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9 insights from pivoting to remote work in 2020

opensource.com - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:00

2020 was the year remote work became the norm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people and companies shifted to "temporary" remote work, though many have now extended it indefinitely. As remote work will be the norm for the foreseeable future, here’s a review of some of the many articles published on Opensource.com regarding remote work practices, tools, and activities to manage this new normal.


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Jot down your ideas in a digital notebook

opensource.com - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 16:00

I love a good notebook. I usually get one or two blank notebooks from technical conferences each year, and I spend the journey home deciding what I’ll fill the empty pages with. Sometimes, it’s notes about some new open source technology; other times, it’s ideas for new games, or a collection of dungeons for my D&D groups, or ideas for a fictional world or story. The ideas tend to flow freely when I have a blank notebook in front of me, because it’s empty, and nature abhors a vacuum.


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DragonFlyBSD Adds HAMMER2 Multi-Volumes Support

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 13:00
The HAMMER2 file-system that has been used by default on DragonFlyBSD for some time has lacked multi-volumes support compared to its former HAMMER1 file-system. But as of this weekend in the latest Git development code, HAMMER2 now has initial support for multiple volumes...

Celebrate The Christmas Season With Some Wine: Wine 6.0-RC4 Released

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 03:20
While being released one day late due to Christmas, Wine 6.0-RC4 is out. This is the latest weekly test candidate of the forthcoming Wine 6.0 as the annual stable release due out in January for this leading software to run Windows programs/games on Linux, macOS, and the BSDs...

Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 01:53
Linux 5.10.3 is out today as a post-Christmas stable release update...

KDE Celebrated Christmas With KIO-FUSE Stable Release, NeoChat Matrix Chat App

Phoronix - Sun, 12/27/2020 - 01:12
Even with Christmas week there has been a lot of improvements still happening in the KDE world...

Paragon Publishes Latest NTFS File-System Patches For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 12/26/2020 - 22:41
One of the pleasant kernel surprises in 2020 was Paragon Software looking to upstream their previously commercial NTFS driver. This driver offers read-write support and more advanced capabilities than the current read-focused NTFS driver presently in the mainline kernel and better off than the other FUSE-based driver. This driver hasn't been mainlined yet but Paragon published new patches on Christmas...

LibreOffice Drops Its Experimental, Buggy VLC Integration

Phoronix - Sat, 12/26/2020 - 19:34
LibreOffice has various "AVMedia" back-ends for supporting the playback of audio and video within the open-source office suite with GStreamer and other platform-specific options. LibreOffice also supported a VLC back-end for audio/video playback but after years of that code being experimental and not maintained, it's now been eliminated...

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