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It looks like a big new systemd release will be out in time for Christmas...

Global Linux Operating System Market 2017-2026 IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  The Chicago Sentinel

Building off the NVIDIA 440 stable Linux driver release from earlier this month, the NVIDIA 440.36 Linux driver is out today as a small update...

NVIDIA 440.36 Linux Driver Released With Official GTX 1650 SUPER Support  Phoronix

With the big PHP 7.4.0 release due out next week, yesterday we published our PHP 7.4.0 benchmarks using the near-final build for this annual update to PHP. Those benchmarks compared previous releases as far back as PHP 5.6. But out of curiosity after that article I went to do some benchmarks going back to PHP 5.3 through PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0-dev...

Google plans to take Android back to ‘mainline’ Linux kernel  Naked Security

Why You Should Be Using Linux  ChartAttack

Arm engineers have been working to speed-up the open-source Chromium web browser on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and ultimately to flow back into Google's Chrome releases. Their focus has been around Windows-on-Arm with the growing number of Windows Arm laptops coming to market, but the Chromium optimizations also benefit the browser on Linux too...

Released at the end of October to little fanfare was webOS Open Source Edition 2.0, the open-source Linux OS currently in development by LG for use on their Smart TVs and other digital products. With webOS Open Source Edition 2.0, they began setting their sights on automobiles and other potential use-cases. That was then extended by this week's release of webOS OSE 2.1...

webOS Open Source Edition 2.1 Released For Continuing The Palm/HP/LG Linux Distro  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2019 Size, Risk, Entry Barrier, Distribution Channel, Distributor 2025  The Chicago Sentinel

Industrial-grade Linux OS gets Over-the-Air updates  eeNews Europe

Oceans cover 71% of Earth’s surface and contain 97% of Earth’s water.

Land-based food production is in crisis, driven by climate change and population increases. We have to grow 70% more food by 2050 in order to accommodate two billion more people on our planet.

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The Bourne Again Shell (Bash) is a text interface to POSIX computers. A shell, Bash or otherwise, provides a way for you to talk directly to your computer without roundabout interfaces: you type the precise command you want your computer to execute. It's the most efficient and lightweight interface available, which is why it still endures after 40 years.

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Bitwarden is a fantastic tool for managing passwords. It has applications for every platform, a browser plugin, and a self-hosted version, and it offers some great password management tricks like folders and collections. One of my favorite features is that it will keep a history of your old passwords, which is a great feature for enterprise users.

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Universal Bandwidth Compression is now enabled for the open-source "TURNIP" Mesa Vulkan driver...

A unified kernel won't necessarily solve Android fragmentation  Android Authority

Linux Operating System Market 2019 Business Scenario – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Heraldresearch

An internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an identifier of a network interface that’s involved in an IPv6 computer network. If you don’t want to use Ipv6 addressing, you can opt to disable it...

Mesa 19.2.5 was just released earlier this week but now v19.2.6 has already been released due to the previous point release breaking IBM POWER builds...