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Looking for a CentOS Replacement? Start Here  ITPro Today

Rugged transport computer features LTE, WiFi, GPS, and optional LoRa  LinuxGizmos.com

The Linux Foundation Launches Research Division to Explore Open Source Ecosystems and Impact  insideHPC

Why port Linux to Apple Silicon?  TechRepublic

While openSUSE/SUSE is known for their friendliness towards the KDE desktop, this week's openSUSE Tumbleweed updates have made GNOME 40 available on this rolling-release distribution...

This upcoming Linux distro will make your system look like Windows 10X  Windows Central

Debian 11 continues inching closer towards release and it looks like the developers maintaining the "Devuan" fork won't be far behind with their re-base of the distribution focused on init system freedom...

Recently, the Linux Foundation Events team sent out a survey to past attendees of all events from 2018 through 2021 to get their feedback on how they feel about virtual events and gauge their thoughts on returning to in-person events. We sent the survey to 69,000 people and received 972 responses. 

The enclosed PDF document summarizes the results of that survey. Click on the embedded image to see the page advance controls.

LF-Events-surveyApril2021

Ultimately the good news here is that a healthy number of people feel comfortable traveling this year for events, especially domestically in the US. The results also show that about 1/4 of respondents like virtual events, and the vast majority of people who told us that they had attended in-person events before — another reason to keep a hybrid format moving forward.

The post What we learned from our survey about returning to in-person events appeared first on Linux Foundation.

Intel's engineers working on their open-source Linux-based Compute Runtime stack just released their latest version...

Intel Compute Runtime 21.15.19533 Released With Initial Level Zero 1.1 Support  Phoronix

Not to be confused with Assembly programming, the GNU Assembly is the new platform for a number of GNU toolchain projects like GCC, GNU C Library, GnuCOBOL, and other packages as a neutral home...

With Mesa 21.1 now branched for this collection of primarily OpenGL/Vulkan open-source drivers for Linux, feature development is on for Mesa 21.2 that will debut in Q3. One of the first major changes to land for Mesa 21.2 is the beginning of the graphics compiler support for Intel's forthcoming Xe-HP high performance graphics processor...

For GTC21 week NVIDIA has released version 11.3 of their CUDA toolkit...

How to install Vocal modern podcast client on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

reTerminal Raspberry Pi CM4 powered, touchscreen modular Linux system $195  Geeky Gadgets

Linux Operating System Market Outlook 2021: Big Things are Happenings | Google, IBM, Oracle, Ubuntu Linux  Industry Today

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Jenkins is a leading self-contained open-source automation server that is used to automate repetitive technical assignments involved in building, testing, and delivering or deploying software. Jenkins is Java-based and can be installed through Ubuntu

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Like many people, I've been exploring lots of new TV shows during the pandemic. I recently discovered a British game show called Countdown, where contestants play two types of games: a words game, where they try to make the longest word out of a jumble of letters, and a numbers game, where they calculate a target number from a random selection of numbers. Because I enjoy mathematics, I've found myself drawn to the numbers game.

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Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support  Phoronix

Back in early 2018 were patches proposed for selectable platform support when building Intel's kernel graphics driver so users/distributions if desired could disable extremely old hardware support and/or cater kernel builds for specific Intel graphics generations. Three years later those patches have been re-proposed...