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Linus Torvalds: So rc5 is noticeably bigger than rc4 was, and my hope last week that we were starting to calm down and shrink the releases seems to have been premature.

ostechnix: Find if a specific package is installed or not in Linux and Unix distributions.

Phoronix: The Unity 7 Low Graphics Mode reduces shadows, drops blur and fade effects, and reduces other animations to ease up the rendering workload

InfoWorld: The first public alpha of Fedora 25 rolls in Mozilla's Rust language as a standard-issue component

The pros and cons of each, and why you should consider Python for embedded programming.

For those of you who are wondering what's new in the Linux kernel 3.10.103 LTS, we would like to tell you that this update brings many improvements to the MIPS, PowerPC (PPC), x86, ARM, ARC, and s390 hardware architectures

techradar: Boost your graphics performance

Phoronix: The Linux kernel to now hasn't provided proper support for NVMe power-savings via APST, Autonomous Power State Transitions, but it's coming.

 softpedia: Talking about editors, Qt Creator's built-in text editor receives improvements to automatic inserting and skipping of characters, as well as of quotes and brackets.

Linus Torvalds: Everything looks normal, and it's been a bit quieter than rc3 too, so hopefully we're well into the "it's calming down" phase.

Oyvind Nydal Dahl has dedicated himself to teaching electronics to beginners, both kids and adults.

MultiTail is an open source ncurses utility that can be used to display multiple logfiles to standard output in a single window

ZDnet: Linus Torvalds describes Linux's secret origins.

Most of the changes included in the Linux kernel 3.2.82 LTS release are updated drivers

eWEEK: During the new report period, an average of 7.8 changes were accepted into the Linux kernel every hour, up from 7.71 in the last report.

 devproconnections: The time when developers and administrators can get by with only Microsoft in their bag of tricks is over.

Linus Torvalds: It all looks pretty sane, I'm not seeing anything hugely scary here.

 FOSSforce: Learn all about the PHP dependency manager, Composer.

eWEEK: The .NET-based command-line shell and scripting language makes its way to Linux and Mac OS X.

NetworkWorld: If you're using a version of Linux based on the 4.6 series of the kernel, the software's lead maintainer has a message for you: It's time to upgrade.

 HowToForge: In this tutorial, I will show you how to create your own docker image with a dockerfile.

Sysadmins who think the cloud is a buzzword and a bunch of hype should check out Ansible.

Learn how to break the cycle of doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

According to Trixie Devine, a teacher at Grafton High School and a contributor to the new curriculum, West Virginia had originally planned to use Project Spark from Microsoft, but when it was discontinued the state had to search around for an alternative.

Go 1.7 includes many additions, improvements, and fixes.

The perf command in Linux gives you access to various tools integrated into the Linux kernel.

LinuxJournal: Someone accidentally commits private AWS keys to an open-source project and ends up handing candy to a bitcoin miner...

Phoronix: There are several changes to KWin's OpenGL compositor support with the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.8 release.

Linus Torvalds: We've had a week since the merge window closed, and rc2 is out. Go test it.

We should see Linux kernel 4.9 LTS RC1 on October 16.

Find an installed package version in Arch Linux, Debian, RHEL and their derivatives.

The Linux 4.4 kernel series is the most advanced long-term supported series currently

Jenkins is free and open source continuous integration tool (CI/CD)

The main reason for the introduction of the React Native framework in Ubuntu Linux is to continue its convergence vision

Why settle for boring numbers and static graphs to describe your open source project when you can dynamically display the movements and activity within your project?

Phoronix: Version 2.1 of the Godot Engine, a cross-platform 2D/3D game engine that was opened up back in 2014, is now available.

Push, Pull, Fork and Merge, just like Linus

When I started using the vi text editor, I hated it.

Linus Torvalds: It's been two weeks, and the merge window for 4.8 is thus closed.