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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...

Intel Prepares Linux Kernel Support For Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)  Phoronix

Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Beta available for download  BetaNews

Global Linux Software Market 2020: Industrial Analysis and Forecasts 2026 | COVID19 Impact Analysis | Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Crypto Daily

A proposal is being discussed over the possibility of beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within Mesa 3D for this open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver stack along with the likes of Gallium3D video acceleration...

Linux Software Market 2020 Expected to reach highest CAGR in forecast period 2025 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat  The Daily Chronicle

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Future Scope including key players Windows, Mac OS, Linux  The Daily Chronicle

While the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver's "ACO" back-end was developed and funded by Valve with gaming in mind to optimize game load times and help with delivering optimal performance, it turns out ACO works damn well for some Vulkan compute workloads too...

New Hyper-V integration in WSL 2 leads to traffic leaking  WindowsReport.com

Microsoft releases KB4577063 update to fix Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and internet issues  BetaNews

For many people, programming is fun because it's a little like solving a puzzle. You know that, in theory, if you can just arrange logic statements and conditions in the right order, using just the right syntax, then you'll end up with an application that does something useful. The problem, strangely, is that sometimes you don't know why you'd need the application you end up with. It's like stepping outside for a walk with nowhere to go. Just as marathons provide a framework and a goal for aimless foot traffic, there are events without a cause for coders.

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Free and open source software (FOSS) and the distributed digital manufacturing of free and open source hardware (FOSH) have shown great promise for developing custom scientific tools. For some time now, FOSH has provided scientists a high return on investment. In fact, my previous research in the Open Source Lab reported substantial economic savings from using these technologies.

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Developing your website from scratch can be a daunting task. It’s time-consuming and expensive if you are planning to hire a developer. An easy way to get your blog or website off the ground

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For a while now there have been references to "Vivaldi" as a new Chromebook keyboard firmware for future devices. References in Chromium OS repositories have pointed to expanded keyboard layouts and other new features with Vivaldi. Coming with the Linux 5.10 kernel is now a new HID driver for supporting some of the differences with Vivaldi...

Traverse Ten64 eight-core ARM64 10GbE networking platform runs mainline Linux (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

The cp command (which stands for a copy) is one of the commonly used commands on Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems, for copying files and directories. In this guide, we will show how

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Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems  Phoronix