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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER Linux Performance  Phoronix

For those looking to spend less than $200 USD on a graphics card, the recently launched NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER offers great value starting at $159 USD and working well with the NVIDIA Linux driver for providing decent 1080p Linux gaming performance as well as OpenCL / CUDA support. Here are benchmarks of the GTX 1650 SUPER alongside a total of 18 lower-end/mid-range AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on Ubuntu Linux.

While missing the original release target of the end of November, The Qt Company is buttoning up Qt 5.14 for debut next week. Today, however, marks the release candidate availability for those wanting to test out this forthcoming Qt5 release prior to more of the development efforts shifting to Qt 6.0...

AMD's GPUOpen team has released their first official update to the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator project in nearly one year...

Looking to further capitalize upon the popularity of Ubuntu in the cloud, Canonical today announced Ubuntu Pro premium images for Amazon's EC2 cloud...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 Receive Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

A Linux distro can now go ‘undercover’ and pretend to be Windows 10  TechRadar India

Linux Software Market to Witness a Pronounce Growth During 2024 by Top Key players like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  VaporBlash

Mozilla Thunderbird 68.3.0 Released for Linux, Windows, and macOS  Softpedia News

Longtime open-source AMD graphics driver developer Marek Olšák has kicked off a discussion over the possibility in the not too distant future of either dropping non-Gallium3D drivers from Mesa (and moving them off to a maintenance branch or the like) or forking some of Mesa's existing code to allow it to be better optimized for Gallium3D use-cases. Due to raised concerns, other possibilities are also being expressed like simply moving ahead with optimizing the Mesa code-base for Gallium3D at a cost of potentially hitting dead code more often with the classic drivers...

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has finally landed SDMA copy support for Vega/GFX9 graphics hardware, which should principally benefit compute shaders and other cases...

With the PowerPC changes for the Linux 5.5 kernel comes the initial infrastructure work on preparing to be able to handle a Secure Boot implementation for POWER9 hardware...

Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9  Phoronix

Latest Kali Linux features an Undercover Windows 10 theme  Ghacks Technology News

Let's compare the two most popular and powerful programming languages in the world: Java and Python! Both languages have huge community support and libraries to perform almost any programming task, although selecting a programming language usually depends on the developer's use case. After you compare and contrast, please make sure to answer our poll to share your opinion on which is best.

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There are many ways to control the flow of an awk script, including loops, switch statements and the break, continue, and next commands.

Sample data

Create a sample data set called colours.txt and copy this content into it:

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A Linux distro can now go ‘undercover’ and pretend to be Windows 10  Techradar

When GNOME 3 was released, some GNOME users were not ready to give up GNOME 2. The Linux Mint project was so dissatisfied with GNOME 3 that it started its own desktop as an alternative, and thus the Cinnamon desktop was born.

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ASPM can be a big boost to help power-savings on Linux laptops and desktops as shown by a prominent kernel regression a number of years ago. However, a number of Linux drivers are forced to disable Active State Power Management (ASPM) due to quirky/buggy hardware where it ends up not being sane to enable that power-saving feature by default. But with the Linux 5.5 kernel is support for toggling ASPM link states via sysfs as an easy-to-perform manner for achieving better power-savings with friendly devices...

Linux 5.5 Provides Knob To Toggle ASPM Link States Individually - Better Power-Savings  Phoronix