Memory Tagging Extension Support  Phoronix

SolydXK 10.4 Distro Released, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10.4 "Buster"  Mobile Tech News

While last Sunday Linus Torvalds was concerned over a big Linux 5.8-rc3 release, this Sunday he is reporting that Linux 5.8-rc4 is on the smaller side...

Lenovo improves ThinkPads running Linux but issues with problem machines remain  ZDNet

The Monado open-source OpenXR runtime has seen a lot of features added this year and the most recent is support for OpenXR's XR_EXTX_overlay extension to allow for multi-application / overlay rendering...

Is there a free installable Solver for Libre, OpenOffice, Apache, etc? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Edward Shishkin continues pursuing development of new file-system functionality for Reiser5, the next-generation evolutionary advancement over the controversial Reiser4 file-system...

Reiser5 Pursuing Selective File Migration For Moving Hot Files To High Performance Disks  Phoronix

Back in April I wrote about patches for enabling FBC on the Intel 865 chipset nearly two decades after that chipset first shipped. Those patches didn't yet hit the mainline Linux kernel but they were revived again this week...