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Waves : Notorious adds Linux support to Steam Early Access  Gamasutra

Linux gamers are dedicated, passionate and deserve more support.Shrewsbury, UK - 28-07-2019 - A Native Linux version of Wavessup2;: Notorious was add.

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Is Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions are now available.

The VR Linux desktop is on its way  ZDNet

Want to use the GNOME or KDE Linux desktops on your virtual reality headset? A new open-source project aims to let you play games and use your Linux ...

Linux Kernel 5.1 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.2  Softpedia News

Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Linux 5.1 kernel series has reached end of life, urging users to upgrade to the latest ...

Thanks to Valve's open-source driver developer Samuel Pitoiset, there is now experimental support for using Wave32 support on Navi graphics cards for compute shaders...

A Phoronix reader has talked about the efficiency of using Raptor Computing Systems' open-source Blackbird POWER9 desktop system for Monero cryptocurrency mining in 2019...

Well known Panama-based VPN provider NordVPN has announced their NordLynx technology today that is based on the WireGuard protocol...

NordVPN brings WireGuard-based NordLynx to Linux users  BetaNews

NordVPN has announced an important new option for users of the Linux version of its eponymous VPN tool. The company is introducing a new technology ...

Quentin Hartman  Linux Journal

Quentin Hartman is a lifelong technology enthusiast who has been working in one aspect or another of network and system administration for more than 20 ...

Continuous Integration/Continuous Development with FOSS Tools  Linux Journal

Up your DevOps game! Get the fundamentals of CI/CD with FOSS tools now! One of the hottest topics within the DevOps space is Continuous Integration and ...

We've been eagerly watching Intel's open-source LLVM-based SYCL compiler support developed over the past number of months and today it finally premiered as an experimental feature in their modern OpenCL Linux driver package...

Intel's OpenCL "NEO" Linux Driver Stack Rolls Out The Experimental SYCL Support  Phoronix

We've been eagerly watching Intel's open-source LLVM-based SYCL compiler support developed over the past number of months and today it finally premiered ...

IBM and Linux Foundation Call on Developers to Make Natural Disasters Less Deadly  IEEE Spectrum

The international Call for Code competition encourages developers to invent new technologies that can assist people after a hurricane or flood.

The NetBSD 9.0 code has now been branched and preparations underway for releasing the next version of this BSD operating system known for its vast architecture support...

Linux Software Market Business Growth 2019 – Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Microsoft  Market Research Tribune

MarketandResearch.biz has released a new market study namely Global Linux Software Market 2019 that offers a thought with perspective by the improved ...

The UBports community developers continuing to advance Ubuntu Touch have shared their latest work items and plans. OTA-10 is being developed while they are also working on ports for the PinePhone and Librem 5 smart-phones, among other items on their radar...

Linux Operating System Market 2019 Precise Outlook – Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Elementary OS, Debian, IBM  Financial Planning

The Linux Operating System market report is a most important research for who looks for complete information on the Linux Operating System market. The report ...

Lennart Poettering has made available the first release candidate of the upcoming systemd 243 update. Systemd 243 is a big one in seeing more than 1,700 commits since the April release of systemd 242...

A Bash alias is a method of supplementing or overriding Bash commands with new ones. Bash aliases make it easy for users to customize their experience in a POSIX terminal. They are often defined in $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/bash_aliases (which must be loaded by $HOME/.bashrc).

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In Part 1, I laid out the structure for a multi-file C program called MeowMeow that implements a toy codec. I also talked about the Unix philosophy of program design, laying out a number of empty files to start with a good structure from the very beginning. Lastly, I touched on what a Makefile is and what it can do for you.

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