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How to safely open any USB device  Popular Science

Companies like to hand out USB drives like candy. At media functions, for example, these flash storage devices contain product photos, press information, and ...

Working on Linux's nuts and bolts at Linux Plumbers  ZDNet

Once a year, Linux's top developers meet at Linux Plumbers and the Kernel Summit to hash out problems and concerns with Linux development. Here's what ...

While days too late for squeezing into GNOME 3.34.0, the GNOME Shell has landed a one year old merge request providing various fixes and performance improvements to its extension system...

Manjaro Linux 18.1 Is Officially Released, And You Have A New Choice To Make  Forbes

Built-in FlatPak and Snap support comes to Manjaro, but you'll need to make a decision about your office suite.

The third release candidate of the belated Mesa 19.2 is now available while a fourth and likely final RC is expected next week while the stable release of this quarterly Mesa3D update should be out at month's end...

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2  The Register

Microsoft has updated the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to support Arm64 devices for the wafer-thin slice of Windows Insiders using the things. The new build ...

Intel engineer Craig Topper who frequently contributes the new Intel CPU support to LLVM/Clang has made an AVX-512 behavioral change for next spring's LLVM Clang 10 release...

One of the best and most practical use-cases for sandboxed Linux apps via Flatpak or Snaps is certainly web browsers. There has been unofficial Firefox Flatpaks offered to this point but it's looking like better support for a Flatpak'ed Firefox could be coming down the pipe soon...

Manjaro 18.1 "Juhraya" is now available as the newest six-month feature release to this Arch Linux based operating system...

While the NVIDIA 435 series is now stable, for those sticking to the previous NVIDIA 430 driver series that is their current "long-lived" driver branch, a new version is available...

Huawei Just Started Selling Laptops With Deepin Linux Pre-Installed  Forbes

Some of the best laptops on the market are now shipping with Deepin Linux pre-installed.

Arch Linux-based Manjaro 18.1.0 'Juhraya' now available with GNOME, KDE, or Xfce  BetaNews

Manjaro may have lofty goals of becoming a successful company, but let's be honest — users of the Linux-based operating system don't really care about that.

Habanero Qualcomm IPQ4019/IPQ4029 SoM Brings 802.11ac Wave2 WiFi to Linux Gateways and Routers  CNX Software

8devices has launched Habanero IPQ4019 / IPQ4029 systems-on-module with 802.11ac Wave2 WiFi 5 connectivity, and corresponding hardware development ...

Huawei Reportedly Shipping Cheaper MateBook Laptops With Linux in China  Beebom

Huawei Matebook laptops in China are now being offered with Linux-powered variants running a debian-based distro called 'Deepin'.

‘Far Cry New Dawn’ Never Released For Linux, But It’s Matching Windows 10 Performance Anyway  Forbes

A stunning new benchmark proves Linux can achieve performance parity with Windows – even for a title that never released on the platform.

Inflight: APEXEXPO2019: IdeaNova Technologies introduces PlayReady server for Linux  HMG Aerospace

IdeaNova Technologies is to host Microsoft PlayReady DRM server on Linux, allowing customers to deploy Inplay PlayReady License Servers the same ...

Object-relational mapping (ORM) makes life easier for application developers, in no small part because it lets you interact with a database in a language you may know (such as Python) instead of raw SQL queries. SQLAlchemy is a Python ORM toolkit that provides access to SQL databases using Python. It is a mature ORM tool that adds the benefit of model relationships, a powerful query construction paradigm, easy serialization, and much more.

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In electrical engineering, a transient fault is defined as an error condition that vanishes after the power is disconnected and restored. This is also a workaround many of us unconsciously use when we forcefully power our physical devices off and on when they're performing poorly or frozen on a blue crash screen filled with gibberish.

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Huawei selling MateBook laptops with Linux preinstalled to consumers in China  TechRepublic

For a long time, I thought all the files I saw on GitLab and GitHub with an .md extension were written in a file type exclusively for developers. That changed a few weeks ago when I started using Markdown. It quickly became the most important tool in my daily work.

Markdown makes my life easier. I just need to add a few symbols to what I'm already writing and, with the help of a browser extension or an open source program, I can transform my text into a variety of commonly used formats such as ODT, email (more on that later), PDF, and EPUB.

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