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System76 Is Launching An Insanely Powerful Linux Laptop With 4K OLED Display And Intel i9-9980HK  Forbes

System76 is poised to launch a drool-worthy mobile Linux workstation with 4K OLED display, 64GB of RAM, 8TB of storage capacity and a monster 8-core Intel ...

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Officially Released, Here's What's New  Softpedia News

Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions are available now.

With this week's release of the Chrome 76 web browser, here are some fresh benchmarks of that latest Google web browser release compared to Firefox 68 on Ubuntu Linux...

Why I Switched From Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux  How-To Geek

For more than a decade, Ubuntu was my Linux distribution of choice. But, for the first time in a long while, I distro-hopped. I now run Manjaro and couldn't be ...

The MATE desktop environment is becoming usable on Wayland thanks to its support being provided by the Mir display stack...

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" is now officially available in its Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce flavors while continuing to be powered off the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS base...

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce  BetaNews

Happy Friday, y'all! What a great day it is. Yesterday, System76 excited the Linux community with a new 4K OLED laptop, and now today, a major Linux ...

Proven Linux OS Expanded to Aitech's Multi-core Remote I/O Subsystem  The Chestnut Post

Chatsworth, USA, 2019-Aug-02 — /EPR Network/ — Aitech Defense Systems, Inc., a part of the Aitech Group, has ported the cost-effective, open source Linux ...

You’ve finally made the bold decision to make a switch from Windows 10 to CentOS 7, which is a cool decision by the way. You may have tried running CentOS 7 as a virtual...

While GCC and Clang are now competing neck-and-neck on Linux x86_64 when it comes to the performance of generated binaries, when it comes to each of their initiatives to transition to Git it looks like LLVM will take the cake...

A file path is the human-readable representation of a file or folder’s location on a computer system. You’ve seen file paths, although you may not realize it, on the internet: An internet URL, despite ancient battles fought by proprietary companies like AOL and CompuServe, is actually just a path to a (sometimes dynamically created) file on someone else’s computer.

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While science is supposed to be about building on each other's findings to improve our understanding of the world around us, reproducing and reusing previously published results remains challenging, even in the age of the internet. The basic format of the scientific paper—the primary means through which scientists communicate their findings—has more or less remained the same since the first papers were published in the 18th century.

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Whether you are a maker, a teacher, or someone looking to expand your Python skillset, the BBC:Microbit has something for you. It was designed by the British Broadcasting Corporation to support computer education in the United Kingdom.

The open hardware board is half the size of a credit card and packed with an ARM processor, a three-axis accelerometer, a three-axis magnetometer, a Micro USB port, a 25-pin edge connector, and 25 LEDs in a 5x5 array.

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Installing John the Ripper on Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Security Boulevard

With great regret I finally decided to retire my 10-year-old MacBook Pro as my personal travel laptop. Part of that is I'll be attending Defcon this year to help out ...

AMD has published their instruction set architecture documentation for their new RDNA 1.0 architecture found on their new Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs and other forthcoming products...

KDE And GNOME Are Joining Hands To Build A New-Age Linux Desktop  Fossbytes

The statements issued by GNOME and KDE ahead of the event indicate that this time, we could see some concrete decisions regarding a Linux desktop.

System76 will be announcing the Adder WS laptop next week as their new high-end Linux laptop offering that features a 4K OLED display...

While Steam Play continues getting better for allowing more Windows games to run on Linux to enhance the overall Linux gaming ecosystem, Valve's latest monthly data for Steam shows another month-to-month decline in usage at least on percentage terms...

Steam Linux Usage Slipped In July According To Valve's Current Data  Phoronix

While Steam Play continues getting better for allowing more Windows games to run on Linux to enhance the overall Linux gaming ecosystem, Valve's latest ...

GNOME and KDE are coming together to sponsor the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2019 in Barcelona from November 12th to 15th, 2019. This isn't the first time the two rival Linux desktop groups have come together, but it has been a decade since they've joined forces to run a conference together. Both organizations are eager to bring their communities together to build an application ecosystem that transcends individual distros and broadens the market for everyone. (Source: ZDNet)