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In 1994, my family bought a Macintosh Performa 475 as a home computer. I had used Macintosh SE computers in school and learned to type with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, so I've been a Mac user for well over 25 years. Back in the mid-1990s, I was attracted to its ease of use. It didn't start with a DOS command prompt; it opened to a friendly desktop. It was playful.

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While cloud storage offers many advantages, there's nothing quite like having your data on a physical hard drive. When you save data to a drive, you know exactly where your data is, and it's always available when you need it. When you save data to an external portable drive like a USB thumb drive, it's even better—not only do you know where your data is, but you can take your data with you everywhere you go.

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Four OS vendors support Huawei's openEuler-powered Linux distribution platform  TelecomTV

Linux's WireGuard VPN is here and ready to protect you  ZDNet

Anyone can use plain text to work more effectively. The one tool that you need in order to do that is a decent text editor.

Unless you're a coder, a system administrator, or a DevOps person, that editor doesn't need to be brimming with functions and features. A lightweight text editor is more than enough for most people.

When it comes to picking one, choices abound. You can use the editor that's baked into your Linux distribution, or you can consider one of these lightweight text editors:

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Four OS vendors support Huawei's openEuler-powered Linux distribution platform  TelecomTV

X.Org Server 1.20.8 was released as the newest point release for this current stable branch. X.Org Server 1.20.8 brings a number of fixes with there still being no sign of X.Org Server 1.21 gearing up for release...

Global Linux Software Market 2020, Application, Services, Demand, Opportunities, Growth Factors, Top Manufacturers and Business Development Strategies till 2024  Skyline Gazette

Within minutes of Linux 5.6 being released on Sunday evening, Jens Axboe was already with sending in the start of the various storage areas to the kernel that he oversees with their feature updates for Linux 5.7...

1. 'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release  The Register
2. IO_uring Sees More Improvements With Linux 5.7 For This Exciting I/O Tech  Phoronix
3. Linux 5.6 is out with USB4 and GeForce RTX GPU support, plus much more  TechRadar India
4. Linux Kernel 5.6 Officially Released  Softpedia News
5. Linux Kernel 5.6 Released With Mainline Support For WireGuard, Amazon Echo, And More  Fossbytes
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'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release  The Register

Rakuten Joins Linux Patent Consortium 'Open Invention Network'  The Fast Mode

Lutris 0.5.5 is out today as the newest version of this Linux game manager to assist in installing both native and emulated games on Linux. Lutris continues to expand the scope of its "runners" for improving the Linux gaming experience...

Lutris 0.5.5 Linux Game Manager Adds Humble Bundle Support, Initial VKD3D Support  Phoronix

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released With WireGuard, USB4, New AMD + Intel Hardware Support  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of the Linux 5.6 stable kernel a few minutes ago. This also means the Linux 5.7 merge window is now open for business...

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview With Intel Xeon Scalable  Phoronix

There is less than one month to go until the official release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" but we've already begun experimenting with it for weeks across a variety of platforms. For the most part we have found Ubuntu 20.04 slated to offer some nice performance improvements, especially if upgrading from the existing LTS series, Ubuntu 18.04. In this article are our initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Xeon Scalable from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to the current 20.04 near-final state.

Earlier this month there was the proposal by a Linux kernel engineer for Amazon to flush the L1 data cache on context switches as another safeguard against the ever increasing CPU vulnerabilities...

Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved  Phoronix