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How to install Linux on Windows?  Techstory

ASUS has been evaluating the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for distributing firmware updates to their Linux customers for flashing in turn via Fwupd. Their first motherboard firmware update has now been volleyed onto this open-source platform for easing firmware updates on Linux...

Pick up this coin sized Linux computer with screen for 13% off  PCWorld

This new malware wants to add your Linux servers and IoT devices to its botnet  ZDNet

Compact box computer and signage system feature RK3399  LinuxGizmos.com

Quickly Look for Word Meaning With Quick Lookup in Linux  It's FOSS

Announced by Arm back in September was the Neoverse V1 "Zeus" platform with 50%+ performance uplift over the Neoverse N1. Neoverse V1 also supports Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) and other features in catering the platform for machine learning, cloud, HPC, and similar use-cases...

Among the many open-source graphics driver improvements being worked on recently by Red Hat's David Airlie from Lavapipe to OpenCL 3.0 Clover work, another recent effort has been around TTM "multihop" as an improvement for this memory management infrastructure used by the likes of the AMDGPU kernel driver...

TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU Buffer Management  Phoronix

Cyber Security Today – Linux ransomware strain found, a second data breach at Luxottica, Canadian health unit forgets hard drives, and more  IT World Canada

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Industry Share, Size, Growth 2026 By Top Companies- Google Twitter Facebook Amazon IBM Oracle Novell RedHat DELL Samsung Microsoft Market  The Daily Philadelphian

Ubuntu maker Canonical Holdings Limited recently submitted their UK financial report for their fiscal year ending 31 December 2019. During the pre-COVID times they generated around 22% more revenue than 2018 but still operated at a loss albeit more narrowly than in prior years...

Vulkan 1.2.160 is out this morning as the newest revision to the Vulkan graphics/compute API...

Allwinner Is Bringing RISC-V to Cheap Linux Single Board Computers  MakeUseOf

The operators of the RansomEXX ransomware provide the Linux version of their malware  re:Jerusalem

Minishift is a tool that helps you run OKD (Red Hat's open source OpenShift container platform) locally by launching a single-node OKD cluster inside a virtual machine. It is powered by Kubernetes, which is one of my favorite things to talk about.

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If you like to tinker with technology, you may be familiar with programmable microcontroller boards, such as AdaFruit's Circuit Playground Express and the BBC Micro:bit. Now there's a new programming option for you to try: MicroBlocks. It's a simple Scratch-like programming interface that works well with several microcontrollers, including those two.

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For the longest time, it seemed the only thing any sysadmin cared about was automation. Recently, though, the mantra seems to have changed from automation to orchestration, leading many puzzled admins to wonder: "What's the difference?"

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Linux CLI Email Client Mutt 2.0.0 Released With Domain-literal Support  Fossbytes

Joplin is an open-source Note-taking and To-Do application, which comes in two flavors: Desktop application and Terminal application. In this article, we will only take a look at the Desktop version. Joplin is available

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