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Given this week's general availability release of OpenJDK 14, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at all the major releases from OpenJDK 8 through 14 while looking at the JVM performance across multiple workloads.

The Linux Mint crew has released LMDE 4 "Debbie" as their hedge against anything dramatic happening to Ubuntu that would limit their ability to offer Linux Mint and for those preferring the upstream Debian base...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Released - Finally Supports SecureBoot, Home Encryption  Phoronix

Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems has added full MAC randomization support as well as manual MAC override capabilities, similar to the MAC spoofing capabilities generally offered by other Linux networking components...

IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support  Phoronix

IWD Linux Wireless Daemon Adds Full MAC Randomization, Override Support  Phoronix

With the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" Xe graphics are considered stable as in enabled by default but that doesn't mean they are done working on features for the highly-anticipated next-gen Intel graphics...

Intel Tiger Lake VRR Support Being Worked On For Linux, More PCI IDs Introduced  Phoronix

How to use the In command: 2-Minute Linux Tips  Network World

LibreOffice 6.4.2 Released for Linux, Windows, and Mac  Softpedia News

C++/Linux which IDE are you using or would you recommend ?  GameDev.net

Automate (Slipstream?) install of LXLE with modifications? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

C++/Linux which IDE are you using or would you recommend ?  GameDev.net

Passing the point that new feature code is generally permitted into DRM-Next for in turn hitting the next mainline kernel merge window, AMD's open-source graphics driver developers have been turning their attention to bug fixes for all the new feature code set for Linux 5.7...

5 Best Android Emulators For Linux [2020 Edition] - Free And Paid  Fossbytes

Debian GNU/Linux To Bring New Social Platforms For Debian Contributors  Fossbytes

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR in short) is a simple yet powerful, easy-to-setup, full-featured and leading open-source bare metal disaster recovery and system migration solution, written in Bash. It is a modular and configurable framework with numerous...

Social networks have revolutionized people's lives in the last several years. People use social channels every day to stay connected with friends and family. But a common question remains regarding privacy and data security. Even if social networks have created complex privacy policies to protect users, maintaining your data in your own server is always the best option if you don't want to make them available to the public.

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Everyone knows they shouldn't take shortcuts, especially in their work, and yet everyone does. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but when it comes to code development, though, it definitely does.

As any experienced programmer knows, building your code the quick and dirty way soon leads to problems down the line. These issues might not be disastrous, but they incur a small penalty every time you want to develop your code further.

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Examining files from the command-line is generally an easy thing to do. You just run the command you want, followed by a list of files to be examined. Dealing with binary files, however, is more complicated. These files are often packaged up into archives, tarballs, or other packaging formats. The run-on-binaries script provides a convenient way to run a command on a collection of files, regardless of how they are packaged.

The invocation of the script is quite simple:

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