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The Allwinner "Cedrus" Video Decoder Supports H.265 On Linux 5.5  Phoronix

In software terms, especially at the operating system level, a port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process/application or a type of network service and each network service running on a Linux...

Linux Operating System Market 2019: Global Manufacturers: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. - VaporBlash  VaporBlash

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Django is the comprehensive web framework by which all other frameworks are measured. One of the most popular names in Python API development, Django has surged in popularity since its start in 2005.

Django is maintained by the Django Software Foundation and has experienced great community support, with over 11,600 members worldwide. On Stack Overflow, Django has around 191,000 tagged questions. Websites like Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram rely on Django for application and data management.

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It is my pleasure to introduce Opensource.com's selection of books that would make excellent holiday gift ideas. We hope you find them interesting items to give as gifts this holiday season or to add to your own holiday wishlist. Each book exhibits qualities that make them excellent gifts for open source enthusiasts, as they all encourage learning, exploring, and tinkering.

The Big Book of Maker Camp Projects

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From time to time, when I'm looking for some help on how to do something on my GNU/Linux desktop or server, I'll come across an article or conversation in a language other than English. If that language happens to be French or Spanish, that's fine for me. If it's in Portuguese or Italian, I can stumble through it. And, for other languages, occasionally, I'll give one of those online AI translators a go in the hopes of gleaning something useful.

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Know in Depth about Linux Operating System Market is Furbishing worldwide with IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and Forecast To 2026  News Description

Linux Mint 19.2 has been released in wild by the Linux Mint project development team as a new long term support edition which will receive support and security updates until 2023. This tutorial will...

Linux Mint is a modern, polished, easy-to-use and comfortable community-driven GNU/Linux desktop distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is a great and recommended distribution for computer users switching from Windows or...

This week Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview 0.7 with some groundbreaking features... Well compared to Command Prompt and the existing PowerShell terminal, but capabilities many Linux terminal emulators have offered for years...

Microsoft Talks Up The Concept Of Panes, Tab Reordering For Windows Terminal  Phoronix

While EXT4 is the most common Linux file-system among distributions and is quite mature at this stage, it does continue seeing noteworthy improvements every so often with new kernel releases. With Linux 5.5 there are more notable improvements on deck...

EXT4 For Linux 5.5 Sees New Improvements For This Mature File-System  Phoronix

Even with all the light shed on Spectre over the past nearly two years, with the Spectre RSB (Return Stack Buffer) disclosure that did affect IBM POWER processors it turns out the mitigations applied didn't cover all of the CPUs that should have been in place until this week...

Whoops: The Linux Kernel's Spectre RSB Mitigation For PowerPC Missed Covering Some CPUs  Phoronix

Pine64 PinePhone is a $150 Linux phone that breaks the mold  Android Authority

Canonical's Ubuntu engineers in cooperation with community members have figured out their 32-bit support adjustments for the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release...

The W3C put out an interesting status update this week on web games technologies and the various standardization efforts at play...

More Mesa drivers continue to be embracing NIR as the modern intermediate representation shared between these OpenGL and Vulkan open-source implementations...