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Adding to the growing list of changes for the next FFmpeg release is now AV1 video decoding with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards...

Intel's Graphics Driver Now Sharing ~60% Codebase Between Windows/Linux, 90~100% The Performance  Phoronix

CBL-Mariner: Microsoft's internal Linux distribution for Azure first-party services and edge appliances  ZDNet

Microsoft announces “Open Azure Day” event to show developers how to run Linux apps “your way” on Azure  OnMSFT

New DevOps Practices and Tools Training and Certificate Program to Make it Easier to Incorporate DevOps into Development Processes  PRNewswire

Microsoft Office On Linux Is Now A Thing, Thanks To WinApps [How-to]  Fossbytes

Raspberry Pi 400 Is An ARM Linux Desktop PC  InfoQ.com

Raspberry Pi 400 Is An ARM Linux Desktop PC  InfoQ.com

Intel today is announcing their Server GPU for the data center based on their Xe-LP microarchitecture with an initial focus on high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and media streaming. For as exciting as the Intel Server GPU is, some exciting Intel Linux graphics driver details were also disclosed.

AMD and IBM are this morning announcing a multi-year, joint development agreement focused on "building upon open-source software, open standards, and open system architectures to drive Confidential Computing in the cloud and support a broad range of accelerators across high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise critical capabilities such as virtualization and encryption."..

Linux Operating System Market Trends, Report Research, Top Key Players, Development, Growth, Share Forecast Till 2027  The Daily Philadelphian

GCC 11 feature development is ending very shortly but landing in time are the patches last month for adding AVX-VNNI support...

Following the Mesa 20.3 branching on Monday and subsequent opening of Mesa 21.0 for development, the first release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing...

Stratodesk Announces the Worldwide Availability of the Windows Virtual Desktop Linux Client on Stratodesk NoTouch  PR Web

How to Install and Use Etcher on Linux for Making Live Linux USB  It's FOSS

How Microsoft is supporting open-source and low-code development to help companies keep moving  TechRepublic

Senior Linux Engineer  IT-Online

Cockpit is a service for Linux that provides a web-based interface for managing and monitoring hosts. It can be deployed in any size organization, even a small office, and it's a great way for home users to maintain the family IT infrastructure. I use it to manage and monitor all of the computers in my house—including Raspberry Pi.

Cockpit is a free and open source software project released under the LGPL v2.1+. It is sponsored by Red Hat and included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the RHEL Web Console.

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Knative is an open source community project that adds components to Kubernetes for deploying, running, and managing serverless, cloud-native applications. It enables more productive development with less interaction with Kubernetes' infrastructure.

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Home automation is a slippery slope; you have been warned! In this multipart series, I will discuss home automation using the open source project Home Assistant. This introductory article will cover my journey to Home Assistant, what the application does, and why it's important.

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