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Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

This month Western Digital introduced the WD_BLACK SN850 as the latest PCI Express 4.0 solid-state drive hitting the market. The WD_BLACK SN850 is a surprisingly strong performer if looking to upgrade to PCIe 4.0 solid-state storage, competing with the fastest of the consumer drives currently available.

Linux Software Market Size, Revenue, Share, Scope, Growth Rate And Forecast To 2027  Khabar South Asia

Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Top Manufacturers: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS etc.  Murphy's Hockey Law

CUPS printing system founder Michael Sweet who left Apple last year and that left CUPS in a stagnate position (as of writing, still no commits to their Git repository since April) while Sweet continues pushing ahead with his new and modern "PAPPL" effort...

With Qt 6.0 due to be released in December, Qt-minded consulting firm KDAB has published a blog post outlining the extensive 3D renderer improvements made for this big toolkit update. While Qt6's 3D rendering abilities are much improved, there still is further work ahead...

Red Hat : Emerging Trends of Using Open Source Software in Education  marketscreener.com

Up to now the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has only enabled Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) support by default for discrete graphics cards. But now that requirement is lifted for supporting NGG on forthcoming GFX10.3 (RDNA 2) APUs...

GhostBSD 20.11.28 is out as the latest version of this desktop-focused BSD operating system based on FreeBSD...

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...