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The shelves may be empty, but the disk is full: Not even Linux can resist the bork at times  The Register

Intel is working to enable OpenGL 4.x functionality for their OpenSWR software rasterizer within Mesa...

Many people are becoming involved with open source software development by contributing to projects on GitHub. Many of them use GitHub's graphical user interface (GUI), especially those who are new to the command-line interface (CLI). But what if you prefer working on the command line?

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Memcached is a general-purpose memory-caching system. This means it is designed to save (or cache) answers to questions that take a long time to compute or retrieve and are likely to be asked again. A common use case is to accelerate the use of a database: for example, if we expect to need the list of "names of all people who are on team X" repeatedly, we might put this data in Memcached rather than run a SQL query each time. (Note: Memcached is occasionally referred to as "memcache." We will stick to the full name throughout this article.)

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Calendar technology is not encrypted by default. That means any individual or provider between you and your calendar notifications can read and potentially store that information. Data deserves to be owned and secured by users through the use of open source paired with end-to-end encryption.

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I believe that WordPress has a place in every PK-12 school. Most teachers are looking for ways to quickly engage parents with news from the classroom, and while many use social media, WordPress provides a powerful alternative. A simple classroom blog that's easily accessible to all is a great way to improve communication.

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The latest LLVM 11 development code has enabled support for NVIDIA CUDA GPU device offloading from 64-bit ARM...

In this article, we will take a look at the Python Sys Module. There are variables and functions that are maintained by the interpreter and the sys module provides a way of interacting with...

System76 Announces Lemur Pro Linux Laptop with Insane Battery Life  Softpedia News

Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Was Called … Precise Pangolin  Reason

One of the interesting innovations for the eBPF in-kernel virtual machine in recent times is the work by Google on supporting MAC and audit policy handling by it. This stems from currently custom real-time security data collection and analysis of Google servers internally for real-time threat protection and this patch-set is part of their work on allowing similar functionality in the upstream Linux kernel...

Google Engineer Posts Latest Patches For MAC + Audit Policy Using eBPF  Phoronix

System76 Lemur Pro is an Ubuntu Linux workhorse laptop  BetaNews

I want to completely remove Linux Mint and reinstall Windows 10 - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer

Being introduced by Linux 5.6 is optional F2FS transparent data compression support that was implemented with LZO and LZ4. Now for the Linux 5.7 kernel there is Zstd compression support on the way...

F2FS File-System Adding Zstd Compression Support In Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Linux Distribution Published with Parrot OS 4.8, Kernel 5.4  Somag News

Networking-focused module runs Linux on NXP's S32G  LinuxGizmos.com

Networking-focused module runs Linux on NXP's S32G  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux phones running postmarketOS can now run (some) Android apps thanks to Anbox  Liliputing