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Rochester Institute of Technology is establishing Open@RIT, an initiative dedicated to supporting all kinds of "open work," including—but not limited to—open source software, open data, open hardware, open educational resources, Creative Commons-licensed work, and open research.

The new open source programs office aims to determine and grow the footprint of RIT's impact on all things "open," leading to more collaboration, creation, and contribution, on and off campus.

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In this guide, we will show how to switch to another or a specific user account without requiring a password. For example, we have a user account called postgres (the default PostgreSQL superuser system

The post How to Switch (su) to Another User Account without Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux Software Market 2020 In-Depth Analysis of Industry Share, Size, Growth Outlook up to 2027  The Daily Chronicle

Various Linux systems available for Tuxedo Aura 15 laptop based on AMD Ryzen 7 4700U  Phone Mantra

XCP-ng as the open-source hypervisor built atop XenServer is preparing for its 8.2 LTS release while this week marked the availability of the first beta...

The ‘Introduction to Linux’ Course on edX.org Surpasses One Million Enrollments  IBL News

Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Beta Launched  Editorials 360

Developers made a cleaner way to install Steam on a Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Tuxedo Aura 15 is a Linux laptop with Ryzen 7 4700U for about $935 and up  Liliputing

Intel engineers today sent out their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the company's forthcoming hybrid architecture processors...

Linux Kernel Sees Initial Patches For Supporting Intel Hybrid CPUs  Phoronix

Red Hat Code Sleuths Uncover Mysterious Bug in Registry Service  thenewstack.io

Everything a Linux admin needs to know about working from the command line  TechRepublic

AMD has been sending out a lot of new Linux graphics driver enablement code recently for the Linux with the newest being the "Green Sardine" platform...

AMD Sends Out Initial Linux Graphics Driver Support For The "Green Sardine"  Phoronix

Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance On The Linux 5.8 Kernel  Phoronix

Given that Ubuntu 20.10 will be shipping with Linux 5.8 out-of-the-box along with other autumn 2020 Linux distributions where Linux 5.9 is landing too late, here is a fresh comparison of several different AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" and Intel Xeon "Cascade Lake" processors on this current stable kernel release for seeing how the performance is standing up as we approach this next round of Linux distribution releases.

Trending now: Covid-19 impact on Linux Software Market Growth, Segments, Revenue, Manufacturers & Forecast Research Report | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  The Daily Chronicle

Why Does Eric Raymond Think Windows Will Lose Desktop War To Linux?  Fossbytes

Following the announcement this summer of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) as an exciting feature coming to Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year, Intel's open-source engineers quickly began with patches to LLVM and GNU toolchain support for AMX. Now Intel engineers have sent out their patches in preparing the Linux kernel for AMX...