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Firefox 70 Is Now Available to Download with Fresh New Look, Extended Dark Mode  Softpedia News

Audio capture in Linux on Chromebooks testing about to begin in Chrome OS  About Chromebooks

The Pacman 5.2 package manager for Arch Linux systems is now available with a variety of changes over earlier releases...

Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support  Phoronix

Linux on DeX support removed by Samsung in Android 10  Geeky Gadgets

Samsung Linux on DeX is dead, here are open source alternatives  SlashGear

1. Samsung Linux on DeX is dead, here are open source alternatives  SlashGear
2. Samsung discontinues Linux on DeX with Android 10 rollout  ZDNet
3. Samsung discontinues its Linux on DeX beta  Notebookcheck.net
4. Samsung won't support Linux on DeX in Android 10  The INQUIRER
5. Samsung is killing off Linux on DeX with Android 10 update  BetaNews
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A minor optimization was merged into GCC 10 last week for benefiting those on Arm compiling their code with the GNU Compiler Collection...

Linux Could Open The Door To Serious Attacks Over Wifi Signals  The Atoiz News

Well known open-source figure Ikey Doherty who rose to prominence for his work on the Solus Linux distribution and then went on to work on Intel's Clear Linux project is now having his hand at game engine development...

Disney+ does not work on Linux devices  Ghacks Technology News

Ubuntu 19.10 with codename Eoan Ermine is now here and available for install. For those of you who are eager to check the latest Ubuntu version and for all newcomers to the Linux family,...

The very much anticipated release of Ubuntu’s latest cool project is finally upon us and the dev team made sure not to disappoint. Codenamed Eoan Ermine, Ubuntu 19.10 is the next big step that...

Samsung is killing off Linux on DeX with Android 10 update  BetaNews

The original C++ Concepts technical specification has been supported by the GNU Compiler Collection since GCC 6, but for GCC 10 the latest C++20 enablement is supporting that refined version of this feature...

Disney+ doesn't work on Linux yet due to tightened Digital Rights Management  Neowin

While Qt Quick 3D has been talked up a lot recently with The Qt Company's plans for that new 3D module inside the current Qt5 and future Qt6 tool-kits, Qt 3D itself is not going away...

Samsung Discontinues Linux On DeX Starting With Android 10  Fossbytes

A shell is the command interpreter for the operating system. Bash is my favorite shell, but every Linux shell interprets the commands typed by the user or sysadmin into a form the operating system can use. When the results are returned to the shell program, it sends them to STDOUT which, by default, displays them in the terminal. All of the shells I am familiar with are also programming languages.

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A long time ago, a Linux distribution shipped an operating system along with all the software available for it. There was no concept of “third party” software because everything was a part of the distribution. Applications weren’t so much installed as they were enabled from a great big software repository that you got on one of the many floppy disks or, later, CDs you purchased or downloaded.

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