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Q4OS 3.8 Released As A Traditional Desktop Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian 10.0  Phoronix

With more tier-one Linux distributions working on plans for doing away with 32-bit x86 support, if you are looking for a new distribution to play nicely with older ...

The char/misc changes with each succeeding kernel release seem to have less changes to the character device subsystem itself and more just a random collection of changes not fitting in other subsystems / pull requests. With Linux 5.3 comes another smothering of different changes...

AMD resolves Destiny 2, Linux crashes via AGESA update  bit-tech.net

AMD has confirmed that a bug causing Destiny 2 and selected Linux distributions to fail to run on its latest Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series processors will need ...

AMD resolves Destiny 2, Linux crashes via AGESA update  bit-tech.net

AMD has confirmed that a bug causing Destiny 2 and selected Linux distributions to fail to run on its latest Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series processors will need ...

Solectrix SX Mobile Device Kit Runs Linux or Android on NXP i.MX8M Mini Processor  CNX Software

Powered by NXP i.MX8M Mini, Solectrix SX Mobile Device Kit enables commercial mobile devices running Android Pie, Debian, or Yocto Linux.

Epic Games has announced that they have donated $1.2 million in cash towards the Blender Project, an open source tool to create 3D graphics animation and even entire games. This award is part of the Epic MegaGrants Initiative which Epic Games has committed $100 million. This program was created to help game developers, students, professionals, and creators. [Source: TheOuterHaven]

Linux kernel announces a patch to allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range  Packt Hub

Last month, the team behind Linux kernel announced a patch that allows 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range. This patch allows for these 16m new IPv4 ...

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database management system that uses and expands the SQL language combined with numerous features that safely keep and scale the most complex data workloads....

What is POSIX, and why does it matter? It's a term you've likely seen in technical writing, but it often gets lost in a sea of techno-initialisms and jargon-that-ends-in-X. I emailed Dr. Richard Stallman (better known in hacker circles as RMS) to find out more about the term's origin and the concept behind it.

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If you are a programmer or a student pursuing computer science or a similar discipline, sooner or later, you will encounter the term "software design pattern." According to Wikipedia, "a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design." Here is my take on the definition: When you have been working on a coding project for a while, you often begin to think, "Huh, this seems redundant.

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Have you ever daydreamed about what type of movie "A Day in the Life of [Your Name Here]" would be? As a sysadmin or other IT professional, your day can vary depending on what issues arise. Does your workday typically play out as planned, or does it tend to go off script? Which movie genre best describes your typical day?

Superhero blockbuster: When you save the day after Thanos deletes the world's DNS records, you might feel like one of the Avengers.

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While OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 was just released last month, we are already looking forward to OpenMandriva 4.1 for a number of improvements and some new features...

Various Chrome OS hardware platform support improvements have made it into the Linux 5.3 kernel for those after running other Linux distributions on Chromebooks and the like as well as reducing Google's maintenance burden with traditionally carrying so much material out-of-tree...

The UBIFS file-system for usage on un-managed flash memory devices now has support for Zstd compression...

Vulkan has been sticking to its weekly release regiment this summer. While recent weekly updates have introduced new Vulkan extensions, with today's Vulkan 1.1.115 release there are not any new extensions in tow...

I2Som PanGu, an STM32MP1 powered Raspberry Pi Linux alternative that costs ~US$72.50  Notebookcheck.net

The PanGu is an STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 powered single-board computer (SBC), which should offer good value for money for some developers.

How to run .sh or Shell Script file in Windows 10  TWCN Tech News

You can run .SH or Shell Script files in Windows 10 either using Windows Subsystem on Linux or install Ubuntu and then execute the scripts.

Best free email program for Windows, Mac and Linux  Komando

With the number of business and consumer emails sent and received every day expected to exceed 293 billion this year, it seems everyone's inbox is always ...

While newer Linux distributions have run into problems on the new AMD Zen 2 desktop CPUs (fixed by a systemd patch or fundamentally by a BIOS update) and DragonFlyBSD needed a separate boot fix, FreeBSD 12.0 installed out-of-the-box fine on the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X test system with ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi motherboard.

For those that generally wait for the first point release before upgrading to a new kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 5.2.1 this Sunday morning...