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Thanks to longtime open-source Linux graphics developer Daniel Stone, Wayland's Weston reference compositor now has support for the EGL_KHR_partial_update extension to provide for potentially better performance...

People with disabilities often feel excluded from society, despite laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act and the UK's Equality Act 2010 that were created to safeguard accessibility for people with different abilities. This is even true on the web. According to the Web Accessibility Initiative:

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In 2019, is there anything that the mighty, $35, credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer can't do?

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If you work with Git as your version control system, you've likely already resigned yourself to the fact that Git is a complicated beast. It is a fantastic tool, but it can be cumbersome to navigate Git repositories. That's where a tool like Tig comes in.

From the Tig man page:

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SSH is the most secure means of connecting to Linux servers remotely. And one of the common errors encountered while using SSH is the “ssh: connect to host port 22: No route to host”....

Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming  Fossbytes

Starting with Ubuntu, Valve has confirmed that it will continue to support Steam officially on Ubuntu. It seems likely that we will be able to continue to officially ...

The second alpha release for this year's PHP 7.4 release is now available for testing...

As we kick off summer, we wanted to share some of the latest awards and recognition that Red Hat has received over the last few months. Since our last award roundup, Red Hat has been honored with more than 17 new accolades across our organization.

Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu, but not Linux entirely (Update: Ubuntu support continues)  PC Gamer

Update: In a post on the official Steam for Linux community, a Valve developer said that Steam will likely continue to support Ubuntu. The reversal came after ...

Last week AMD posted more than 400 patches providing the AMD Navi support within their AMDGPU DRM kernel driver while this week has brought dozens of patches amounting to 4,293 lines as a patch for their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver in order to provide OpenGL support on these next-gen GPUs being introduced next month as the Radeon RX 5700 series...

Following all the drama caused by Canonical announcing last week they'd stop their 32-bit archive with Ubuntu 19.10 and that leading to a mess of concerns including Valve saying they would not be officially supporting Ubuntu 19.10 and later, today they issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to Linux...

Valve Reaffirms Commitment To Linux While Also Releasing Updated Proton  Phoronix

Following all the drama caused by Canonical announcing last week they'd stop their 32-bit archive with Ubuntu 19.10 and that leading to a mess of concerns ...

New Linux Worm Attacks IoT Devices  Dark Reading

A new Internet of Things (IoT) bricking worm — malware designed to permanently disable the hardware it infects — is hitting Linux-based devices, and it ...

Chrome OS 75 introduces USB support for Android devices in Linux  Neowin

Google has released another major update for Chrome OS, bringing it to version 75, on par with the Chrome browser. The update includes support for Android ...

With Debian 10 "Buster" aiming to be released in early July, a second release candidate of the Debian Installer has been made available...

SUSE Manager 4: Traditional server management marries DevOps  ZDNet

The latest SUSE Linux server management program combines the best of older sysadmin approaches with Salt DevOps.

Pay What You Want: The Complete Linux eBook Bundle  Inverse

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment.

Chrome OS 75 rolling out with Linux improvements, playing DRM video on external displays  9to5Google

After rolling out to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, version 75 of Chrome OS is now available. Notable features include Linux improvements and more ...

VESA announced their first major update to the DisplayPort interface in three years...

Tracking down library injections on Linux  Network World

Library injections are less common on Linux than they are on Windows, but they're still a problem. Here's a look at how they work and how to identify them.