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Microsoft Wants exFAT File System Technology In The Linux Kernel  Forbes

First Microsoft added a real Linux kernel to Windows 10. Now Redmond wants to see exFAT in the mainline Linux kernel.

HTTPie is a delightfully easy to use and easy to upgrade HTTP client. Pronounced "aitch-tee-tee-pie" and run as http, it is a command-line tool written in Python to access the web.

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In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer).

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When SparkFun Electronics founder and CEO Nathan Seidle was an engineering student at the University of Colorado, he was taught, "Real engineers come up with an idea and patent that idea." However, his experience with SparkFun, which he founded from his college apartment in 2003, is quite the opposite.

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The Extended File Allocation Table (ExFAT) Is Headed To Linux  ItsChromeOS News

Say what you will about Microsoft, but under the guidance of Satya Nadella, the mega-corporation has been completely transformed. In 2006, Microsoft launched ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, which views the world as a collection of objects that have both properties and behavior. Java's version of object-orientedness is pretty straightforward, and it's the basis for almost everything in the language. Because it's so essential to Java, I'll explain a bit about what's under the covers to help anyone new to the language.

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Rapid TV News - BuyDRM launches Linux support for DRM  Rapid TV News

BuyDRM has announced Linux support for its MultiKey Server, a multi-DRM software platform specifically designed for deployments in remote or limited ...

pgAdmin is an open-source, powerful and feature-rich graphical user interface (GUI) administration and management tool for PostgreSQL database. Currently, it supports PostgreSQL 9.2 or later, and runs on Unix and its variants such as...

While NVIDIA is focused upon their CUDA-based video encode/decode solution moving forward, they do continue supporting and maintaining their existing VDPAU-based video decode stack. Of the driver-neutral VDPAU library (libvdpau) on Wednesday they issued the newest update...

Genode OS as the operating system framework with a micro-kernel abstraction layer and other components is out today with their newest update. Genode OS Framework 19.08 is the new version that will ultimately power their Sculpt OS general purpose operating system...

We’re excited to announce that for the ninth consecutive year, the Red Hat Customer Portal has been named one of the "Top Ten Best Support Websites" by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP). 

GNOME Wants to Make Linux Firmware Updates Easier to Deploy with New Tool  LXer

Long-time GNOME developer Richard Hughes talks in his latest blog post about a new tool that will be integrated in future versions of the GNOME desktop ...

Raven Ridge APUs brought the DCN 1.0 "Display Core Next" engine, Navi GPUs upped that to a DCN 2.0 implementation for the display engine, and now the Renoir APUs are ushering in DCN 2.1. This is a bit interesting particularly with Renoir being a Vega-based GPU and not Navi as one would have hoped prior to the Vega confirmation in the earlier patches...

HP Linux Imaging & Printing Drivers Now Support Linux Mint 19.2 and Debian 10  LXer

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) initiative has released a new version of their drivers for HP printers and scanner to support them on Linux-based ...

Microsoft Wants exFAT in Linux Kernel, Opens File System Specs  BleepingComputer

Microsoft announced today that it supports the inclusion of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) file system for USB flash drives and SD cards in the Linux ...

Virglrenderer 0.8 was released last week as one of the components to the "Virgl" graphics stack for getting OpenGL acceleration working within KVM+QEMU guests that is in good enough shape for handling relatively recent GL/GLES Linux games and other workloads...

Microsoft brings its ubiquitous exFAT file system to Linux  SiliconANGLE News

In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software ...

Microsoft's "Philanthropic" Services Continue exFAT File System To Make Its Way On Linux Kernel  Appuals

We know that quite recently, Microsoft has shown its willingness to work with its rival companies. They already reached out to Sony and Nintendo to share.

The Librem 5 smartphone is still advertised as shipping in Q3'2019 though it looks next to impossible with just one month left in the quarter. Purism CTO Nicole Faerber presented at CCC's Camp 2019 and the phone wasn't demoed but pictures of the Librem 5 PCB were on display...

Cloud-based OTA manager for IoT is now free for up to three Linux devices  LinuxGizmos.com

UpSwift is offering a free lifetime subscription to makers and developers who want to manage up to three Linux-based devices with the UpSwift cloud-based IoT ...