Open-source News

This free Linux course has trained a million people in open-source tools  TechRepublic

It was just earlier this summer that the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) crossed 17 million firmware downloads while today the Linux hardware community is celebrating that already surpassing 20 million downloads!..

LVFS/Fwupd Serve More Than 20 Million Firmware Downloads For Upgrades On Linux  Phoronix

It's 2020 and NetBSD has changed its default X11 window manager after more than two decades with TWM...

Linux Systems are Hackers’ Next Targets  Security Boulevard

Version 8.4 of OpenSSH has been released and among its wide assortment of changes is a lot of continued work on FIDO/2FA key handling...

OpenSSH 8.4 Brings Better Support For FIDO/2FA Keys  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.2.155 is out this morning as a small weekly update over last week's spec revision that brought the Vulkan Portability Extension 1.0 for easing software-based Vulkan implementations running atop other graphics APIs...

Vulkan 1.2.155 Released With EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64  Phoronix

Linux winning battle against Windows  Fudzilla

Lenovo rolls out more Linux laptops  Fudzilla

Linux Software Market Forecast 2020–2025 | COVID -19 Impact Report With Top Key Players- Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  The Daily Chronicle

Touchégg 2.0.0 Released: A Linux Multi-Touch Gesture Recognizer App  Fossbytes

Drawing is an Open Source MS-Paint Type of App for Linux Desktop  It's FOSS

Broadcom engineers have prepared their Linux network driver infrastructure for supporting 200G link speeds...

Broadcom Has 200G Ethernet Link Speed Support Coming To Its Driver For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

I just stumbled onto a new (to me) feature of the GNOME desktop that enables you to create a document template. A template is generally an empty shell of a document with certain things configured and is often referred to as boilerplate. An example might be a letterhead for a law firm, with its corporate title and address at the top. Another might be a bank or insurance carrier letter that contains certain disclaimers in the footer at the bottom of the document.

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This is part 13 in an ongoing series about creating video games in Python 3 using the Pygame module. Previous articles are:

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MSM Adreno DRM Driver For Linux 5.10 Has DisplayPort, Per-Process Pagetables  Phoronix

There are common beliefs about user experiences—the best ones are user-centered, iterative, and intuitive. When user experience (UX) research is conducted, user stories about these experiences are collected—but the research methods chosen inform user experiences, too.

So, what makes for an engaging research experience, and how can methods evolve alongside products to better connect with users?

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