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systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc

Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option...

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Intel Nova Lake Power Management Bits Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.19

Intel engineers continue working on the Nova Lake next-gen processor enablement for the Linux kernel. In addition to the Intel Xe3P graphics and other early Nova Lake enablement work already queued in "-next" Git branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window, the initial power management code is also ready for this next kernel cycle...

LWN.net

Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc6

Linus has released 6.18-rc6 for testing. "So we have a slightly larger rc6 than usual, but I think it's just the random noise and a result of pull request timings rather than due to any issues with the release. But I guess we have a couple of weeks remaining to find out."

Linux.org

Python Series Part 18: Working with Buttons in Tkinter

Everyone who has used a computer or even a phone or tablet know what a button is in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A button is a clickable object that causes something to happen or start processing. In this article, we can cover buttons on Tkinter. Keep in mind that if you have read the article on Labels, then most of this you should know since most options are the same for almost all widgets. Text The string used for the β€˜text’ option is displayed on the button. Let’s look at a... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-18-working-with-buttons-in-tkinter.57146/