poke @ Savannah: Practical GNU poke @ DevConf.CZ

We will be imparting a workshop on “practical poke” at the DevConf.CZ next Saturday 17 June in the beautiful czechish

city of Brno. During the workshop we will have plenty of time to go through the main aspects of the program, learning and having fu…

KDE Plasma 6 to Ship With Floating Panel, Double-Click for Opening Files

KDE Plasma 6 is a massive update to the Plasma desktop environment that will bring numerous new features and improvements.
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Python Gzip Decompress Function

The terms encode and decode are used to compress or decompress or convert the input to some other not understandable format. These techniques are usually used for security purposes. In this article, we will discuss the use and examples of gzip.decompress(s), the decompressing function of the gzip library in Python.

Matplotlib Plot Multiple Lines

“Matplotlib” provides functions such as “plt.plot()” to plot multiple lines on same plot. These lines can also be plotted via different line styles and colors.

Python Find First Occurrence in String

The “find()” method, “index()” method, and “rfind()” and “rindex()” functions are used to find the first occurrence in a string in Python.

Python Removes Newline From a String

To remove newline from a string in Python, “strip()” method, “replace()” method, “List Comprehension” with “join()” method, or “re.sub()” function can be used.

SciPy Cosine Similarity

“Cosine similarity” is a useful metric for comparing the similarity of two vectors in high-dimensional space and can be calculated via Python’s “scipy” library.

Python Networking

“Python Networking” allows developers to create server and client applications, send and receive data over network, and manage network protocols effortlessly.

Python Urlparse()

In Python, the “urlparse()” function is used to parse URLs and extract specific parts of the URL such as the scheme, network location, path, etc.

grep @ Savannah: grep-3.11 released [stable]

This is to announce grep-3.11, a stable release.

This release makes PCRE patterns like [\d] work again, at the expense of
reverting to the behavior of grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w and \b go
back to using ASCII rather than Unicode interpreta…

GNOME Considers Bringing Back Terminal App to Replace New Console

GNOME’s new console app may go away so soon. Learn why GNOME is thinking of potentially bringing back the Terminal app.
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Alma Linux 9.2 Released With Enhanced Security and Performance

Read the release highlights of AlmaLinux 9.2, which brings security updates, enhanced application streams, streamlined system management, and more.
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Alma Linux 9.2 Released With Enhanced Security and Performance

Read the release highlights of AlmaLinux 9.2, which brings security updates, enhanced application streams, streamlined system management, and more.
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List – a Linux App that Doesn’t Overcomplicate Your To-Dos

To-do apps for Linux? Of those there are plenty – so many you pretty much need to use one to keep up! List is a (relatively) new to-do app for…

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Mesa 23.1 Arrives With Many RADV Improvements, More

Mesa 23.1 comes with support for several new Vulkan extensions for the Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) for AMD Radeon GPUs. Learn more here.
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Mixxx 2.3.5 Improves Support for Pioneer DDJ-400, Hercules P32

Mixxx 2.3.5 makes Pioneer DDJ-400 more intuitive, makes pregain optional on Hercules P32 DJ, and fixes sound output via WDM-KS on Windows. Learn more here.
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Registration Now Open for GNOME GUADEC 2023

GUADEC 2023 is where people share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of GNOME. Learn more here.
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Dealing with the dreaded ‘Broken Pipe’ error in Linux

In Linux, the ‘Broken Pipe’ error is a common issue that users may encounter when dealing with inter-process communication or network connectivity. This error typically occurs when one process tries to send data to another, but the receiving process is…

RHEL 9.2 Adds 64K Page Sizes for ARM, New System Roles

RHEL 9.2 introduces support for 64k page sizes for Arm architecture, expanded capabilities of system roles, and enhancements to Podman.
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Alpine Linux 3.18 Tightens Kernel Security, Updates Package Base

Alpine Linux 3.18 brings an updated software stack for developers and desktop users. Upgrade now to experience the latest features!
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