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AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability  Phoronix

Rockchip PX30 Display Support Coming With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Adding to the many changes on the way with Linux 5.6 is the Rockchip DRM display driver supporting the PX30 SoC...

IOTA developer builds OpenEmbedded Layer for Linux based devices  Crypto News Flash

A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks.

Have you ever looked at an installation script provided by a software vendor? They often add a lot of functions and logic in order to ensure that the installation works properly and doesn’t result in damage to the customer’s system. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my Bash scripts, and I’d like to share some of them in hopes they can help others. Here is a collection of small scripts created to illustrate these simple examples.

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Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

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Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi  Tom's Hardware

The goto shell utility allows users to navigate to aliased directories and also supports autocompletion.

How it works

Before you can use goto, you need to register your directory aliases. For example:

goto -r dev /home/iridakos/development

then change to that directory, e.g.:

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A late change proposal for Fedora 32 would jump the shipped Mono package from version 5.20 to version 6.6...

Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux  Phoronix

How to Install Flatpak and Snap App Store in Linux on Chromebook [GUI]  Beebom

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, an inode stores information that describes a file or directory (also a file – because everything is a file in Unix) except its name and content or...

It was just shy of a month ago in Mesa 20.0-devel code that RadeonSI enabled NIR by default to enjoy OpenGL 4.6 support and now already ahead of the Mesa 20.0 branching the previous TGSI code-path has been removed. TGSI has been the default intermediate representation of RadeonSI and other Gallium3D drivers but these days NIR has become the go-to IR for Mesa drivers...

Anwar Belayachi is a senior partner global solutions architect for the DXC Technology Alliance at Red Hat.

Accelerating application development and deployment processes for the cloud and digital era doesn’t just happen. Building the next-generation of enterprise apps, which are likely going to be cloud-native, requires a new set of tools, practices and platforms is a vital component to the success of these transformation initiatives. 

Generating numeric sequences with the Linux seq command  Network World

Following AMD's keynote with announcing the Ryzen 4000 series + RX 5600 XT + Threadripper 3990X, Intel now has up their address from the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Here are all the highlights from the perspective of a Linux user...

Intel At CES 2020 Talks Up One Of Their Open-Source Projects, Shows Off Tiger Lake  Phoronix

Google soon adding Linux support to older Chromebooks running on Intel Broadwell chips  About Chromebooks

Kicking off the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas, AMD CEO Lisa Su has begun with some interesting product announcements.....