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Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...

SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Huawei joins Major US-based open-source patent protection consortium OIN  ZDNet

Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...

Basically a half-week after Linux 5.6 shipped as stable, we are up to the second point release of it...

Linux 5.6.2 Released With Fix For The IWLWIFI Intel WiFi Driver  Phoronix

Days after AMD announced their full Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPU line-up, Intel has now introduced their 10th Gen Core H-series processors...

Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux for telco edge computing use cases  TelecomTV

DownZemAll is an open source download manager for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

ProtonMail Bridge Now Officially Available For Linux, Windows, And Mac  Fossbytes

The month of April usually sees the new annual GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) feature releases and for GCC 10 in the form of GCC 10.1 as the first stable release in the series does stand chances of releasing this month...

Cloudflare announces free VPN tool WARP for Windows and macOS, with Linux to follow  BetaNews

In this guide, you will learn how to reset a forgotten root password on RHEL 8 server. Resetting the root password usually involves a few steps that will help you to reset the root...

Huawei Joins the Open Invention Network  Yahoo Finance

The proc filesystem is an important feature of Linux that you can't ignore. proc is a pseudo or virtual filesystem that provides an interface to kernel data structures. In other words, proc isn't an actual filesystem in the real-world sense; rather, it resides only in memory and not on a disk. It is automatically mounted by the system.

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The Bash shell is definitely not the only shell out there, but it's one of the most powerful. This makes it a popular choice for systems administrators needing to develop serious applications that go beyond a simple "laundry list" of commands to run on a system. There are lots of great uses for other shells (I default to Tcsh for Git hooks, for instance), but Bash is an easy choice for serious scripting, and here's why.

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Are you ready to take the plunge into desktop Linux? Join the rapidly growing community of people who are living without the limits, lack of security, and lack of privacy afforded by proprietary operating systems. The question I had in the beginning was: How do I find a computer that runs Linux?

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Looking For A Linux Laptop? Check Out The Latest Manjaro InfinityBook  Fossbytes

ProtonMail Officially Announces ProtonMail Bridge for Linux  Softpedia News

A few months back when we last looked at the performance impact of having SELinux enabled there was a hit but not too bad for most workloads. But we'll need to take another look soon as with the Linux 5.7 kernel are some performance improvements and more for SELinux...