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Released one month ago was systemd 245 RC1 while now a second release candidate is available. Systemd 245 stable should be shipping in the near future as well in order to make some of the spring Linux distribution releases like Fedora 32...

GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza, who also started the Mono project and now working at Microsoft following their 2016 acquisition of Xamarin, has penned his first blog post in nearly one year -- and it's about WebAssembly...

The first release candidate of OBS Studio 25.0 is now available for this cross-platform open-source software popular with game streamers...

SystemRescueCd 6.1 Adds WireGuard Support, Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS  LXer

SystemRescueCd 6.1 Adds WireGuard Support, Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS  LXer

DH2i DxEnterprise for SDP-Enhanced Microsoft SQL Server AGs on Linux  AiThority

Recently, at a presentation I was giving on the newer features of MySQL 8.0, I noticed one person in the audience getting very upset. The more I talked about one feature, the more agitation I could see this one person getting. We're talking upset at a level where I was wondering if I was going to worry about my physical safety. The person in question finally snapped, "If I had known about that, it would have saved me four months of my life!"

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Rust is a modern programming language that provides performance, reliability, and productivity. It has consistently been voted as the most-loved language on StackOverflow surveys for a few years now.

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I work on a lot of servers, and sometimes I find a host that hasn't installed GNU Emacs. There's usually a GNU Nano installation to keep me from resorting to Vi, but I'm not used to Nano the way I am Emacs, and I inevitably run into complications when I try to save my document (C-x in Nano stands for Exit, and C-s locks Konsole).

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‘We’re our own focus group’ – Ning Wang on security certification, training, and keeping Kali Linux on top  The Daily Swig

New communication technologies can promote and improve open organizational principles and practices—both within a company and between customers and strategic partners, leading to greater sales and business opportunities.

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DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System  Phoronix

DragonFlyBSD 5.8.0 release images began propagating tonight as the latest installment of this long ago forked FreeBSD operating system...

IBM last week made the bold announce that they will be transitioning to LLVM/Clang-based compilers across their hardware portfolio for C, C++, and Fortran compilation...

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Chrome OS 80 rolling out after delay with mouse autorotation, Linux tweaks  9to5Google

Pocket PC Cosmo Communicator Gets Linux Support  Sunriseread

WireGuard gives Linux a faster, more secure VPN  OS News

After hitting 0.9% in January for the Steam on Linux marketshare that was a high for at least the past year, the Linux gaming percentage dropped slightly for February...