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Red Hat's David Airlie has been on quite a spree lately with open-source graphics driver improvements from OpenGL 4 for LLVMpipe to now merging "VALLIUM" for a Vulkan software implementation...

Version 20.08 of Kdenlive has been released, the KDE-aligned open-source non-linear video editor platform that is among the best in the field for open-source, community-driven projects...

After covering the Linux/open-source POWER10 bring-up for a number of months already, IBM has finally announced firm information on their forthcoming POWER10 processors. POWER10 looks promising but these 7nm CPUs will not begin shipping until the second half of next year...

IBM Details 7nm POWER10 CPUs But Not Shipping Until H2'2021  Phoronix

How to make sure data that should be backed up gets backed up  Network World

Global Linux Computer Market 2020 Industry Trends, Forecast 2025 (Covid-19 Impact) Analysis By Top Vendors- Dell Minifree Slimbook System76  The News Brok

Going back many months have been work on making Wine work nicely on 64-bit POWER (POWER9) for ultimately being able to handle Windows programs on IBM POWER/OpenPOWER hardware. The latest Wine work has now been sent out for benefiting this CPU architecture popular with free software purists...

First Official MX Linux 19.2 Featuring KDE Plasma Desktop Released  Fossbytes

Linux Software Market 2020 | Know the Latest COVID19 Impact Analysis And Strategies of Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Scientect

Facebook becomes a top-tier Linux Foundation member  IT PRO

I have been a loyal Vim user since, well, I don't even remember any longer. Over the years, I tried other editors, but Vim commands and keyboard shortcuts are second nature to me, so much so that I ended up doing :w every time I wanted to save in another application. So, for a long time, I stuck with Vim for all my note-taking and writing.

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If you're a hacker running Windows, you don't need a proprietary application to compile code. With the Minimalist GNU for Windows (MinGW) project, you can download and install the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) along with several other essential GNU components to enable GNU Autotools on your Windows computer.

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If you're using Java to write business applications, you may know that Java Standard Edition (SE) is not open source software. It is not managed by a foundation, like Python or JavaScript, and in January 2019, Oracle changed its policy to require a commercial license for any use of SE, from the developer's local environment to production.

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Changing to W10 from Linux - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 with Latest Covid-19 Effect Analysis & Strategies of Top Companies Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs etc.  Scientect

Docker is a most popular, open-source platform for developers and system administrators to build, run, and share applications with containers. Containerization (the use of containers to deploy applications) is becoming popular because containers are

Facebook joins The Linux Foundation at highest level  Express Computer

Linux Software Market Size 2020 COVID-19 Impact Report By Top Companies, (By Type – Debian, Fedora, Opensuse, Others),(By Application – Household, Enterprise, Government, Others)  The News Brok

For years Mesa's LLVMpipe software rasterizer has been bound to OpenGL 3.3 support but finally in recent months Red Hat's David Airlie has been tackling OpenGL 4.x support... Right now in Mesa it's at OpenGL 4.3 but there are patches seemingly to be mainlined very soon that will take it up to OpenGL 4.5...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Report Expected Massive Growth by 2020-2026 | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice), Shimo  Bulletin Line