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Linaro released AOSP TV for the HiKey, enabling development for Android TV using 96Boards SBCs without requiring Google Services and verification.

HowToForge:  Vim offers a plethora of in-built features;

Making high-end software like OpenToonz accessible to professionals and aspiring animators is exciting, but making that same software available on...

Linuxconfig: Hosting Django web applications is fairly simple, though it can get more complex than a standard PHP application.

InfoWorld: Latest version of Firefox will require Rust to compile successfully, restricting the number of platforms that the browser can be ported to

Marek, the Mesa developer from AMD posted a message to the public Mesa-dev mailing list asking to merge the threaded GL dispatch code and get it cleaned up to help with the high CPU overhead of Mesa.

webupd8: Apt Update Indicator is a GNOME Shell extension that keeps you informed about available updates in Ubuntu GNOME / Debian.

ostechnix: This tutorial describes how to clear a specific command from BASH history.

EnterpriseAppsToday: A basic promise of open-source code is that even if a company goes out of business, the source code can live on.

MakeTechEasier: Unknown to many, there are plenty of customization options for the terminal in Linux.

Installing latest Windows PowerShell Core 6.0 is now much easier in Linux.

Linus Torvalds: Hey, look at that - it's all been very quiet, and unless anything bad happens, we're all back to the regular schedule with this being the last rc.

Wine 2.1 comes about 10 days after the release of Wine 2.0 to implement additional Shader Model 5 instructions

Linux 4.4 is currently the most popular LTS (Long Term Support) kernel branch, used by popular GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

While still not marked as "longterm" on the kernel.org website, the Linux 4.9 kernel series recently become LTS (Long Term Support), which means that it will be supported with security patches for a couple of years.

HowToForge: While plugins are no doubt one of Vim's biggest strengths, there are several other functionalities that make it one of the most powerful and feature-rich text editors/IDEs available to Linux users today.

DZone: The newest version of Docker Compose comes with enhanced multi-host support. With the addition, you can have stateful services running in containers.

softpedia: So we can't help but notice that multiple such system-wide change proposals for the upcoming Fedora 26 operating system appeared on the Fedora Project mailing list.

This tutorial shows you how to compare directories visually on Linux by using the feature-rich comparison tool Meld.

LinuxInsider: Wine, an open source project, implements the Windows API on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family.

Linus Torvalds: So this week seemed very calm, and rc6 looked like it was going to be a nice tiny release.

This brief article describes how to limit cpu usage of a process in Unix-like distributions using cpulimit utility.

All these Alpha 2 flavors are powered by Linux kernel 4.9.5 (4.9.0-15.16), but the changes in each one are kept to a minimum at this time.

How do I open files in read-only mode in vim text editor on Linux or Unix-like system?

 Softpedia: Just like the Linux 4.9.6 kernel, Linux kernel 4.4.45 LTS comes approximately one week after the release of the previous maintenance update of the series, namely Linux 4.4.44 LTS.

Phoronix: GNOME developer Jonas Ådahl has begun landing his work on a new monitor configuration system in Mutter for the GNOME 3.24 desktop release.

 Learn about the concept of aliases as well how you can use them to make your command line navigation easier and smoother.

The annual event 24 Pull Requests drives quality contributions to projects, discourages gaming the system

 Nixcraft: MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL server.

Brotli is a new open source compression algorithm designed to enable an Internet that's faster for users.

LinuxTechi: One of the important task of a Linux system administrator is to update packages on the server.

softpedia: Qt 5.8 is everything you love about Qt, but faster, more powerful, and lighter.

Phoronix: It's been a while since the last update to Unreal Engine 4,

This brief guide explains how to save the output of any Linux command to an image or a file.

 LinuxGizmos: Google will bring its AI and machine learning technology to the Raspberry Pi this year

opensource.com: Get a brief introduction to writing web applications in R with Shiny.

Linus Torvalds: Things seem to be calming down a bit, and everything looks nominal.

 ossblog: The terminal emulator is a venerable but essential tool for computer users.

nixcraft: What is the best way to determine if a variable in bash is empty?

A look at the fundamentals of building and booting a kernel in QEMU using debootstrap, so you have the needed infrastructure to test your kernel changes in QEMU.