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Google has clarified details of the interface between its popular distributed SQL database-management-cum-storage-service Spanner and the open-source RDBMS PostgreSQL. According to a blog published this week, Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface uses "the familiarity and portability of PostgreSQL" to make developers’ lives easier. Read More »

Gradle is a general-purpose build tool with a focus on Java projects. This article describes how to install Gradle on Debian. Read More »

Here’s how you can upgrade from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 21.10 “Impish Indri”. Read More »

Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one’s designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages. Citrix has created a web browser and lost its CEO. According to a regulatory filing, in early October, the company’s board appointed Robert M. Calderoni as interim CEO, after David Henshall stepped down from the role. The change was sudden and ... Read More »

The new KDE Plasma 5.23 release offers users a more beautiful Plasma desktop and immersive experience for its 25th Anniversary. This release is mainly focused on small but very useful features and incremental improvements. Read More »