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Intel's Rafael Wysocki who oversees the kernel's power management area has sent in his relevant pull requests for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

Linux 5.7 Power Management Includes Fixes, Tiny Power Button Driver  Phoronix

Sway's Wayland compositor recently added Variable Refresh Rate / Adaptive-Sync support to help avoid tearing and stuttering while now GNOME's Mutter is working on similar VRR support on the desktop...

Intel used AMD code to get a 10% frame-rate boost in some Linux games  TechRadar India

Following the release of Linux 5.6 and WireGuard 1.0 declared, Google has now enabled WireGuard within their Android open-source Linux kernel build...

Last year Intel outlined the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) as a feature on future Intel CPUs for high-performance data movement and transformation operations for networking and storage / persistent memory. We are now seeing more of the Intel DSA work beginning to take shape for the Linux kernel...

Intel Begins Prepping More Linux Code For Data Streaming Accelerator In Sapphire Rapids  Phoronix

To date Fedora has defaulted to Java 1.8 / OpenJDK 8 as the default system JDK version but for Fedora 33 later this year they plan to transition to OpenJDK 11...

This 5G Phone Runs Linux and Doubles as a Tiny Laptop with a Physical Keyboard  Softpedia News

Redmi Okay30 Professional Linux Kernel Souce Code is now stay [Download Now]  Global News Hut

Canonical To Bring New Tools And Ubuntu Linux Support For Raspberry Pi  Fossbytes

Redmi K30 Pro Linux Kernel Souce Code is now live [Download Now]  DigiStatement

My job title is senior software engineer, but that's not what my closest co-workers call me. They call me "Cherrybomb" because of all the things I blow up. My regularly scheduled failures have been tracked down to our quarterly earnings and outage times. Literally, I am the production disaster you read about that says, "what not to do ever, in any case, at any time."

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Vim is one of the most popular text editors out there, so it is definitely worth taking time to learn how to use it. If the only things you learn how to do with the ubiquitous Vi(m) command-line text editor are to open a file, enter and edit some text, save the edited files, and exit the program, you will be much better off for it.

Circumstances where you will find it extremely convenient to know Vim nearly always involve tasks running remote shell operations. If you regularly use secure shell: 

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Linux 5.6 Debuts with Wireguard Secure VPN for Remote Networking  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet

Pastebin.com and similar websites make it quick and easy to share snippets of code, data, or text. Pastebin sites are often used when filing bug reports because projects often request that lengthy files or log outputs are put into a separate site. Sharing (non-sensitive) data over a pastebin site is helpful for doing this type of troubleshooting or collaboration while keeping bug reports easy to read.

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It’s not uncommon for users to forget their root password. This happens especially if you haven’t logged in as the root user for long periods of time. In this brief guide, we will walk...

Ingo Molnar on Monday began sending in his feature pull requests for the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window. Of the pull requests worth noting are the EFI changes...

Linux 5.7 EFI Changes: "The GRUB Project Is Showing Signs Of Life Again"  Phoronix

Linux 5.7's USB Changes Range From Apple Fast Charging To Reporting USB-C Orientation  Phoronix