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Mozilla pushed today the final release of its Firefox 93 web browser to the main archives for all supported platforms and architectures ahead of the official launch on October 5th, 2021.

In few words, you can think of jQuery as a cross-browser and cross-platform Javascript library that can greatly simplify client-side scripting in HTML pages. On the other hand, Bootstrap can be described as a complete framework that integrates HTML, CSS, and Javascript tools to create mobile-friendly and responsive web pages.

"Browser monoculture" is often bemoaned as a threat to the web. According to Statscounter, which tracks browser use, over 70 per cent of the market is made up of people using Google Chrome or another browser based on the underlying Chromium project.

Computers are great at automating tasks. Doing something quickly over and over again the same way is where computers really shine. However, any system administrator can tell you that some tasks become more difficult when they are spread out over multiple machines. Installing the same software on multiple computers and keeping a fleet of machines up to date can be tedious.

FLB Music is billed as a ‘beautiful cross platform music player’. It’s written in TypeScript and uses Vue.js,

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install or upgrade the Linux kernel 5.14 from the unstable repository along with setting up APT pinning to avoid conflicting updating of existing Debian 11 Bullseye packages.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2021 issue.

A new release of FreeBSD-based helloSystem 0.6.0 is here with important updates and bug fixes. We round up the release in this post.

In the regular monthly updates, Linux Mint team announced that the next Linux Mint 20.3 release is planned for Christmas and will contain some interesting updates.

Looks like arm64 build is coming up with Pop OS 21.10 Impish Indri release.

The Astro Pi project sees experiments, written by school children running on real Raspberry Pis. This might not seem very exciting until you hear where those Raspberry Pis are located, the International Space Station, in orbit high above the Earth.

Are you also tired of locking up yourself inside your house away from any activity and people are known as ‘Quarantine period’? In these challenging times when people were unable to meet each other and were missing all these gatherings, Discord has played its magic and succeed in winning everyone’s hearts. This famous online communication app helped people stay connected with their fellows and friends through text messages, voice chats, and video chats.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Nvidia Graphic Drivers for the series 470.xx / 465.xx / 460.xx / 390.xx and 340.xx from the Nvidia Proprietary Repository, giving you the latest in software available.

Plasma 5.23 stable is due to be released in two weeks while until then KDE developers are scurrying to land more fixes in this next desktop update. This past week KDE Plasma 5.23 has seen many more fixes, especially as it concerns the Plasma Wayland session and in particular addressing a number of crash fixes for the KWin compositor.

CodeSee, a maker of tools that help developers to visualize and understand large codebases, has unveiled OSS Port, a community website that aims to connect potential contributors with open source projects, and ease the process of onboarding.

The open-source project of this week is Fig, which adds VSCode-style autocomplete to one’s existing terminal. The project pops up subcommands, options, and contextually relevant arguments and works with iTerm, the native MacOS Terminal app; Hyper; and the integrated terminal in VSCode.

There is no question that competition yields better products in a marketplace. In fact I can make you the argument that we have lost many of those fierce battles of the past that are part of historical lore in the radio business. You just don’t see stations going head to head in a market like they used to. It clearly exists today but consolidation in the marketplace has watered it down. But I think the radio industry can benefit from some of the traits of an open source society.

Google has committed $1 million in funding to the Secure Open Source (SOS) pilot program established by The Linux Foundation—and the company's investment might not stop there. "This program financially rewards developers for enhancing the security of critical open-source projects that we all depend on," Google says. "We are starting with a $1 million investment and plan to expand the scope of the program based on community feedback."

This week saw the annual check-in with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America, this year held in Seattle (as well as virtually). Torvalds took the stage Tuesday in the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Seattle for the event’s traditional half-hour of questions from Dirk Hohndel, an early Linux contributor (now also the chief open source officer and vice president at VMware) in an afternoon keynote session.

Halloween is coming, and what better way to celebrate the season than by using machine learning and a Raspberry Pi to accomplish something spooky! This year I’ve built a mannequin head that uses person detection and a simple servo motor to detect when a person is walking by and turn the head to follow them. I’m using a simple styrofoam mannequin head with some coloured in eyes from the dollar store, but you’re welcome to dress it up to fit your house’s theme or use a completely different kind of head or object. As long as you can use a servo to rotate it, the result is the same.