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Cosmo Communicator – A smartphone that runs Android and Linux  Tech Lapse

As we've been expecting to happen with the Linux EFI code being cleaned up before the introduction of a new architecture, the RISC-V patches have been posted for bringing up UEFI boot support...

UEFI Boot Support Published For RISC-V On Linux  Phoronix

Besides all the usual hardware enablement activities with the usual names by Intel's massive open-source team working on the Linux kernel, one of the more peculiar bring-ups recently has been around the "Intel Gateway SoC" with more work abound for Linux 5.7...

Intel Continues Bring-Up Of New Gateway SoC Architecture On Linux, ComboPHY Driver  Phoronix

IBM, UN and Linux Foundation tackle climate crisis in 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge  TechRepublic

This smartphone allows you to use Linux alongside Android  Gizchina.com

Prominent Linux and macOS game porting firm Feral Interactive looks like it may be dissolving...

Game Porting Firm Feral Interactive's Days Could Be Numbered With Compulsory Strike-Off  Phoronix

Distributions Were For Linux, Not For Kubernetes  Forbes

Firefox Browser On Linux And Mac Gets New Security Technology  Fossbytes

Firefox Browser On Linux And Mac Gets New Security Technology  Fossbytes

The logzero library makes logging as easy as a print statement, which is quite a feat of simplicity. I'm not sure whether logzero took its name to fit in with the series of "zero boilerplate" libraries like pygame-zero, GPIO Zero, and guizero, but it's certainly in that category. It's a Python library that makes logging straightforward.

You can just use its basic logging to stdout the same way you might use print for information and debugging purposes, and it has a smooth learning curve towards more advanced logging, like logging to a file.

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Product management is an interesting career. It's immensely rewarding to be the interface between users, business strategy, engineering, and product design. And it's also a highly lucrative career with increasing demand for ambitious and empathetic practitioners.

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How to Use SUID, SGID, and Sticky Bits on Linux  How-To Geek

Whenever you're learning a new programming language, it's easy to criticize all the boilerplate text you need to memorize. Before you can get comfortable starting a project, you have to remember the preambles that, in theory, ought to be easy to remember since they're usually relatively short and repetitive. In practice, though, boilerplate text is too obscure in meaning to become an easy habit, but it's essential for a program to run.

Sometimes the text is just one line. For example, a shell script opens with a simple "shebang":

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SHAREDed is an open-source, cross-platform solution for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders. This "shader IDE" is out this week with SHADERed 1.3 that presents new capabilities...

PostgreSQL is a powerful, widely-used, open-source, multi-platform and advanced object-relational database system known for its proven architecture, reliability, data integrity, robust feature set, and extensibility. pgAdmin is an advanced, open-source, full-featured, and web-based administration...

As an obstacle for upstreaming some particularly older NVIDIA Tegra devices (namely those running Android) is that they have GPT entry at the wrong location or lacking at all for boot support. That missing or botched GPT support is because those older devices make use of a NVIDIA proprietary/closed-source table format. As such, support for this proprietary NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table is being worked on for the Linux kernel to provide better upstream kernel support on these consumer devices...

Linux Kernel Seeing Patches For NVIDIA's Proprietary Tegra Partition Table  Phoronix