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Rust is a modern programming language that provides performance, reliability, and productivity. It has consistently been voted as the most-loved language on StackOverflow surveys for a few years now.

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I work on a lot of servers, and sometimes I find a host that hasn't installed GNU Emacs. There's usually a GNU Nano installation to keep me from resorting to Vi, but I'm not used to Nano the way I am Emacs, and I inevitably run into complications when I try to save my document (C-x in Nano stands for Exit, and C-s locks Konsole).

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‘We’re our own focus group’ – Ning Wang on security certification, training, and keeping Kali Linux on top  The Daily Swig

New communication technologies can promote and improve open organizational principles and practices—both within a company and between customers and strategic partners, leading to greater sales and business opportunities.

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DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System  Phoronix

DragonFlyBSD 5.8.0 release images began propagating tonight as the latest installment of this long ago forked FreeBSD operating system...

IBM last week made the bold announce that they will be transitioning to LLVM/Clang-based compilers across their hardware portfolio for C, C++, and Fortran compilation...

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Chrome OS 80 rolling out after delay with mouse autorotation, Linux tweaks  9to5Google

Pocket PC Cosmo Communicator Gets Linux Support  Sunriseread

WireGuard gives Linux a faster, more secure VPN  OS News

After hitting 0.9% in January for the Steam on Linux marketshare that was a high for at least the past year, the Linux gaming percentage dropped slightly for February...

Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures  Phoronix

Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures  Phoronix

NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction  Phoronix

NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction  Phoronix

Veteran Linux engineer Nitin Gupta of NVIDIA has unveiled his latest patches on the work he got started on last year: proactive memory compaction for Linux motivated by the latency issues brought on by he current on-demand compaction when an application requests a lot of hugepages...

GNOME 3.36 will begin shipping a new application as part of the GNOME Shell to manage desktop extensions...

Watching activity on Linux with watch and tail commands  Network World