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Even with the tumultuous year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Qt Company is still on track for delivering the Qt 6.0 toolkit release before year's end...

Last week open-source developers at Intel began sending out Linux patches for supporting hybrid CPUs particularly ahead of 12th Gen "Alder Lake" coming to market with a mix of Golden Cove and Gracemont cores. Following that article last week, more patches hit the list in exposing the hybrid CPU topology to user-space...

F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System has long supported transparent file-system encryption via Linux's FSCRYPT framework but now Google engineers are working on allowing the file-system metadata to also be encrypted...

How to Clear Apt Cache and Reclaim Precious Disk Space  It's FOSS

Due to DXVK recently beginning to require Vulkan Transform Feedback (VK_EXT_transform_feedback) for this Direct3D translation layer popular with Linux gamers, Intel open-source developers have gone back and now implemented transform feedback support in the Intel "ANV" driver for Haswell era "Gen 7" graphics...

Intel Adds Vulkan Transform Feedback For Aging Haswell Graphics  Phoronix

If you've been on the internet for a very long time or you're just very resourceful, you might remember an early text-sharing protocol called Gopher. Gopher was eventually displaced by the HTTP protocol, which of course is the basis for the modern World Wide Web. For many people, the "internet" and the "World Wide Web" are the same thing, because many people don't consciously do anything online that's not on the www subdomain.

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The best Linux web-based admin GUIs for business  TechRepublic

In the second article in this series, you created your first few video game scripts in Scratch. This article explores ways to expand programming's possibilities to create more advanced code.

There are multiple ways to introduce these skills to kids, such as:

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Among the many additions in the recent Apache Cassandra 4.0 beta release, virtual tables is one that deserves some attention.

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Odoo is an opensource all-in-one business management software that ships with a suite of various business applications for various uses such as eCommerce, project management, helpdesk, accounting, inventory, and a website builder to mention

The post How to Install Odoo (Open Source ERP and CRM) on CentOS 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

U-Boot 2020.10 released on Monday as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source bootloader popular with embedded devices...

You Can Now Use 'Darling' to Run macOS Software on Linux  iPhone in Canada

Git 2.29 is on the way with today marking the availability of the initial release candidate...

Python 3.9 is out today as the newest feature update to this extremely popular language in open-source crowds...

With upstream work Red Hat is engaged in for supporting HP and Lenovo laptops on Linux, a new standardized sysfs interface is being discussed for exposing the performance-profile option on newer laptops so users can more easily select their desired laptop power/performance characteristics...

Linux Could Soon Have A New Knob For Toggling Performance/Power-Profile For Laptops  Phoronix

How To Upgrade From Fedora 32 To Fedora 33 [CLI & Graphical Methods]  Linux Journal

Nov. 10 | Getting real about the license complexity of Linux  Compliance Week

Vulkan 1.2.156 was released this morning and while it's a small revision to the API documentation it does come with a new extension...