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The Qt Company announced today the release and general availability of Qt Creator 5.0, a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

An impedance mismatch in software architecture happens when there's a set of conceptual and technical difficulties between two components. It's actually a term borrowed from electrical engineering, where the impedance of electrical input and output must match for the circuit to work.

Academics have put GitHub's Copilot to the test on the security front, and said they found that roughly 40 per cent of the time, code generated by the programming assistant is, at best, buggy, and at worst, potentially vulnerable to attack.

After a month of reverse-engineering the Arm Mali G78, Collabora has released documentation on the Valhall instruction set, as well as a Valhall assembler and disassembler to be used as a reverse-engineering aid.

Brackets code editor is an open-source program that assists web developers and designers in developing websites. This tutorial shows you how to install Brackets Editor on Ubuntu 20.04.

It’s possible to deep dive into the virtual reality gaming world on your Linux system. Want to explore VR games on Linux? This article takes you through the top 3 VR games available on Linux. Ready to get amazed? Let’s start.

We review the elementary OS 6 Odin and give you some glimpse on how it went for our test drive.

Sounds sus to us – most talked about maybe. Python is the "de facto platform for new technologies," according to research by the IEEE in its Spectrum publication.…

Our lovely operating system Linux is turning 30 today so we will like to wish a very happy birthday to the Linux.

A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.

Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google Inc. Google Chrome team proudly announced the release of Google Chrome 92 on 16 August 2021.

Rocky Linux 8 users currently, by default, are only limited to the Firefox Internet Browser. However, many alternatives can be installed. Microsoft Edge is one alternative that has been in development for over a year and has been getting quite a lot of good reviews amongst many Linux distribution communities and maybe an alternative compared to just switching to Google Chrome.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Microsoft Edge on Rocky Linux 8.

A run-through the top user-facing changes coming in GNOME 41, which is now in beta ahead of a stable release in September. There are new features, key improvements, and even a brand new app.

GitHub is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git and offers its basic services without charge. But it is not open source which puts some organisations in a difficult position to migrate where they rely on the non-Git elements of GitHub’s service offerings. Vendor lock-in is a legitimate concern.

From my past experience when I was new, Linux commands and terminals really scared me, I was worried about the commands, as to what extent I have to remember and memorize commands to get myself fully functional with Linux.

Clonezilla enables you to clone disks and partitions, storing resulting images on a backup storage device of your choice. Clonezilla Live 2.7.3 has been released based on Debian Sid. The new version adds support for mounting BitLocker device as image repository.

Using Bash scripts can ensure consistent configuration of SSH and other services.

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel Interview On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, sent a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup soliciting feature suggestions for a free Unix-like operating system he was developing as a hobby.…

Modernizing and transforming legacy applications is a challenging activity that involves several tasks. One of the key tasks is validating that the modernized application preserves the functionality of the legacy application. Unfortunately, this can be tedious and hard to perform. Legacy applications often do not have automated test cases, or, if available, test coverage might be inadequate, both in general and specifically for covering modernization-related changes. A poorly maintained test suite might also contain many obsolete tests (accumulated over time as the application evolved). read more

“I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).