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The Bourne Again Shell (Bash) is a text interface to POSIX computers. A shell, Bash or otherwise, provides a way for you to talk directly to your computer without roundabout interfaces: you type the precise command you want your computer to execute. It's the most efficient and lightweight interface available, which is why it still endures after 40 years.

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Bitwarden is a fantastic tool for managing passwords. It has applications for every platform, a browser plugin, and a self-hosted version, and it offers some great password management tricks like folders and collections. One of my favorite features is that it will keep a history of your old passwords, which is a great feature for enterprise users.

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Universal Bandwidth Compression is now enabled for the open-source "TURNIP" Mesa Vulkan driver...

A unified kernel won't necessarily solve Android fragmentation  Android Authority

Linux Operating System Market 2019 Business Scenario – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Heraldresearch

An internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an identifier of a network interface that’s involved in an IPv6 computer network. If you don’t want to use Ipv6 addressing, you can opt to disable it...

Mesa 19.2.5 was just released earlier this week but now v19.2.6 has already been released due to the previous point release breaking IBM POWER builds...

Wine Patches Coming To Allow UMIP Emulation - Works Around Issues For Ryzen 3000  Phoronix

Coming up this weekend with the Linux 5.4 kernel is emulation/spoofing of the SGDT/SIDT/SMSW instructions around UMIP for allowing newer 64-bit Windows games to run on Wine and Steam Play (Proton). With newer CPUs like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series that support UMIP, these instructions are not allowed to run in user-space with Wine due to UMIP. So while the first stable kernel release is about to land with this support, some Wine-based emulation not contingent on the kernel patches is also in the works...

Security-Oriented Container Linux Gets Patched Against Latest Intel CPU Flaws  LXer

The different way to check whether you are using a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Linux on your computer  H2S Media

Android will never be supported by the 'regular' Linux kernel, but that won't stop Google from trying  Android Central

Linux for years has supported monitoring NVMe drive temperatures when installing the nvme user-space utility and run as root, etc. But now finally with Linux 5.5 the kernel is supporting NVMe drive temperature reporting through the hardware monitoring "HWMON" infrastructure alongside other hardware sensors...

Linux 5.5 To Finally Expose NVMe Drive Temperatures Via HWMON  Phoronix

Yocto-based Torizon distro adds OTA updater  LinuxGizmos.com

For those wondering if it's worthwhile for performance recompiling your key Linux binaries with the microarchitecture instruction set extensions and tuning for Ice Lake, here are some GCC compiler benchmarks looking at that impact for the Core i7 1065G7 on the Dell XPS 7390.

Blender 2.81 is now available as the latest minor yet significant update to this open-source 3D modeling software following the major Blender 2.80 release earlier this year...

Rancher CEO on k3s: Kubernetes is the new Linux; you run it everywhere  SiliconANGLE

While releasing the game on time might be more of a challenge, Valve did deliver in announcing Half-Life: Alyx as scheduled as their new flagship virtual-reality game...

Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support  Phoronix