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Acer Chromebook Spin 713 review: You can't get a better Chromebook than this for $629  About Chromebooks

Newest RoboLinux 11 Update Goes Far Beyond Typical Linux  LinuxInsider.com

Newest RoboLinux 11 Update Goes Far Beyond Typical Linux  TechNewsWorld

Pitivi 2020.09 is now available (well, actually, was tagged ten days ago but only announced today) as the first release for this GNOME video editor solution since Pitivi 0.999 back in August 2018...

Trends Of Linux Software Market Reviewed For 2020 With Industry Outlook To 2027  PRnews Leader

There Are Many Changes To Look Forward To With The Linux 5.10 Kernel  Phoronix

How To Install and Code Python on Android With Pydroid 3  MakeUseOf

The Linux 5.9 kernel is expected for release this evening which will in turn kick off the Linux 5.10 merge window for the next two weeks. As we've already been closely monitoring the various "-next" development trees in recent weeks of material building up for this next cycle, here is a look at a portion of what's to come for this late 2020 kernel...

While the Linux 5.9 kernel isn't even being released until later today, the ARM64 architectural changes have already been mailed in ahead of the opening of the Linux 5.10 merge window...

Arm Memory Tagging Extension Ready For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

Linux Jargon Buster: What is Display Manager in Linux?  It's FOSS

Have you ever considered your relationship with your manager? It's often the catalyst that defines both your work experience and job satisfaction, a relationship you want to take by the reins and lead, instead of sitting back and allowing its negative aspects to fester. The ultimate employee/manager relationship you should strive for is more of a partnership, one in which you and your manager work together to accomplish your mutual goals.

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What If They Changed Home windows With Microsoft Linux?  Editorials 360

Intel engineers continue working on "Protection Keys for Supervisor" support for the Linux kernel as a feature coming to a future generation of processors (presumably Sapphire Rapids). The initial users of this PKS support will be helping to protect persistent memory as well as adding safeguards to Trusted Keys within the Linux kernel...

Intel Continues Prepping PKS For The Linux Kernel (Protection Keys for Supervisor)  Phoronix

Seeing new AMDGPU targets added to mainline LLVM for aging Radeon GFX7/GFX8 graphics hardware wasn't what I expected to see this weekend...

Dualboot 10 and Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Just over one week ago Intel released the Media Driver 2020.3 with Gen12/Xe AV1 decode and other improvements for their quarterly feature release of this open-source video acceleration driver. They have also now released their adjoining Media SDK 20.3 open-source update...

Meet open source community SONiC, the 'Linux of networking'  Reseller News

KDE developers have been busy not only putting the finishing touches on the soon to be released Plasma 5.20 but also early feature work continues on what will be Plasma 5.21...