Open-source News

CrossOver 19 Enters Beta With Better Microsoft Office Support On Linux  Phoronix

IPFire Open-Source Linux Firewall Gets Improved and Faster QoS, Latest Updates  Softpedia News

AMD just sent out their press release for SuperComputing 19 week in Denver. It turns out being released for SC19 is the latest major iteration of Radeon Open Compute, ROCm 3.0...

HP Linux Imaging & Printing Drivers Now Supported on Ubuntu 19.10 and Fedora 31  Softpedia News

Linux Kernel 5.4 to Arrive on November 24th as Linus Torvalds Releases Last RC  Softpedia News

23-Way Graphics Card Comparison With Shadow of the Tomb Raider On Linux  Phoronix

Earlier this month Feral Interactive released the Linux port of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. For those wondering about the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce performance for this Vulkan-powered Linux game port, here are benchmark results on 23 different graphics cards.

A Linux Performance Look At AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X  Techgage

Vulkan 1.1.128 is out with various corrections and clarifications to this graphics/compute API specification but it also comes with one exciting new extension...

GCC 10 has moved to its next stage of development that shifts away from feature work to instead general bug fixing with hopes of shipping the GNU Compiler Collection 10 release in the months ahead...

1. Cumulus Networks unveils updates to its Linux OS and NetQ  FierceTelecom
2. Cumulus Linux 4.0 Supports New Mellanox, Broadcom Chips and Facebook Minipack  SDxCentral
3. Cumulus Networks Unveils Its 4th-Generation of Open, Modern Network Software  RealWire
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Cumulus Networks unveils updates to its Linux OS and NetQ  FierceTelecom

SUSE developer Giovanni Gherdovich has sent out the latest patches on supporting frequency invariance within the kernel's scheduler code and ultimately making use of it for select Intel CPUs to yield not only better raw performance but also power efficiency...

Schedutil Frequency Invariance Revised For Better Intel Performance + Power Efficiency  Phoronix

Debian 10.2 Buster Linux distribution releases with the latest security and bug fixes  Packt Hub

Linux Operating System Market Competitive Analysis 2019-2026 by Companies IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Banking Industry

Linux Operating System Market Competitive Analysis 2019-2026 by Companies IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Banking Industry

The Linux operating system is a true multi-user OS, meaning it assumes that there's data on every computer that should be protected, whether in the interest of privacy, security, or system integrity.

Linux uses file ownership and permissions to manage file and folder access. 

For administrators who deal with different user environments all day, this system is easy to understand, calculate, and control.

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Multiple times every day, you visit websites that ask you to log in with your username or email address and password. Banking websites, social networking sites, email services, e-commerce sites, and news sites are just a handful of the types of sites that use this mechanism.

Every time you sign into one of these sites, you are, in essence, saying, "yes, I trust this website, so I am willing to share my personal information with it." This data may include your name, gender, physical address, email address, and sometimes even credit card information.

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In awk, regular expressions (regex) allow for dynamic and complex pattern definitions. You're not limited to searching for simple strings but also patterns within patterns.

The syntax for using regular expressions to match lines in awk is:

word ~ /match/

The inverse of that is not matching a pattern:

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