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For a good number of years, there was a desktop operating system (OS) based on FreeBSD called PC-BSD. It was intended as an OS for general use, which was noteworthy because BSD development mostly focuses on servers. For most of its life, PC-BSD shipped with the KDE desktop by default, but the more KDE came to depend on Linux-specific technology, the more PC-BSD migrated away from it.

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In this short quick article, you will learn how to find all clients (using their IP addressees) connected to an Apache or Nginx web server on HTTP or HTTPS ports on a Linux server....

Back in August was the release of the very big CUPS 2.3 update that shifted the source code license, added support for IPP Printer presets, added a new utility, and other improvements for this Apple-controlled Unix/Linux printing system. Available now is CUPS 2.3.1 with various fixes...

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. I am fortunate to be a PSF Fellow (honorable member for life,) a Python core developer, and the liaison between my company, Red Hat, and the PSF. Part of that liaison work is providing updates on what’s happening in the Python community. Here’s a look at what we have going on in December.

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Google Is Banning Popular Linux Web Browsers For Unknown Reasons  Fossbytes

Friday marked not only the release of QEMU 4.2 for Linux virtualization but Intel's open-source crew developing the Cloud-Hypervisor as the Rustlang-based VMM built around Linux's KVM and VirtIO interfaces is out with a big feature release...

10 Best Linux Log File Management Tools  BBN Times

As was expected, today marks the first release candidate of Wine 5.0 that ushers in the code freeze ahead of this annual stable update for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...

Linux-on-Jetson SDR board gets major software upgrade  LinuxGizmos.com

These Linux browsers are being banned from Google services  Techradar

These Linux browsers are being banned from Google services  TechRadar

Fedora will continue producing ISO images of their distribution that can be installed to a DVD (or CD in the case of some lightweight spins) or more commonly these days copied to USB flash drives, but they are debating whether any CD/DVD optical media issues should still be considered blocker bugs in 2020 and beyond...

Senior Engineer - Linux Container - CrowdStrike  Built In Austin

Software Development Engineer-Linux Sensor - CrowdStrike  Built In Austin

Plenty of Linux Power Is Built Into Linux Lite 4.6  LinuxInsider.com

Amazon Leads Linux Foundation's Edge NOS Project News  SDxCentral

Valve has released Proton 4.11-10 and with this update to their blend of Wine that powers Steam Play is support for Halo: The Master Chief Collection among other Windows game improvements...

Linux Mint 19.3 disc images are being tested ready for Christmas release  Neowin

Linux Mint 19.3 disc images are being tested ready for Christmas release  Neowin

For a few years GNOME has supported a "launch on discrete GPU" option for applications within the Shell's menu while for GNOME 3.36 that support is being cleaned up and extended to also handle NVIDIA GPU configurations...