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FSGSBASE Testing Is Encouraged Ahead Of Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Vantage Student Earns Certification, Scores in Top 10 Percent Nationally  West Bend News

Google's Nearby Share for Android may also be compatible with ChromeOS, Linux, Windows and macOS  Notebookcheck.net

Google's Nearby Share feature for Android may also support Chrome OS, Windows, Linux, and macOS  gizmochina

Two weeks after ROCm 3.5, the AMD Radeon team has now issued a patch update to this Radeon Open Compute stack...

TwilioQuest is a free role-playing video game for Windows, Linux and macOS with which you can learn to program  Explica

The Future of the Windows Subsystem for Linux - Thurrott.com  Thurrott.com

The Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and even the Raspberry Pi Zero can now see Vulkan support via a new unofficial "RPi-VK-Driver" that is offering even better performance than the Broadcom OpenGL driver...

The Pascal programming language is 50 years old this year. The Free Pascal Compiler for Pascal / Object Pascal is out with version 3.2 to celebrate, five years since FPC's previous 3.0 stable series. Somewhat amusing. this FPC 3.2 compiler update adds a Windows 16-bit target support for building Pascal code for Windows 3.0+...

FPC 3.2 Pascal Compiler Released In 2020 - Even Adds Windows 3.0 16-bit Support  Phoronix

KDE developers continue making much progress on enhancing their desktop through this pandemic and the nice summer weather...

KDE Plasma 5.19 Sees Many Regression Fixes, Other Work For Plasma 5.20  Phoronix

Wine-Staging has traditionally been around 800~850 patches over upstream while with Wine-Staging 5.11 this experimental/testing flavor of Wine has ticked down to just a 702 patch delta...

The Opensource.com community is full of people with varied interests; all brought together by their love of open source. The 2020 Opensource.com summer reading list reflects those diverse interests by covering books about a wide range of subjects and for different age groups. Books about mathematics, cryptography, Unix, and "coding" a sandcastle are just a few of the selections that comprise this year's list.

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Impact of Covid-19 Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market (2020 To 2027) | Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS  Surfacing Magazine

Mobian OS For PinePhone Aims To Bring Debian Linux On Mobile Devices  Fossbytes

The first batch of "drm-misc-next" changes have been sent in for DRM-Next that is targeting the Linux 5.9 merge window later this summer...

The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In  Phoronix

The First Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Changes For Linux 5.9 Sent In  Phoronix

The NetBeans (also known as Apache Netbeans) is an open-source and award-winning IDE (integrated development environment) application for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. The NetBeans IDE provides a much powerful Java application framework platform...