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How to Enable Microphone and GPU Acceleration in Linux on Chromebook  Beebom

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott  The Register

Crikey, you lot have been busy writing in December. We've got more data munging from Greg Sutcliffe; we've got writing modules for orchestrating security; we've got networks, containers and thoughts from a sysadmin. No YouTubes this month—we thought you'd have enough reading here with the articles. Enjoy!

If you spot an interesting Ansible story on your travels, please send us the link via Mark on Twitter, and the Ansible Community team will curate the best submissions.

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Python is a high-level, object-oriented programming language known for its simple syntax. It is consistently among the top-rated programming languages for building RESTful APIs.

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How to Use the free Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Like almost everyone on the planet, I have a few social media accounts. I mostly stick to Facebook to stay up to date with friends and family and Twitter to follow a few other people.

Have you ever wanted to make a post that includes italics or some other fancy formatting? You can easily change the text to italics or bold when you're writing an email, but most social media platforms don't provide many formatting options.

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Bandwhich, formerly known as “what”, is a terminal utility written in Rust programming language, which is used for monitoring current network bandwidth utilization by the process, connection, and remote IP/hostname. It sniffs a specified...

While still a draft standard, support for the RISC-V "V" Vector Extension support for the Linux kernel is currently being prepared...

What to know before upgrading to Windows Server 2019  Network World

Linux 5.5 development has been picking up in recent days following Christmas week and New Year's but now more upstream developers returning to their keyboards in order to get this next kernel update buttoned up for its debut around month's end...

Linux 5.5-rc5 Released With "Fixes All Over" + A Big Performance Regression Fix  Phoronix

SuperTuxKart 1.1 is here — download the free open source Mario Kart game clone for Linux, Windows, and Mac  BetaNews

While Fedora 32 is already making it so CD / DVD install issues shouldn't block releases given most users are doing USB-based installations for the past number of years, Fedora is still trying to decrease the amount of space the install media takes up regardless of CD/DVD/USB media...

How to install Arch Linux for WSL- Windows Subsystem for Linux  H2S Media

Electronic Arts Swings Banhammer At Battlefield V Linux Gamers, Labels Them Cheaters  Hot Hardware

GNOME Shell 3.35.3 and Mutter 3.35.3 were released today as part of the next development step on the path towards GNOME 3.36 coming out in March...

When navigating the AMD.com driver downloads area the Radeon Software for Linux 19.30 driver is still referred to, which was released back on 5 November. That 19.30 driver series has been around for a while and we've been waiting for the 19.50 series driver to match their recent Windows driver update. It turns out there is a Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 driver that is public albeit not widely advertised...

Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 Quietly Released For Newest Enterprise-Focused Driver Support  Phoronix

Linux 5.5 as of this morning should have one less performance regression in tow if you are running on Debian/Ubuntu or otherwise having AppArmor enabled...

Linux 5.5 Lands Fix For The AppArmor Performance Regression  Phoronix