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Linux Basis Creates Its Personal Variations of Apple/Google Coronavirus Tracing Apps  Editorials 360

Earlier this year the Linux kernel landed split lock detection for being able to detect and optionally kill processes leading to a split lock since it can cause measurable performance issues and even possible unprivileged denial of service...

Intel Bus Lock Detection For The Linux Kernel Proceeding  Phoronix

Linux Frame-Buffer Console To Drop Accelerated Scrolling Since It's Full Of Bugs  Phoronix

September marked a decade since the OpenIndiana project was announced for continuing on with the OpenSolaris code-base (and ultimately based on Illumos) in being born out of the justified and proven accurate concerns when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source operating system...

For this installment of the "Managing with Open Values" series, we met again with Allison Matlack, an Open Organization Ambassador, to discuss her experiences using open values to manage her team by empowering individuals and creating partnerships, so everyone can feel accountable for their work.

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Linux Jargon Buster: What are GUI, CLI and TUI in Linux?  It's FOSS

AMD, Kernel Advancements & Tiger Lake Captivated Linux Readers In October  Phoronix

Another month in the books, another month closer to the end of the dreadful 2020. It was at least an eventful October with 268 original news articles and another 21 multi-page featured articles and Linux hardware reviews. The content ranged from the continuous Linux kernel advancements to exciting hardware announcements...

Linux Mint re-adds Chromium to its official repositories  Neowin

The Wine program for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms can run on a number of different architectures, but Wine doesn't handle the emulation of running Windows x86/x64 binaries on other architectures like 64-bit ARM or PowerPC. But that's what the Wine-based Hangover is about with currently allowing those conventional Windows binaries to run on AArch64 (ARM64) and 64-bit POWER too...

Can't find freshclam - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

With this month's Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux Mint development news there are two items worth calling attention to...

Linux Mint Now Packaging Their Own Chromium, Developing New IPTV Player  Phoronix

Linux Mint Now Packaging Their Own Chromium, Developing New IPTV Player  Phoronix

Impact of COVID-19 on Linux Software Market 2020 | Size, Growth, Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2026 | Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, Novell  PRnews Leader

Kick Microsoft Windows 10 to the curb — switch to Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 5.2 today!  BetaNews

Laptop vendors recently disclosed "Xe MAX" graphics as discrete Intel graphics set to appear within laptops in the coming weeks. That announcement was a bit unexpected and Intel did not brief the media in advance while today -- in an unusual announcement for a Saturday (Intel says it's timed for system availability, seemingly first in China) -- the company is formally announcing Iris Xe MAX.

Ubuntu Touch: A Brief History of This Ambitious Project  It's FOSS

Latest In-vehicle Infotainment Market by Component (Display unit, Control Panel, TCU, HUD), OS (Linux, QNX, MS, Others) Service- Forecast to 2027  re:Jerusalem