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If you've ever shared a neat computer trick, a complex application, or something in between with a friend, then you've probably uttered the phrase, "Well, it works on my computer." No matter how advanced computers become, there seem to be recurrent problems related to the differences in what any two machines have configured or installed. There are ongoing attempts to solve this, and for Python developers, one of the best ways to prevent it is to use virtual environments.

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Interrupts are an essential part of how modern CPUs work. For example, every time you press a key on the keyboard, the CPU is interrupted so that the PC can read user input from the keyboard. This happens so quickly that you don't notice any change or impairment in user experience.

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The IBM POWER processor architecture is now over 30 years old. Although it arrived in February 1990 with a closed source operating system and closed source applications on top, it gradually embraced open source. I became a POWER user soon after it launched and an open source user and contributor just two years later.

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Presumably with Xe-HP in mind, Intel engineers continue working on adding DMA-BUF support to the Linux kernel's RDMA code...

SSH Key-based authentication (also known as public-key authentication) allows for password-less authentication and it is a more secure and a much better solution than password authentication. One major advantage of SSH password-less login, let

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KeenWrite: An Open Source Text Editor for Data Scientists  It's FOSS

How Red Hat and NVIDIA are collaborating to bring blended technologies, like the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, to help with AI workloads and more.

As an increasing number of applications and related complexity put unprecedented demands on computing infrastructures, our customers are realizing that the future of computing needs to be more heterogeneous in nature; a single technology, no matter how innovative, cannot address all the requirements of modern, let alone future computing.  

The Free Software Foundation on Sunday marked thirty five years since its founding by Richard Stallman...

Mabox Linux 20.10 Released: A Manjaro Spin With Lightweight Openbox WM  Fossbytes

While normally the Linux kernel sees its stable releases after about seven weeks worth of release candidates, today Linux 5.9-rc8 was issued in allowing an extra week of testing...

Linux 5.9-rc8 Released To Provide An Extra Week Of Testing  Phoronix

Linux lovers are dreaming when they say Windows will lose desktop war  iTWire

The Failed OUYA Game Console Seeing Work For Mainline Linux Kernel Support  Phoronix

It's been eight years already since the launch of the OUYA game console built atop Android and initially driven up by hype as a new low-cost gaming platform only to turn out to be a commercial failure. Razer bought out OUYA's software assets in 2015 and last year finally shutdown all of the console services. But if you still have the OUYA hardware it soon may start running off the mainline Linux kernel...

With the new OpenBenchmarking.org that's been out in public form since last month and being developed as part of the soon-to-be-released Phoronix Test Suite 10.0, here is the latest feature now enabled in making it much easier for quickly carrying out high-level processor (CPU) and graphics card (GPU) component comparisons along with other improvements...

How to Install Google Chromium OS on any PC or laptop - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Intel Meteor Lake Architecture Added to Linux Kernel  Tom's Hardware

The Linux 5.9 kernel could be released as soon as today but more than likely will be pushed back to next Sunday given Torvalds' comments last week and continuing to see plenty of merge requests in recent days. But in any case when Linux 5.9 does ship very soon it comes with an abundance of new features and improvements...

The Most Prominent Linux 5.9 Kernel Features From AMD RDNA 2 To Battling Nefarious Shims  Phoronix