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How to enable X11 forwarding from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Amazon Linux, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu server to support GUI-based installations from Amazon EC2  idk.dev

Google's Confidential VMs may change the public cloud market  ZDNet

SUSE Buys Rancher Labs to Up Its Kubernetes Game  ITPro Today

JEDEC today published their long-awaited JESD79-5 DDR5 SDRAM standard...

AMD Launches The Ryzen Threadripper PRO For Workstations  Phoronix

Building off last year's successful Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series and the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X that launched back in February, today AMD is announcing the Zen 2 based Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors targeted for workstation usage.

Star Lite Mk III Linux laptop up for pre-order for $426 and up  Liliputing

Linux Operating System Market Share, Size 2020 Global Industry Analysis, Key Growth Drivers Trends, Segments, Emerging Technologies, Opportunity and Forecast 2020 to 2026 | Market Reports World  Cole of Duty

The open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver stack reached a new milestone today with the user-space code in Mesa 20.2 finally flipping on the Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support...

The storage capabilities for ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project has long been in poor shape relative to the other subsystems, but ReactOS Deutschland has hired a developer to work full-time on making improvements in storage and related areas...

For those thinking of picking up one of the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT series processors and weighing whether it's worthwhile on your budget picking up DDR4-3600 memory or other higher frequency DDR4 modules, here are some fresh benchmark results with the Ryzen 9 3900XT looking at 100 different tests on Linux and showing how the performance changes from DDR4-2133 through DDR4-3800...

The patches talked about last month for a new "energy efficiency" tunable for the Intel P-State driver for Kabylake / Coffeelake CPUs is set to go into Linux 5.9 for those wanting to increase the energy efficiency of these CPUs on Linux albeit with reduced performance...

Linux 5.9 To Allow For Toggling Energy Efficiency Mode On Kaby Lake CPUs  Phoronix

Linux, Android And Autonomous Vehicles: Who Says Elephants Cannot Dance ?  Forbes

Prep for a Career in Systems Admin With This $30 Linux Boot Camp  PCMag.com

A new feature that's been in development for a while with the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) looks set to land with the forthcoming Linux 5.9 cycle...

F2FS Preparing To Introduce New "Secure Erase" Functionality  Phoronix

Programming languages: Now Rust project looks for a way into the Linux kernel  ZDNet

In addition to Linux 5.9 poised to bring ARMv8 Memory Tagging Extension support (MTE), another ARM architectural feature now queued up for introduction in this next kernel cycle is Translation Table Level support...

I am a big fan of command-line applications, and I spend a lot of time working in a terminal. Terminal-based applications are, in many cases, faster, more flexible, and more intuitive than their graphical user interface (GUI) counterparts.

Having a flexible and powerful terminal with many command-line tools makes me more productive. This is one of the main reasons I moved to Linux several years ago and never looked back.

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