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My first memory of playing with a computer was through an MS-DOS terminal on the x86 PC in my grandfather's pharmaceutical research lab in the early '90s—playing games stored on 3.5" floppy disks and doing touch-typing exercises. As technology improved, I spent an obscene amount of time taking my computer apart to add more RAM, a new graphics card, or a new fan, mostly so I could play cooler games. It was a fun, ongoing project, and I bonded with my father over it. It was also way cheaper than buying a new computer.

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Netstat – derived from the words network and statistics – is a command-line utility used by system administrators for analyzing network statistics. It displays a whole manner of statistics such as open ports and...

Intel's crew maintaining the Scalable Video Technology open-source video encoders on Monday issued a new pre-release of SVT-AV1 in an effort to further speed-up AV1 video encoding on CPUs...

The cryptography subsystem changes for the Linux 5.5 kernel are notable...

Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard  Phoronix

Pocket Popcorn Computer Handheld Linux Computer Looks Like an Improved, Faster PocketCHIP (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

Slax cleverly reimagined Pushing the Boundaries Portable Linux Distros  Herald Journalism 24

Slax cleverly reimagined Pushing the Boundaries Portable Linux Distros  Herald Journalism 24

TablePlus prepares to launch database management app for Linux  IT Brief Australia

The Fedora Workstation working group has been weighing the matter of the GNOME Software "app store" recommending/promoting proprietary software. But this isn't something that is done out-of-the-box but rather when activating Flathub where Flatpaks can be installed for both open and closed-source software...

Linux Lite Users Are the First to Try Linux Kernel 5.4, Here's How to Install It  Softpedia News

7 great Linux gifts for the holiday season  ZDNet

Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 "ASCII" Operating System Released for Init Freedom Lovers  Softpedia News

Devuan 2.1 is available as the latest release of this spin of Debian GNU/Linux that works without a dependence on systemd. Devuan 2.1 remains focused on "init freedom" though this new release is still tracking the older Debian 9 "Stretch" branch...

Google Unveils Mendel Linux 4.0 for Its Coral SBC, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10  LXer

The in-development Linux 5.5 kernel will begin sanity checking the RdRand instruction output for randomness on CPU boot/resume due to the recent spat of AMD CPUs that have yielded non-random RdRand output...

Linux 5.5 Begins Sanity Checking RdRand Output Due To Buggy Processor Behavior  Phoronix

AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Free Sample Chapters  Neowin

Linux-powered handheld is like a PocketChip on steroids  LinuxGizmos.com

Adding to the list of changes on deck for the Linux 5.5 kernel is a new "sanitizer" for spotting data race conditions...