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MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 In-Depth Analysis of Indust  News.MarketSizeForecasters.com

Last month the Microsoft-backed Direct3D 12 Gallium3D driver was merged into Mesa 21.0. This is the driver for allowing graphics/compute APIs like OpenGL and OpenCL to run on top of Direct3D with Windows 10. That work to the Gallium D3D12 code has been continuing with the start of the cross-platform code now being merged...

I'm a habitual Emacs user. I didn't choose Emacs as much as it chose me. Back when I was first learning about Unix, I stumbled upon a little-known feature in a strange application called Emacs, which was apparently hidden away on my computer. Legend had it (and was proven true) that if you typed emacs into a terminal, pressed Alt+X, and typed tetris, you could play a falling-blocks game.

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In the year since the Raspberry Pi 4 was released, I've seen many tutorials (like this and this) and articles on how well the 4GB model works with container platforms such as Kubernetes (K8s), Lightweight Kubernetes (K3s), and Docker Swarm. As I was doing research, I read that Arm processors are "first-class citizens" in OpenStack.

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Linux Foundation to offer new entry-level IT certification  TechRadar

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted open source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs for collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in real time.

The following are the five most important ways ONLYOFFICE Docs helps organize my collaborative work.

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BlackArch Linux 2020.12.01 Released With 100+ New Hacking Tools  Fossbytes

BlackArch Linux Is Now Powered by Linux 5.9, Latest ISO Adds over 100 New Hacking Tools  LXer

Linux-Based PinePhone CE With KDE Plasma Mobile Available For Pre-Order  Fossbytes

Following Tuesday's disclosure of more X.Org Server security bugs, X.Org Server 1.20.10 was released that provides those input fixes plus a number of other patches that have been back-ported and accumulated in the 1.20 series...

Red Hat is excited to announce that we have joined MLCommons, an open engineering consortium that curates the MLPerf benchmarking suite, as a founding member. MLCommons will be focusing on three important pillars to support the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) community: benchmarks, data sets, and best practices.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a hugely popular enterprise-level operating system that supports a diverse range of open-source technologies such as Ansible automation, Hybrid Cloud, virtualization, and containerization. In this guide, we highlight some

The post The Best RedHat-based Linux Distributions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features  Ars Technica

OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features  Ars Technica

NVIDIA is working on allowing their proprietary driver to support passing buffers as DMA-BUF. In turn this should allow for better supporting their proprietary driver on Wayland compared to the EGLStreams mess...

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Dynamics, Production, Supply and Demand Forecast covered in the Latest Research Available at TMR  Exchange 99

How to Avoid Locking Yourself Out of Linux  Medium

Linux Foundation's entry-level IT administrator certification is open for enrollment  ZDNet

Xe HP is Intel's discrete GPU aiming to compete against the latest-generation AMD and NVIDIA compute accelerators. Xe HP isn't scheduled to reach general availability until well into 2021 while now as they begin ramping up their sampling of Xe HP to potential customers, the Linux open-source driver support is preparing to roll-out...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver Support For Xe HP As "Gen12.5"  Phoronix