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Linux Mint 20 and Kali Linux 2020.4 • Two Terrific Distros on a Double-Sided DVD!

Patreon Project Looks to Bring Linux to Apple Silicon

A New Chrome OS-Like Ubuntu Remix Is Now Available

System76 Refreshes the Galago Pro Laptop

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Linux Kernel 5.10 is Almost Ready for Release

Canonical Launches Curated Container Images

AWS Container Image Library in the Works

Zack’s Kernel News • Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Abracadabra • Intel’s iNet wireless daemon offers virtually all of the features found in the obsolete WPA Supplicant, and it is smaller by a factor of 10.

Trend Watcher • Bruce takes a look at DistroWatch data for a glimpse into the current state of Linux distributions.

Double Flower • Following in the footsteps of Norton Commander and its clones, the Sunflower twin-panel file manager takes a giant leap forward with a switch to Python 3 and GTK3.

Branch Management • Git makes version control as simple as possible. To manage your Git branches successfully, you need to learn the ins and outs of git branch and git merge.

Hidden Data • ExifTool lets you modify and analyze metadata in multimedia files from the command line, but its comprehensive feature set results in a lengthy learning curve. Luckily, jExiftoolGUI offers an intuitive interface that makes using ExifTool easier, even for less experienced users.

History Lesson • For admins like Charly, who try to avoid typing at all costs, the shell offers an excellent opportunity to avoid wear on your fingertips in the form of built-in history.

Full Potential • Today’s graphics cards not only specialize in quickly drawing graphics on the screen, but they can also speed up video playback, reducing the CPU’s load. While Firefox supports this optimization, you must manually enable hardware acceleration to quickly decode video on the browser.

Making History • In the history log, the Bash shell records all commands typed by the user. Mike Schilli extracts this data with Go for a statistical analysis of his typing behavior.

Slimming Down • Inkscape creates W3C-compliant SVG files, but they are usually larger than they need to be for the web. We’ll show you how to optimize SVG files for faster load times.

Tiny Extensions • Tiny Core Linux does not boast a big repository. Sooner or later, you’ll need to create your own extensions to get the most out of Tiny Core. This article shows you how.

What Is Squashfs?

The Lost Dynamic Linker

IDEs for All

MakerSpace Visual Studio Code for programming a Raspberry Pi Visual Cues • Professional and casual Python developers save time and keystrokes in a Visual Studio Code development environment for remote coding of a Raspberry Pi.

Seven-Segment Displays

MakerSpace An ASCII puzzle for an escape room challenge Jail Break • A digital puzzle presents a challenge for young people in an escape room.

INTRODUCTION

MADDOG’S DOGHOUSE • A recent rocket launch has maddog thinking about high performance computing and accurate weather forecasts.

Newly Wallpapered • Don’t let your desktop look boring. With the Variety wallpaper manager, you can easily set up a rotating selection of background images and other customized options.

Fast and Functional • Linux users have many options for monitoring system resources, but bpytop, a new Python port of bashtop, more than stands out from the...