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The Qt Company has announced the availability of the Qt 5.14 Alpha release ahead of this half-year tool-kit update due out before year's end. Qt 5.14 is also the second to the last in the Qt5 series with an increasing amount of work shifting to Qt6 that is expected to debut towards the end of 2020...

The SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) pull requests to the Linux kernel normally don't get us excited, but they do when it comes with word of big performance enhancements. There are several SPI performance improvements this round but exciting us the most is the work done on the Broadcom SPI driver for Raspberry Pi hardware...

Moving towards their oneAPI beta release next quarter, the Intel developers are as busy as ever advancing their LLVM-based SYCL compiler and run-times for Windows and Linux...

CentOS is a free and open-source, community-driven Linux distribution based on the popular security-focused Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was designed to be consistent rolling-release distro joined with Red Hat but still independent from...

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future  The Register

All Systems Go Systemd inventor Lennart Poettering told the crowds at the All Systems Go Linux user-space event in Berlin he intends to reinvent home ...

In the future, all the information you need will be just one gesture away, and it will all appear in midair as a hologram that you can interact with even while you're driving your flying car. That's the future, though, and until that arrives, we're all stuck with information spread across a laptop, a phone, a tablet, and a smart refrigerator. Unfortunately, that means when we need information from a device, we generally have to look at that device.

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System administrators (sysadmins) waste thousands of hours each year on repetitive tasks. Fortunately, web apps, built using open source tools, can automate a significant portion of that pain away.

For example, it takes only about a day to build a web app using Python and JavaScript to reclaim some of that time. Here is the core structure that any web application must have:

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AMDGPU Linux 5.5 Changes Being Prepped With HDCP Support, LRU Bulk Moves Re-Enabled  Phoronix

WireGuard Will Port To Existing Linux Crypto API In Order To Make It In The Kernel  Phoronix

The second article in this series demonstrated how to implement the logic for determining whether it's daylight or nighttime in a home automation system (HAS) application that controls locking and unlocking a cat door. This third article explains how to write code to use that logic in an application that locks a door at night and unlocks it during daylight hours.

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IOTA {MIOTA} Foundation teams up with Linux; may facilitate mainstream interest  OBN

IOTA is ranked at #16 above Dash but underneath Huobi Token in the market. The price declined at a rate of 11.73% in the course of the past 24-hours. This led ...

IOTA Foundation and Linux come together for LF Edge  The Internet Of All Things

Two open-source foundations - IOTA Foundation working in the sphere of blockchain and the open-source Linux Foundation have come together for Edge ...

Purism Librem 5 privacy-focused Linux phone has started shipping  SlashGear

There is a lot of buzz going on around smartphone displays and cameras in the past few months but, for all the advancements in mobile technology, there is one.

Epic Games' Brandon Schaefer (and in fact former Canonical developer working on Ubuntu's Mir display server) has contributed a new SDL2 video driver back-end for offscreen rendering...

CentOS Linux 8 and CentOS Stream Announced  HPCwire

Red Hat and CentOS today announced the general availability of CentOS Linux 8 and the new CentOS Stream. The announcement was made via the CentOS ...

First Librem 5 Linux Phones Start Shipping to Customers Around the World  Softpedia News

The first batch ships from September 24th until October 22nd.

How to use the journalctl Linux command  TechRepublic

Learn about the Linux command which can help you troubleshoot why apps and services fail to start.

In squeezing to shipping in Q3, Purism announced today their first batch of Librem 5 Linux smartphones are beginning to ship. In the process, we see the first actual photos of the Librem 5...

Red Hat and CentOS Unveil CentOS Stream, a New Rolling Release Linux Distro  Softpedia News

CentOS Linux 8 Officially Released, It's Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8  Softpedia News

CentOS 8.0-1905 images are now available to download.