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I haven't used the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) for anything serious yet, but I'm a fan of the C++ GUI toolkit that's pretty simple to learn and (in my experience) reliable even across updates. When I found out that there was a desktop environment built with FLTK, I was eager to try it—and I was quickly glad I did. The Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is a fast and simple desktop written in C++ and FLTK for Unix desktops.

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Python had a big year in 2019. According to popular resources like GitHub and Stack Overflow, it's trending as the second most popular language in the world.

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The Zen of Python is called that for a reason. It was never supposed to provide easy-to-follow guidelines for programming. The rules are specified tersely and are designed to engage the reader in deep thought.

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This business card is a Linux computer (made from $3 in parts)  Liliputing

The open organization community at Opensource.com published more than 50 articles in 2019. That's more than 50 new, openly licensed resources to help you explore the ways open principles are changing the way we work, manage, and lead in modern organizations.

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Senior IT Developer-Linux job with EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY | 190606  Times Higher Education (THE)

We've been covering Intel's Tiger Lake hardware enablement for Linux since the early patches were posted this summer and that quickly followed with

Intel Tiger Lake + Jasper Lake Power Management Support Prepped For Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Hybrid graphics and DisplayLink docks create Linux pain for laptops  Mash Viral

Hybrid graphics and DisplayLink docks create laptop Linux pain  ZDNet

In a rather unusual twist, the Hyperbola GNU/Linux distribution that is approved by the Free Software Foundation for being free software and making use of the Linux-libre kernel has now decided they are going to fork OpenBSD and become a BSD...

FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Switching Out The Linux Kernel For Hard Fork Of OpenBSD  Phoronix

Intel's open-source graphics driver team responsible for their kernel graphics driver (the i915 Direct Rendering Manager driver) have sent out their first (big) batch of new material to DRM-Next for collection ahead of the Linux 5.6 merge window opening in just over one month's time...

Intel Sends Out A Big Christmas Update Of Graphics Driver Changes Aiming For Linux 5.6  Phoronix

For those still running a GeForce 8 or 9 series graphics card, you really ought to consider upgrading this holiday season. Even the cheapest of recent generation NVIDIA GPUs should deliver better performance and far better efficiency over those older GPUs, but in any case, NVIDIA released the 340.108 Linux driver as part of their legacy maintenance support...

NVIDIA Releases 340.108 Linux Driver Providing Updated Legacy Support For GeForce 8 / 9  Phoronix

A month ago I posted benchmarks looking at the performance of Linux 4.16 through Linux 5.4 kernels using an Intel Core i9 workstation. Stemming from that was a request for an AMD EPYC kernel comparison, so I carried out said tests. Due to the Rome support being newer, this round of testing is looking at the EPYC 7642 performance on Linux 5.0 to Linux 5.4...

Linux Fu: WSL Tricks Blur The Windows/Linux Line  Hackaday

The Ethernet driver for supporting Cavium's Octeon SoCs is slated for removal in the Linux 5.6 cycle...

Cavium Octeon's Ethernet Driver Being Booted From Linux 5.6  Phoronix