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Abbreviated as nmcli, the network manager command-line interface is a nifty and easy to use tool that saves you lots of time when you need to configure an IP address. To display all the...

Fedora 32 Linux Officially Released: 5 New Changes Since Fedora 31  Fossbytes

If you have a talent you want to share with the world, whether it's making your favorite sourdough bread or speedrunning through a level of your favorite video game, live streaming is the modern show-and-tell. It's a powerful way to tell the world about your hobby through a medium once reserved for exclusive and expensive TV studios. Not only is the medium available to anyone with a relatively good internet connection, but the most popular software to make it happen is open source.

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Software development is messy. So many wrong turns, typos to fix, quick hacks and kludges to correct later, off-by-one errors you find late in the process. With version control, you have a pristine record of every wrong turn and correction made during the process of creating the "perfect" final product—a patch ready to submit upstream. Like the outtakes from movies, they are a little embarrassing and sometimes amusing.

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WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010 that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, web developers can create smaller, richer images that improve site speed. A faster loading website is critical to the user experience and for the website's marketing effectiveness.

For optimal loading across all devices and users, images on your site should not be larger than 500 KB in file size.

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Linux Computer Market – Leading key players Dell Minifree Slimbook System76 Ubuntushop.be Purism Juno Computers Vikings TUXEDO Computers Entroware Pine64 HUAWEI Lenovo  Cole of Duty

BashTop is a Linux Resource Monitor for the Terminal  CNX Software

BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API...

There was a lot to take in from day one of the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience. Just in case you missed it, here are some of the highlights and a sneak peek at day two.

Red Hat Summit: Linux is the foundation, OpenShift the future  CRN Australia

Beam Your Program To Another Computer  Hackaday

Lenovo will start offering ThinkPads with Linux pre-installed  TechSpot

Red Hat Summit: Linux Is The Foundation, OpenShift The Future  CRN: Technology news for channel partners and solution providers

There's been a lot of interesting work hitting Mesa Git this week ahead of the Mesa 20.1 code branching and feature freeze. Merged this afternoon was a rather simple optimization benefiting Gen11 (Icelake) and newer for their open-source Vulkan driver, it's such a simple change it is almost surprising it took so long to benefit...

QEMU 5.0 is out today for this processor emulator that is a key piece to the Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization  Phoronix

Ubuntu 20.04 Looking Like macOS Highlights the Linux Customization Power  Softpedia News

Microsoft Azure Arc will support OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

Tech today: IBM dividend boost; Red Hat growth; NetApp's AI startups; Lenovo-Linux; FirstNet tops 1M  WRAL Tech Wire

Valve along with their comrades at CodeWeavers are preparing Proton 5.0-7 as the newest version of their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...