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This weekend I posted some fresh benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel against upstream Linux 5.4 and found the gaming performance to be rather disappointing for that kernel flavor derived from the "Zen" patches and more. Fortunately, the Zen kernel patches now include a fix that should make their gaming performance more competitive...

Firefox 72 arrives with fingerprinting blocked by default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux  VentureBeat

Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi  Tom's Hardware

Linux Kernel "Zen" Downstream Pulls In A MuQSS Fix To Help Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Firefox 72 arrives with fingerprinting blocked by default, Picture-in-Picture on macOS and Linux  VentureBeat

Splashtop Announces Support for Remote Access to Linux Computers from Any Other Device  GlobeNewswire

Splashtop Announces Support for Remote Access to Linux Computers from Any Other Device  Yahoo Finance

Last week I reported on a possible workaround for helping AMD APUs with stability issues on recent Linux kernels. That behavior will now be the new temporary default in dealing with stability issues on Raven APUs...

AMD To Restore Retry Faults Behavior To Help With Raven Stability  Phoronix

Rockchip PX30 Display Support Coming With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Adding to the many changes on the way with Linux 5.6 is the Rockchip DRM display driver supporting the PX30 SoC...

IOTA developer builds OpenEmbedded Layer for Linux based devices  Crypto News Flash

A system admin often writes Bash scripts, some short and some quite lengthy, to accomplish various tasks.

Have you ever looked at an installation script provided by a software vendor? They often add a lot of functions and logic in order to ensure that the installation works properly and doesn’t result in damage to the customer’s system. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of various techniques for enhancing my Bash scripts, and I’d like to share some of them in hopes they can help others. Here is a collection of small scripts created to illustrate these simple examples.

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Piwheels automates building Python wheels (pre-compiled Python packages) for all of the projects on PyPI, the Python Package Index, using Raspberry Pi hardware to ensure compatibility. This means that when a Raspberry Pi user wants to install a Python library using pip, they get a ready-made compiled version that's guaranteed to work on the Raspberry Pi. This makes it much easier for Raspberry Pi users to dive in and get started with their projects.

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Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi  Tom's Hardware

The goto shell utility allows users to navigate to aliased directories and also supports autocompletion.

How it works

Before you can use goto, you need to register your directory aliases. For example:

goto -r dev /home/iridakos/development

then change to that directory, e.g.:

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A late change proposal for Fedora 32 would jump the shipped Mono package from version 5.20 to version 6.6...

Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Aiming To Ship With The Latest Mono 6 For Microsoft .NET On Linux  Phoronix

How to Install Flatpak and Snap App Store in Linux on Chromebook [GUI]  Beebom