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Microsoft Loves Linux: exFAT Offered for Linux Kernel Inclusion  Softpedia News

Redmond wants exFAT to be included in Linux kernel.

As a follow-up to the recent story on AMD looking to land Navi 14 support in the imminent Mesa 19.2, that code for the smaller Navi GPU did successfully land into Mesa 19.3-devel and was back-ported to the 19.2 series for the upcoming 19.2.0 stable release...

1. Microsoft publishes exFAT spec as it attempts to woo Linux  The INQUIRER
2. ExFAT is on its way to the Linux kernel  ZDNet
3. Microsoft Opens Up exFAT File System Technology, Wants It In The Linux Kernel  Forbes
4. Microsoft Brought exFAT File System to Linux, But Some Devs Aren't Happy  Tom's Hardware
5. news digest: Microsoft adds exFAT technology to the Linux kernel, SmartBear announces acquisition of BitBar, and ActiveState replaces Readme with CLI tool - SD Times  SDTimes.com
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Microsoft publishes exFAT specs as it attempts to woo Linux  The INQUIRER

MICROSOFT'S LICKY LOVE-IN with Linux continues, as it announces plans to bring its proprietary exFAT file format to the open-source. The tech behemoth ...

Open Source Wins: Microsoft Is Bringing exFAT File System To Linux Kernel  Fossbytes

Microsoft which has recently become a big Linux fanboy is removing its hold on the patents related to the exFAT file system.This move comes after the company ...

Microsoft Wants exFAT File System Technology In The Linux Kernel  Forbes

First Microsoft added a real Linux kernel to Windows 10. Now Redmond wants to see exFAT in the mainline Linux kernel.

HTTPie is a delightfully easy to use and easy to upgrade HTTP client. Pronounced "aitch-tee-tee-pie" and run as http, it is a command-line tool written in Python to access the web.

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In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer).

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When SparkFun Electronics founder and CEO Nathan Seidle was an engineering student at the University of Colorado, he was taught, "Real engineers come up with an idea and patent that idea." However, his experience with SparkFun, which he founded from his college apartment in 2003, is quite the opposite.

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The Extended File Allocation Table (ExFAT) Is Headed To Linux  ItsChromeOS News

Say what you will about Microsoft, but under the guidance of Satya Nadella, the mega-corporation has been completely transformed. In 2006, Microsoft launched ...

Java is an object-oriented programming language, which views the world as a collection of objects that have both properties and behavior. Java's version of object-orientedness is pretty straightforward, and it's the basis for almost everything in the language. Because it's so essential to Java, I'll explain a bit about what's under the covers to help anyone new to the language.

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Rapid TV News - BuyDRM launches Linux support for DRM  Rapid TV News

BuyDRM has announced Linux support for its MultiKey Server, a multi-DRM software platform specifically designed for deployments in remote or limited ...

pgAdmin is an open-source, powerful and feature-rich graphical user interface (GUI) administration and management tool for PostgreSQL database. Currently, it supports PostgreSQL 9.2 or later, and runs on Unix and its variants such as...

While NVIDIA is focused upon their CUDA-based video encode/decode solution moving forward, they do continue supporting and maintaining their existing VDPAU-based video decode stack. Of the driver-neutral VDPAU library (libvdpau) on Wednesday they issued the newest update...

Genode OS as the operating system framework with a micro-kernel abstraction layer and other components is out today with their newest update. Genode OS Framework 19.08 is the new version that will ultimately power their Sculpt OS general purpose operating system...

We’re excited to announce that for the ninth consecutive year, the Red Hat Customer Portal has been named one of the "Top Ten Best Support Websites" by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP). 

GNOME Wants to Make Linux Firmware Updates Easier to Deploy with New Tool  LXer

Long-time GNOME developer Richard Hughes talks in his latest blog post about a new tool that will be integrated in future versions of the GNOME desktop ...

Raven Ridge APUs brought the DCN 1.0 "Display Core Next" engine, Navi GPUs upped that to a DCN 2.0 implementation for the display engine, and now the Renoir APUs are ushering in DCN 2.1. This is a bit interesting particularly with Renoir being a Vega-based GPU and not Navi as one would have hoped prior to the Vega confirmation in the earlier patches...

HP Linux Imaging & Printing Drivers Now Support Linux Mint 19.2 and Debian 10  LXer

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) initiative has released a new version of their drivers for HP printers and scanner to support them on Linux-based ...

Microsoft Wants exFAT in Linux Kernel, Opens File System Specs  BleepingComputer

Microsoft announced today that it supports the inclusion of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) file system for USB flash drives and SD cards in the Linux ...