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GhostBSD 20.11.28 Released With Improved Steam On Linux Performance  Phoronix

GNOME Circle was talked about earlier this month at the Linux App Summit 2020 while now it's been officially announced...

Linux Operating System Market 2020: Leading Company Profiles, Emerging Technologies, Share, Trends, Size, Industry Growth and Forecast | openSUSE, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Debian  Canaan Mountain Herald

Fanless Linux industrial embedded system makes a compact IoT gateway  CNX Software

Since early 2020, when I wrote about some fun Raspberry Pi projects and our Raspberry Pi eBook, I (like almost everyone) have been living and working from home.

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The excellent article 7 Git tricks that changed my life inspired me to write about another Git feature that's had a major impact on my experience using Git on the command line: aliases.

Defining Git aliases to serve as substitutes for commands provides two major benefits:

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Notable Developer Starts Patreon to Fund Apple Silicon Linux Port  MacRumors

Some people follow the tradition of creating New Year's resolutions. A year is a long time, though, so I plan with a seasonal theme or trajectory. Each quarter, I sit down and look at the upcoming three-month season and decide what I'll work on during that time.

For my latest theme, I decided I wanted to write a daily journal. I like having clear commitments, so I committed to writing for five minutes each day. I also like having observable commitments, even if it is just for me, so I put my entries in Git.

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Go is a popular programming language created by Google. The first release was on November 10, 2009, and version 1.0 was released in 2012. It is a pretty new language compared to languages like

The post How to Install Go in Ubuntu 20.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Microsoft Project Latte rumored to bring Android apps to Windows  SlashGear

While in recent weeks Linus Torvalds was becoming increasingly concerned over the size of the changes in Linux 5.10, 5.10-rc6 is out this evening and fortunately it has calmed down. At this point Linus is appearing relieved that Linux 5.10 will be in good shape for shipping on time and without any major concerns...

Linux 5.10-rc6 Released - This LTS Kernel Now Appearing In Good Shape  Phoronix

With this month's release of Chrome 87 having more performance improvements while Firefox 83 debuted with its "Warp" JavaScript improvements, it's a good time for some fresh Linux web browser benchmarks of these two main options. Plus with Firefox 84 to begin enabling WebRender by default in some Linux configurations, there is also a fresh run of Firefox with WebRender enabled.

Over the past year we have seen various Vulkan features landing in the FFmpeg repository and this past week brought more fixes and improvements around using the Vulkan API for accelerated filters and more...

Linux Software Market: Industry Demands, Top Key Players, Industry Analysis & F  News by aeresearch

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Earlier this month we covered the news of Xilinx is looking to upstream their open-source "AI Engine" driver to the Linux kernel. This comes as Xilinx and AMD are working on Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) support for their FPGAs with AMD being in the process of acquiring the FPGA giant. Now more open-source code is looking to be included in the Linux kernel tree...

Xilinx Continues Their Open-Source FPGA Upstreaming Push For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While consumer GPUs are reaching market with AV1 decode acceleration, there still is the matter of the various media APIs and multimedia software making use of it. In cases where that is missing or the user doesn't yet have a supported Tiger Lake / Ampere / RDNA2 GPU, the dav1d decoder remains the fastest open-source CPU-based AV1 decoder. Similarly, SVT-AV1 remains the fastest CPU-based AV1 encoder available...

The latest bit of obscure hardware support set to arrive with Linux 5.11 are the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii U dongles for the Guitar Hero Live...