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Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 beta images available now  Neowin

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 beta images available now  Neowin

To date the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver hasn't supported AMD's GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler but that is changing...

Mesa's RADV Vulkan Driver Adding Compatibility For Use With The AMD Radeon GPU Profiler  Phoronix

Version 20.07.15711 of the Intel Compute Runtime was released this morning...

Intel's ICE driver for the Ethernet E800 series is seeing a new member of the family come Linux 5.7...

Intel Ethernet E823 Support Coming To The ICE Driver In Linux 5.7  Phoronix

The Linux EFI boot code is going through some "spring cleaning" ahead of the RISC-V EFI support landing that still could make it for the Linux 5.7 kernel cycle this spring...

Linux EFI Going Through Spring Cleaning Before RISC-V Support Lands  Phoronix

Linux EFI Going Through Spring Cleaning Before RISC-V Support Lands  Phoronix

The first batch of DRM-Misc changes following the recent Linux 5.6 merge window have been merged into DRM-Next in forming the early material that will ultimately come to the Linux 5.7 cycle in April...

Linux 5.7 DRM Bringing New "TIDSS" Driver  Phoronix

Windows & Linux Devices at Risk From Unsigned Peripheral Firmware  Cyber Security News

Open source should learn from Linux, not MySQL  Reseller News

Up close and personal with Linux malware  We Live Security

Microsoft: Linux Defender antivirus now in public preview, iOS and Android are next  ZDNet

Last year, I wrote about creating a video streaming server with Linux. That project uses the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RMTP), Nginx web server, Open Broadcast Studio (OBS), and VLC media player.

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Here's the scenario: Whenever I need some source code or a bundle of art assets or a game from the internet, I download it to my ~/Downloads directory, navigate to the folder, and promptly realize I forgot the file name. It's not that I don't remember what I downloaded; it's the proliferation of file types that throws me off. Was it a tarball or a ZIP file? What was the version number? Have I downloaded a copy before?

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Freespire 6.0: A Return to GNOME2's Simpler Linux Days  LinuxInsider.com

In this article, I will explain how to not write loops anymore.

What? Whaddaya mean, no more loops?

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