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How to Free Up Space in /boot Partition on Ubuntu Linux?  It's FOSS

Linux Operating System Market Is Booming Worldwide | Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux  The Daily Chronicle

While Plasma 5.20 isn't shipping until later this month, already for Plasma 5.21 down the pipe is a big change and that is the optional support for systemd starting up of the Plasma session. This can lead to faster startup/load times and other improvements while even the process of bringing up the systemd support helped uncover other KDE bugs...

Linux Software Market | COVID-19 Impact | Understand The Key Growth Drivers Developments And Innovations-Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, Novell, Facebook, DELL, RedHat, Twitter, Oracle, IBM  Crypto Daily

From new hardware releases to figuring out that Linux 5.9 performance regression to interesting open-source software advancements, September was an interesting trek with 259 original articles on the site and another 15 featured articles / multi-page Linux hardware reviews...

Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September  Phoronix

Following yesterday's release of the finalized OpenCL 3.0 specification, open-source Intel developers have released OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size 2020 | Segmentation by Growth Trends, Latest Innovations, Future Demand Status, Business Share Forecast to 2026  Absolute News Journal

Linux and macOS Versions of Commercial ‘Malware’ FinSpy Found Online by Amnesty International  Security Boulevard

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 bypasses the Windows 10 Firewall  BleepingComputer

This article is all about my journey on switching from Windows 10 to Linux Mint 20, how I got easily adapted to the Linux environment, and some resources that helped me to set up

The post How I Switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Loki is an Apache 2.0-licensed open source log-aggregation framework designed by Grafana Labs and built with tremendous support from a growing community. It is also the project I work on every day. In this article, rather than just talking about how Loki works, I will provide a hands-on introduction to solving real problems with it.

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Navigating your Linux files with ranger  Network World

InterPlanetary Storm Botnet Infects 13K Mac, Android Devices  Threatpost

IPStorm botnet expands from Windows to Android, Mac, and Linux  ZDNet

People are often surprised when they find out that blockchain technology, which is known for its security, is built on open source software code. In fact, this openness is what creates its security and reliability.

One of the core values of building anything as open source is gaining efficiency. Creating a community of developers with different perspectives and skillsets, all working on the same code base, can exponentially increase the number and complexity of applications built.

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In addition to the last minute AMDGPU fixes for Linux 5.9 that include work on the RDNA2 new GPU support and promoting Navi 12 out of the experimental status, an initial batch of fixes for AMDGPU were also sent in to DRM-Next on Wednesday in addressing early fallout from the new feature code slated for Linux 5.10...

AMDGPU Gets A Big Batch Of Fixes For Its New Driver Code Coming In Linux 5.10  Phoronix

AMDGPU Gets A Big Batch Of Fixes For Its New Driver Code Coming In Linux 5.10  Phoronix

One of the fundamental changes with Fedora 33 is making use of systemd-resolved by default for network name resolution. A number of users testing out Fedora 33 on desktops and servers have run into various issues with systemd-resolved and sought to revert and delay this default behavioral change until a later release...