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Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux  Phoronix

Teamviewer is a remote desktop application that enables fast and secure remote connections between PCs. With Teamviewer, users can share their desktops, share files, and even hold online meetings. TeamViewer is multi-platform and can...

New malware 'Golang' targeting Windows, Linux machines  BusinessLine

New malware 'Golang' targeting Windows, Linux machines  The Hindu BusinessLine

Fedora for the past few releases doesn't show the GRUB boot-loader menu by default when only Fedora is installed on the system as there is little purpose for most users and it just interrupts the boot flow. But for those wanting to access the GRUB bootloader menu on reboot, they offer integration in GNOME to easily reboot into this menu. The other exception is the menu will be shown if the previous boot failed. This functionality has relied on downstream patches but now they are working towards a better upstream solution...

Baidu joins Open Invention Network Linux patent protection group  ZDNet

Open source has always been about differing voices coming together to share ideas, iterate, challenge the status quo, solve problems, and innovate quickly. That ethos is rooted in inclusion and the opportunity for everyone to meaningfully contribute, and open source technology is better because of the diverse perspectives and experiences that are represented in its communities.

Mozilla Firefox 78 Is Now Available for Download on Linux, Windows, macOS  Softpedia News

Chinese malware 'Golang' targeting Windows, Linux machines  ETCIO.com

Chinese malware 'Golang' targeting Windows, Linux machines  Express Computer

FinOps Foundation Joins Linux Foundation to Bring Focus to Cloud Costs  ITPro Today

Zink is the generic OpenGL over Vulkan driver that has been in development as part of Mesa's Gallium3D code. It was just earlier this month that Zink achieved OpenGL 3.0 support and now it looks like OpenGL 3.1 will soon be flipped on...

Global Linux Software Industry Market Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2025  Express Journal

Painless file extraction on Linux  Network World

Lua 5.4 shipped today as the newest version of the interpreter for this scripting programming language that is particularly popular for embedding within games and other applications...

IBM donates AI ethics tools to Linux Foundation  TechTarget

Recently AMD posted UVD video decode support for GCN 1.0 with the AMDGPU driver, one of the long holdouts for letting the AMDGPU DRM driver approach feature parity with the longstanding Radeon DRM driver that is the default for GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPUs. That AMDGPU UVD GCN 1.0 decode support is going into the Linux 5.9 kernel later this summer after years ago Radeon driver developers largely dismissed the efforts of porting the UVD decode capability for these original GCN graphics cards over to AMDGPU...

AMD Publishes AMDGPU UVD Firmware For Southern Islands  Phoronix

Convert Ubuntu Linux into a ‘rolling release’ distribution by installing Rolling Rhino  Explica

CutiePi tablet based on Raspberry Pi CM3+ starts at $169  LinuxGizmos.com