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How to Boost the Productivity with Sublime Text Snippets

Tecmint - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 17:03

Long story short, Recently I was assigned to a project in my work where I have to create a lot of bash scripts. I am from a python background and using Jupyter Notebook for

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Char/Misc With Linux 5.10 Brings Nitro Enclaves, Alder Lake, More Code For Gaudi

Phoronix - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 15:38
The "char/misc" area within the Linux kernel continues to have a bit of everything as the "catch all" pull request of the kernel not fitting into other existing subsystems...

My top 7 functions in Rust

opensource.com - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 15:01

I've written a few articles about Rust now, including (most recently) My top 7 keywords in Rust, in which I promised a follow-up article. The keywords article talked about keywords from the std library, and in this article, I'm going to look at some functions from the Rust prelude.


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Manage your Linux backups with Rdiffweb

opensource.com - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 15:00

The Rdiffweb app offers a simplified web interface for easy management of rdiff-backup, software that offers robust automatic backups from one Linux computer (client) to another Linux computer (server) using secure shell (SSH), thus maximizing your disk space. The free, open source online tool helps save time when accessing rdiff-backup archives, recovering data, and managing administrators.


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Introducing Red Hat's Open Source Participation Guidelines

Red Hat News - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 12:00

When your whole business revolves around open source, community participation, and upstream-first development, it's a reasonable assumption that you’re going to get asked about how all of that works. 

Oh, do we ever.

Linux 5.10 Continues Bringing Up Support For Intel's Rocket Lake

Phoronix - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 12:00
Building off Linux 5.9 that featured initial support for Gen12 graphics on next year's Rocket Lake desktop platform along with other early enablement for Rocket Lake like RAPL support and other PCI ID additions, that work has continued for the Linux 5.10 cycle...

AMD Sends Out Patches Adding "Znver3" Support To GNU Binutils With New Instructions

Phoronix - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 09:25
One of AMD's compiler experts this week sent out a patch wiring up Zen 3 support in the important GNU Binutils collection for Linux systems...

OpenBSD Marks 25th Anniversary By Releasing OpenBSD 6.8 With POWER 64-Bit Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/19/2020 - 00:35
It was in October 1995 that Theo de Raadt began the OpenBSD project as a fork of NetBSD 1.0 following his resignation from the NetBSD core development team. Now twenty-five years later OpenBSD 6.8 has been released for marking the 25th anniversary of this popular BSD distribution...

Linux 5.10 Staging Area Has The Usual Smorgasbord Of Changes

Phoronix - Sun, 10/18/2020 - 22:12
The Linux 5.10 kernel "staging" changes have the usual assortment of changes throughout this area where premature kernel code goes prior to proving itself and meeting kernel coding quality standards...

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