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He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech  The Register

Linus Torvalds has articulated what much of the world has known for some time, with a merge marking the Linux floppy driver as "orphaned". The issue is that ...

Unity 2019.2 rolled out today as the latest quarterly feature update for this very popular cross-platform game engine...

Arch-based Linux distribution Manjaro has issued their newest testing update with some controversial changes...

Bash Shell Games: Let's Play Go Fish!  Linux Journal

How to begin developing a computer version of the popular card game. Between the previous 163 columns I've written here in Linux Journal and the dozens of ...

Keynote Speakers Announced for the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference Europe  Longview News-Journal

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation today announced the keynote speakers for its Open Source Summit Europe (OSSEU), ...

Keynote Speakers Announced for the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference Europe  Yahoo Finance

Premier open source event showcases existing and emerging technologies across the tech sector and brings together open source and community visionaries ...

Linux Lite 4.6 RC1 operating system now available  Geeky Gadgets

Linux users, developers and enthusiasts may be interested to know that the Linux Lite 4.6 RC1 operating system is now available to download and is free.

The open-source MoltenVK project that offers Vulkan API support for Apple devices on iOS and macOS is out with a new release for mapping Vulkan atop Apple's Metal graphics/compute stack...

Last week I wrote about the GCC 10 compiler picking up a new scheduler model and cost tables for AMD Zen 2 CPUs to build off the initial "znver2" microarchitecture target from last year. Fortunately, those Znver2-specific improvements have now been back-ported to the GCC 9 compiler branch so it will see user systems with not as long of a wait until GCC 10 stable...

Valve's interesting ACO shader compiler alternative to AMDGPU LLVM currently for the RADV Vulkan driver as well as for RadeonSI OpenGL in the future now can handle vertex shaders...

An introduction to WSL 2  InfoWorld

At its recent Build conference Microsoft introduced the second version of its Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's a major reworking of the original WSL concept, ...

Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Specifications Finalized  CNX Software

If you were interested in purchasing, or more exactly pre-ordering, a privacy focused, open source Linux smartphone with clearly defined hardware.

In continuation of the article last week how the RISC-V Linux kernel support has been maturing and various missing gaps filled in, another feature just arrived in patch form: support for KVM virtualization...

"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."‒U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, 2004

I spent seventeen years working in higher education, both as a campus technology leader and as an adjunct professor. Today, I continue as an adjunct professor. I know firsthand that educational technology is invaluable to the teaching and learning mission of universities—and that it changes at a rapid pace.

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So, you know how to use git. You have a GitHub repo and can push to it. All is well. But how the heck do you contribute to other people's GitHub projects? That is what I wanted to know after I learned git and GitHub. In this article, I will explain how to fork a git repo, make changes, and submit a pull request.

When you want to work on a GitHub project, the first step is to fork a repo.

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As a technical search engine optimizer, I am always looking for ways to use data in novel ways to better understand how Google ranks websites. I recently investigated whether Google's Natural Language API could better inform how Google may be classifying a site's content.

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Have you ever fancied a portable instance of a CentOS 7 installation in your USB pen drive? You probably might not have known it, but you can easily install CentOS 7 in a USB...

In addition to new patches coming out on Monday for addressing power management with AMD's unreleased "Arcturus" GPU, a set of Mesa patches were merged for adding RadeonSI Gallium3D driver support...

While LLVM 9.0 was branched nearly two weeks ago and it was anticipated that the release candidate would immediately follow, only yesterday did 9.0-RC1 materialize...

Microsoft Buys Open Source Data Privacy Company | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a start-up whose software can prevent people from accessing certain high-value data that companies keep. Terms of the deal ...