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C++ Creator Rebuts White House Warning
Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said. C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden administration report that calls on developers to use memory-safe languages and avoid using vulnerable ones such as C++…
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‘BigLinux’ distro makes Linux easy
Looking for a Linux distribution that makes good on the promise of being the perfect system for those who’ve never used Linux? If so, BigLinux might be for you. But advanced users with love it too. ZDNET’s key takeaways:BigLinux is free and available for installation on as many computers as you need.It’s big, beautiful, and…
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Raspberry Pi OS Now Powered By Linux 6.6
Raspberry Pi OS Is Now Powered by Linux 6.6 LTS, Improves Raspberry Pi 5 SupportThis release improves the dark theme, adds new settings for headless resolution to the Screen Configuration, and enables EEPROM updates from raspi-config. The Raspberry Pi Foundation released today a new build of their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS operating for the Raspberry…
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Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system
Good news, everyone! The world’s favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones. The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier. The official postmarketOS blog announced that systemd is coming to postmarketOS. There are solid technical reasons. The announcement explains: One…
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CERN’s Proton Mail for Linux
Proton Mail has released a brand new desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The app means subscribers to the privacy-focused mail service no longer need to use a web browser to read, send, and manage their mail. For privacy-conscious folks, Proton needs little introduction. Formed by a group of scientists and engineers who met…
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Ubicloud to build open source alt to AWS
Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019, wants to change the dynamics by offering a layer of core cloud computing services on top of affordable bare-metal servers from providers like Hetzner, OVH Cloud, Leaseweb…
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