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GNU Linux-Libre 5.4 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs  LXer

While the Radeon "ACO" compiler back-end performance is already looking very good in the speed department over the AMDGPU LLVM back-end for the Vulkan driver as shown in recent benchmarks, it's getting even better...

Since 2016 the Linux kernel on ARM has invoked the EFI random number generator (RNG) protocol for serving as an additional source of entropy during early boot. With Linux 5.5 in early 2020 that code is finally happening for x86/x86_64...

Linux 5.5 To Finally Wire Up EFI RNG Code For x86 As Another Source Of Entropy  Phoronix

Bash too basic? Too much whitespace in Python? Go too corporate?

You should try Lua, a lightweight, efficient, and embeddable scripting language supporting procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. And best of all, it uses explicit syntax for scoping!

Lua is also small. Lua's source code is just 24,000 lines of C, the Lua interpreter (on 64-bit Linux) built with all standard Lua libraries is 247K, and the Lua library is 421K.

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Mobile phones are becoming more powerful every day, so it is no surprise that they can beat most computers from the not-so-distant past. This also means the tools available on them are getting more powerful every day.

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My first memory of playing with a computer was through an MS-DOS terminal on the x86 PC in my grandfather's pharmaceutical research lab in the early '90s—playing games stored on 3.5" floppy disks and doing touch-typing exercises. As technology improved, I spent an obscene amount of time taking my computer apart to add more RAM, a new graphics card, or a new fan, mostly so I could play cooler games. It was a fun, ongoing project, and I bonded with my father over it. It was also way cheaper than buying a new computer.

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Netstat – derived from the words network and statistics – is a command-line utility used by system administrators for analyzing network statistics. It displays a whole manner of statistics such as open ports and...

Intel's crew maintaining the Scalable Video Technology open-source video encoders on Monday issued a new pre-release of SVT-AV1 in an effort to further speed-up AV1 video encoding on CPUs...

The cryptography subsystem changes for the Linux 5.5 kernel are notable...

Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard  Phoronix

Pocket Popcorn Computer Handheld Linux Computer Looks Like an Improved, Faster PocketCHIP (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

Slax cleverly reimagined Pushing the Boundaries Portable Linux Distros  Herald Journalism 24

Slax cleverly reimagined Pushing the Boundaries Portable Linux Distros  Herald Journalism 24

TablePlus prepares to launch database management app for Linux  IT Brief Australia

The Fedora Workstation working group has been weighing the matter of the GNOME Software "app store" recommending/promoting proprietary software. But this isn't something that is done out-of-the-box but rather when activating Flathub where Flatpaks can be installed for both open and closed-source software...

Linux Lite Users Are the First to Try Linux Kernel 5.4, Here's How to Install It  Softpedia News

7 great Linux gifts for the holiday season  ZDNet

Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 "ASCII" Operating System Released for Init Freedom Lovers  Softpedia News

Devuan 2.1 is available as the latest release of this spin of Debian GNU/Linux that works without a dependence on systemd. Devuan 2.1 remains focused on "init freedom" though this new release is still tracking the older Debian 9 "Stretch" branch...