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Historically and theoretically speaking, a decade, a century, or a millennium starts when the clock turns midnight on January 1 of the year one of its decimal order. For example, the 20th century started on January 1, 1901, not on January 1, 1900. The reason for this is simple: there is no year 0 in our modern calendar, so these periods of time start on year 1 (using the Gregorian calendar). But that's not how we refer to time periods colloquially and culturally; for example, when we mention '80s music or movies, we're talking about the period from 1980 to 1989.

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Getting one software process to talk to another software process is a delicate balancing act. It can be a vital function for an application, though, so it's a problem any programmer embarking on a complex project has to solve.

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This is part 10 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are:

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Kubernetes Distribution: What It Is and What It Isn’t  Container Journal

Building on earlier GCC commits for Arm's BFloat16 (BF16) support and other new extensions, a late change landing for GCC 10 is the command line options for targeting the ARMv8.6-A architecture and optionally toggling i8mm and BF16 extensions...

To access or work with a remote Git repository, you can either use SSH or HTTP(S) protocols; with the former, when it comes to private repositories, you can simply configure SSH keys without a...

The Linux Laptop King Gets Even Better In 2020: XPS 13 Developer Edition  Fossbytes

How to install Minecraft Java Edition on a Chromebook  Pixel Spot

Linux Software Market Is Thriving Worldwide | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM  Chief Analyst

Fedy (previously called as Fedora Utils) is a post-installation script written in bash, especially for Fedora. It is released under GNU General Public License. Fedy aims at providing a standard Fedora installation with additional...

Mesa3D as principally the collection of Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is up to 2,996,270 lines of code (and documentation / associated scripts) within its Git tree! That should put it over the three million mark very soon while the Git activity was up by about 20% in 2019...

Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Fedora 32 is likely to make use of systemd's sysusers.d functionality for packages declaring new system users as part of the package installation process. This change proposal is being led by Red Hat's Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek of their systemd team...

New USB cable kills your Linux laptop if stolen in a public place  ZDNet

Linux Mint 19.3 is here and better than ever  ZDNet

Python 2.7 Reaches End of Life After 20 Years of Development  BleepingComputer

Microphone audio capture arrives in Linux on Chromebooks. Here's how to use it  About Chromebooks

Up to now the most recent Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux has been using Comet Lake processors while now the 10th Generation XPS 13 Developer Edition has been announced with Ice Lake processors...

Dell Finally Rolls Out XPS 13 Developer Edition With Ice Lake, Fingerprint Reader  Phoronix