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How to Use Linux on Your Chromebook  Beebom

Fedora continued serving at the forefront of many Linux distribution innovations over the past decade and the largely Red Hat driven platform continued contributing their work back upstream from countless GNOME features to hardware improvements/fixes, UEFI "flicker-free boot" crossing the finish line, good hardware firmware updating support, and much more...

From Botched Releases To Exciting New Features, Fedora Saw A Lot Of Changes During The 2010s  Phoronix

From Botched Releases To Exciting New Features, Fedora Saw A Lot Of Changes During The 2010s  Phoronix

JavaScript, Linux and R among most learned tech skills in 2019  ComputerWeekly.com

For open-source photographers, there is an exciting new present under the Christmas tree... The huge Darktable 3.0 software package with almost three thousand commits over Darktable 2.6. The Darktable 3.0 RAW photography software suite comes with several big improvements to help in managing your holiday photos or for any occasion...

Apache Tomcat is a free, mature, robust, and popular web application server software that is used to serve Java-based applications. It is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Expression...

FSCRYPT's Inline Encryption Support Updated For Possible Inclusion In Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Back in October we reported on work done by Google on FSCRYPT inline encryption support for allowing the Linux file-system encryption framework to handle the encrypt/decrypt more optimally for modern mobile SoCs with inline encryption hardware. It's looking like that work might be ready to go now for Linux 5.6 after missing out on the 5.5 cycle...

I haven't used the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) for anything serious yet, but I'm a fan of the C++ GUI toolkit that's pretty simple to learn and (in my experience) reliable even across updates. When I found out that there was a desktop environment built with FLTK, I was eager to try it—and I was quickly glad I did. The Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is a fast and simple desktop written in C++ and FLTK for Unix desktops.

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Python had a big year in 2019. According to popular resources like GitHub and Stack Overflow, it's trending as the second most popular language in the world.

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The Zen of Python is called that for a reason. It was never supposed to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for programming. The rules are specified tersely and are designed to engage the reader in deep thought.

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This business card is a Linux computer (made from $3 in parts)  Liliputing

The open organization community at Opensource.com published more than 50 articles in 2019. That's more than 50 new, openly licensed resources to help you explore the ways open principles are changing the way we work, manage, and lead in modern organizations.

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Senior IT Developer-Linux job with EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY | 190606  Times Higher Education (THE)

We've been covering Intel's Tiger Lake hardware enablement for Linux since the early patches were posted this summer and that quickly followed with

Intel Tiger Lake + Jasper Lake Power Management Support Prepped For Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Hybrid graphics and DisplayLink docks create Linux pain for laptops  Mash Viral

Hybrid graphics and DisplayLink docks create laptop Linux pain  ZDNet

In a rather unusual twist, the Hyperbola GNU/Linux distribution that is approved by the Free Software Foundation for being free software and making use of the Linux-libre kernel has now decided they are going to fork OpenBSD and become a BSD...