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Linux 5.7 Getting A "Tiny Power Button" Driver  Phoronix

2019 was a year of learning in the Cherry household. I am a senior software engineer who set out to learn new skills and, along the way, I taught my husband, Chris. By teaching him some of the things I learned and asking him to work through my technology walkthrough articles, I helped Chris learn new skills that enabled him to pivot his career deeper into the technology field. And I learned new ways to make my walkthroughs and training materials more accessible for readers to digest.

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In a previous article, I explained how I refurbish old dual-core computers ranging from roughly five to 15 years old. Properly restored, these machines can host a fully capable lightweight Linux distribution like Mint/Xfce, Xubuntu, or Lubuntu and perform everyday tasks. But what if you have a really old computer gathering dust in your attic or basement?

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Simplicity Does More Than Simplify Linux  LinuxInsider.com

The FreeMesh system promises to bring fully open source mesh networking to the masses. I recently had a chance to test it; it installed quickly, and the performance was great—especially for the price.

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Linux Operating System Market Investigation Highlights Growth Trends in the Coming Years: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Instant Tech News

Global Linux Computer Market: Dynamics, Segments, Size and Demand, 2020-2025  Instant Tech News

A Pre-Shared Key (PSK) or also known as a shared secret is a string of characters that is used as an authentication key in cryptographic processes. A PSK is shared before being used and...

Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day  Phoronix

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Clear Linux looks poised to join the ranks of the few Linux distributions allowing it to run off an F2FS root file-system...

F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming  Phoronix

Digging up IP addresses with the Linux dig command  Network World

While the open-source Intel "ANV" and Radeon "RADV" Vulkan drivers get talked about a lot, one of the lesser known Vulkan drivers within Mesa is Turnip but it's been gaining steam recently...

Solus Ships Linux Kernel 5.5 And Noveau Driver For v4.1 Fortitude  Fossbytes

It's been years since last hearing anything about sisched as the SI machine instruction scheduler that started out for the RadeonSI OpenGL driver and was ultimately supported by the RADV Vulkan driver too...

Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End  Phoronix

Google slams Samsung for making unnecessary changes to Linux kernel code  SamMobile

Proton 5.0-2 is out with fixes over last week's big Proton 5.0-1 release that brought many features to this Wine 5.0 downstream focused on powering Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games nicely on Linux...

Proton 5.0-2 Released To Fix Crashes For Steam Play Linux Gamers  Phoronix