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Systemd has begun harvesting the automatic suspend rules from ChromeOS for determining which USB devices support automatic suspend well out-of-the-box on Linux...

Java is a secure, stable, and well known, general-purpose programming language and computing technology platform with many interconnected capabilities. To run Java-based applications, you must have Java installed on your server. You mostly need...

GNOME, Java, Jupyter, Python. If your friends or family members have ever eavesdropped on your work conversations, they might think you've made a career in Renaissance folklore, coffee roasting, astronomy, or zoology. Where did the names of these open source technologies come from? We asked our writer community for input and rounded up some of our favorite tech name origin stories.

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Imagine not having access to a software's source code but still being able to understand how the software is implemented, find vulnerabilities in it, and—better yet—fix the bugs. All of this in binary form. It sounds like having superpowers, doesn't it?

You, too, can possess such superpowers, and the GNU binary utilities (binutils) are a good starting point. The GNU binutils are a collection of binary tools that are installed by default on all Linux distributions.

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AMDGPU Performance In Linux 5.4 Is Now Faster With "Bulk Moves" Landed  Phoronix

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The quantum vision of reality is both strange and mesmerizing at the same time. As theoretical physicist Michio Kaku once said, "Common sense has no place in quantum mechanics."

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This Newly Proposed Linux Memory Controller To Save Up To 42% RAM  Fossbytes

Neil Trevett, the president of the Khronos Group, presented at the X.Org Developers' Conference for the first time. During his presentation on Wednesday he covered their usual initiatives, how Khronos engages in open-source and open standards, and related bits -- plus a few interesting ones...

Not particularly surprising considering Fedora tends to always ship with a bleeding-edge toolchain, but for their Fedora 32 release to kick off 2020 they are planning for GNU Binutils 2.33...

Microsoft Looking For Help From Linux Developers to Port Edge to Linux  WebProNews

One of the interesting reveals so far from this week's X.Org Developers' Conference in Montreal is that Intel has been developing a new back-end compiler for their OpenGL/Vulkan Linux drivers based upon their experiences so far with their NIR support and the less learned over the past number of years...

Intel's open-source crew has had a busy week with their first public OpenVKL release, OSPray 2 hitting alpha, and now the release of MKL-DNN where they are also re-branding it as the Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL)...

Flatpak 1.5 Linux App Sandboxing Rolls Out with New Features, Many Improvements  Softpedia News

Watch: Ubuntu Touch Running on the PinePhone Open Source Linux Smartphone  Softpedia News

Top 10 Linux distributions OS most popular in last 6 months of 2019  H2S Media

For those wondering about the current performance of desktop Linux distributions against Microsoft Windows 10 with the latest updates as we embark upon fall update season, here is a look at the performance of eight different Linux distributions compared to Windows 10. While a larger set of cross-platform tests are currently being worked on, for this article we are focusing on different "creator" workloads from video/audio encoding, render workloads, and related software prior to the larger comparison in the next week or two.

Mozilla Firefox 69.0.2 Released to Fix YouTube Crash on Linux, Other Issues  Softpedia News

The Blender 2.81 release cycle has entered its "bcon2" development phase of development with the focus shifting to bug fixing and stabilizing new features with now being past the initial window of merging in the big ticket items...

Newsboat is a command line based RSS feed reader for Linux  Ghacks Technology News

As was anticipated, PostgreSQL 12.0 is now officially available...