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The GNOME Foundation has kicked off their Coding Education Challenge for promoting programming around free/open-source software and with Endless Computers providing the $500,000 USD for prize money...

Linux Software Market Innovative Strategy by 2025 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL  SocioHerald

A new market research report from Stats & Reports, the Global Linux Software Market 2019-25, is expected to show tremendous growth in the coming years.

If you are a Python developer using MacOS and involved with Ansible administration, you may want to use the Conda package manager to keep your Ansible work separate from your core OS and other local projects.

Ansible is based on Python. Conda is not required to make Ansible work on MacOS, but it does make managing Python versions and package dependencies easier. This allows you to use an upgraded Python version on MacOS and keep Python package dependencies separate between your system, Ansible, and other programming projects.

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Every object on your Linux system has a permission mode that describes what actions a user can perform on it. There are three types of permissions: read (r), write (w), and execute (x).

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Environment variables contain information about your login session, stored for the system shell to use when executing commands. They exist whether you’re using Linux, Mac, or Windows. Many of these variables are set by default during installation or user creation.

While environment variables apply to all modern systems, this article specifically addresses environment variables in the Bash shell on Linux, BSD, Mac, and Cygwin.

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Java is one of the most popular and widely used programming languages. Currently, a myriad of software applications depends on Java to function as required for instance Android Studio. Java comes in 3 different...

Linux Operating System Market 2019 In-depth Analysis by Leading Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Pledge Times

Global Linux Operating System Market Research Report comprises holistic business information and changing trends in the market that enables users to spot ...

20-Way Linux Graphics Card Comparison For Total War: Three Kingdoms  Phoronix

Total War: Three Kingdoms is the newest Linux game port from Feral Interactive and saw a same-day release back in May. While back then it was said there ...

Total War: Three Kingdoms is the newest Linux game port from Feral Interactive and saw a same-day release back in May. While back then it was said there weren't benchmarking capabilities for this game, there now is a test profile. For those wondering how Three Kingdoms performs on Linux, here is a twenty way graphics card comparison using the newest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA drivers.

Google touts managed Linux, gets cosy with Dell in Chromebook Enterprise push  The Register

Google has rolled out its "first Chromebook Enterprise devices," these being a couple of Dell Latitude laptops launched at the VMWorld shindig currently under ...

Valve's New Version Of Steam Proton For Linux Gives Game Controllers What They Deserve  Forbes

Linux gaming continues to improve at a rapid pace, thanks in no small part to Valve and its work on Proton. Today Valve has released Proton 4.11-3, which adds ...

BuyDRM Releases The KeyOS MultiKey Server For Linux With Multi-DRM Support  Yahoo Finance

Multi-DRM license delivery now available for hospitality OTT offerings. AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BuyDRM announced today ...

The beta release of Unity 2019.3 is out today for this wildly popular cross-platform game engine...

Earlier this summer we checked out the Logic Supply Karbon 300 as a well-built and very durable Linux-friendly PC for low-power environments. That Karbon 300 came equipped with a low-power Apollo Lake Atom processor while today the company announced the Karbon 700 with higher-wattage Core and Xeon CPU options for high performance IoT / edge computing...

Logic Supply Announces Karbon 700 Rugged Linux PC With Core / Xeon CPU Options  Phoronix

Earlier this summer we checked out the Logic Supply Karbon 300 as a well-built and very durable Linux-friendly PC for low-power environments. That Karbon ...

Reactive Foundation Launched Under the Linux Foundation  InfoQ.com

Curated and peer-reviewed *content* covering innovation in professional software development, read by over 1 million developers worldwide.

#OSSummit: Linux Continues to Pay the Price for CPU Hardware Vulnerabilities  Infosecurity Magazine

The many new CPU hardware security challenges that Linux developers have faced in the past year.

How to Play Adobe Flash SWF Files Outside Your Web Browser  How-To Geek

Web browsers are dropping support for Flash, but what if you have an SWF file to open? Never fear: Adobe offers a hidden Flash Player download for Windows, ...

As a possible sign that AMD Navi 14 graphics cards could be coming sooner rather than later, support for Navi 14 is slated to be back-ported to the Mesa 19.2 release due out in a few weeks rather that entered its feature freeze earlier this month rather than waiting for next quarter's Mesa 19.3...

Valve's Wine-based Proton for powering Steam Play to run Windows games on Linux is seeing more exciting work in their 4.11 branch...