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SUSE Brings Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud to Meet Growing Demand for Cloud-Based Business Deployments  PRNewswire

Linux kernel is getting more reliable, says Linus Torvalds. Plus: What do you need to do to be him?  The Register

Deprecated for the upcoming GCC 10 compiler release and set for removal in GCC 11 one year later is the CC0 representation code that is being used for handle condition codes in GCC back-ends. That in turn means a number of older CPU targets will be removed in GCC 11 should they not receive some development attention to transition them to the modern MODE_CC representation...

While many fled from GitHub to GitLab following Microsoft acquiring the code hosting service, GitLab has come under a bit of fire of its own with plans they had been working on around telemetry support that would begin tracking its users and potentially sharing the data with third-party firms...

Google Chrome seventy eight for Home windows, macOS and Linux is Now Readily available For Download  asume tech

Latest Windows 10 20H1 preview brings Linux memory improvements - and more ways to express yourself  ZDNet

Fedora 31 Linux distribution is out: here is what is new  Ghacks Technology News

Linux shows its mettle when it comes to new cloud and edge applications  Data Economy

We first wrote about the Landlock Linux security module in 2016 with its aspirations for offering powerful security sandboxing abilities. Landlock has seen revisions every few months and this week marks the 11th time the patches have been volleyed for this interesting sandboxing Linux Security Module (LSM)...

Landlock Revved An 11th Time For Unprivileged Yet Powerful Security Sandboxes  Phoronix

Ansible has long been seen as more than configuration management—it's an orchestrator more than anything, a conductor of the orchestra rather than playing a singular instrument. Since realising this, various tech communities have used Ansible to automate some interesting technology arenas.

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Awk is a powerful text-parsing tool for Unix and Unix-like systems, but because it has programmed functions that you can use to perform common parsing tasks, it's also considered a programming language. You probably won't be developing your next GUI application with awk, and it likely won't take the place of your default scripting language, but it's a powerful utility for specific tasks.

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Graphical user interface (GUI) test automation is broken. Regression testing is not testing; it's version control for a software's behavior. Here's my assertion: test automation without assertions works better!

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Diagrams are a great means for us to connect with information and process its significance; they help in communicating relationships and abstract information and enable us to visualize concepts. The flowchart and diagramming tools...

Fedora 31 Officially Released with GNOME 3.34 and Linux 5.3, Drops 32-Bit Support  LXer

In addition to Mir's other road-map items around replaceable renderers and hybrid graphics driver support, it also turns out the Canonical developers involved are working on expanding the graphics platform support...

The open-source MoltenVK is out with another new update based against the Vulkan 1.1.126 specification and allowing the Vulkan API to be used on Apple's macOS and iOS by mapping those calls to the underlying Metal graphics drivers...

Cleaning up of the Pango layout engine library as some much needed housekeeping by GNOME developers resulted in shifting to the Harfbuzz library for font loading. That quietly meant dropping support for bitmap fonts from Pango, which is now reaching Linux desktop users when upgrading to the Pango 1.44 stable release...

Pango Dropping Support For Bitmap Fonts Is Frustrating Some Linux Desktop Users  Phoronix

Fedora 31 is here — download the world's best desktop Linux distribution now  BetaNews