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From System76 setting up their own manufacturing facility for Linux desktops to Dell offering more Linux laptop options, the demand for pre-loaded Linux PCs continues to increase. One of the smaller Linux PC vendors also now expanding is German-based TUXEDO Computers...

Pre-Loaded Linux PCs Continue Increasing - TUXEDO Computers Sets Up New Offices  Phoronix

Shortwave is a new Internet radio player built for GNOME with GTK3 and has been in development the past year...

Desktop Linux 101: Reinstall Your Favorite Apps With This Easy Automated Solution  Forbes

Global Linux Software Market 2019 Demand Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, Google  Galus Australis

The terminal is one of the most efficient ways to interact with a Linux computer. When you type a command into the shell, you tell your computer exactly what you want it to do, specifying both the source and destination of what you need done, and then there's no further interaction required. Every time you type a valid command into a shell, you're essentially programming, even though your program may only run for a millisecond.

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Flatpak enables desktop applications to run in isolated sandboxes, which significantly improves security as it prevents applications from affecting one another and impacting the host system. In practice, however, typical applications still need to access services and user data that are shared among other applications and the host.

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Arch Linux Updates Its Kernel Installation Handling  Phoronix

This article explores awk's capabilities, which are easier to use now that you know how to structure your command into an executable script.

Logical operators and conditionals

You can use the logical operators and (written &&) and or (written ||) to add specificity to your conditionals.

For example, to select and print only records with the string "purple" in the second column and an amount less than five in the third column:

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In this article, you will learn how to upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. The steps described herein do not depict the official upgrade and this should not be applied to a production server...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Continuing To Work On Python 2 Removal  Phoronix

The goal for Ubuntu 20.04 is to ship with Python 2 removed since Py2 will be end-of-life after the after the start of the year and this next Ubuntu Linux release is a Long-Term Support release, but there still are many Python 2 depending packages left currently in Debian unstable and Ubuntu's "Focal Fossa" archive...

Microsoft Confirms Linux Will Get Microsoft Defender ATP Antivirus In 2020  Fossbytes

Entry Server Bang For The Buck, IBM i Versus Red Hat Linux  IT Jungle

Arch Linux has updated the behavior when installing the linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, and linux-hardened kernel options on this popular distribution...

Reactions To the Information That Microsoft's Edge Browser Is Coming to Linux  Market Research Base

Kaos nyokot Orde pikeun Desktop Linux Ubuntu  Herald Journalism 24

Kaos nyokot Orde pikeun Desktop Linux Ubuntu  Herald Journalism 24

Linux 5.4-rc7 Kernel Released With VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver In Place  Phoronix

Linux 5.4-rc7 was just released as the newest test candidate of the maturing Linux 5.4 kernel. At this stage it's looking like an eighth weekly RC will be warranted next weekend before officially releasing Linux 5.4.0 on 24 November...