Category: computers
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Slackware Linux 15.0 Released
Slackware 15.0 is out today, this is the first new version of one of the oldest Linux operating system distributions since Slackware 14.2 was released in July of 2016. The first version of Slackware was released 28 years ago in 1993. Patrick J. Volkerding announced Slackware 15.0 with this message: Well folks, in spite of the…
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Raspberry Pi OS Gets 64-bit Support
The Raspberry Pi lineup of single-board computers has had a few improvements lately with a new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 that ended up being similar in performance to the Raspberry Pi 3. Finally, the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian), is getting official 64-bit support despite the hardware being capable of 64-bit instructions since…
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“The entire crypto fantasy…” according to Jon von Tetzchner
The Co-Founder and CEO of the company behind the Vivaldi browser, Jon von Tetzchner, in a post on the Vivaldi blog: The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else…
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Snell on the 2021 MacBook Pro’s Ports
Jason Snell has words about the new 2021 MacBook Pro lineup, highly recommended if you’d like to reminisce about Apple’s walk back of most of their laptop decisions: If Mac laptops come in eras, one just ended. It started in 2016 with the release of MacBook Pro models featuring butterfly keyboards, the Touch Bar, and…