Credit: Ian Noble; Modified by IDG Comm. Did you know that you can ask your Linux system to tell you what upgrades are available for the packages installed on it? You might be surprised by how many ...

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His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...