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It's coming a few days late but The Qt Company's Lars Knoll just announced the official release of Qt 5.15.0...

COVID-19: Potential impact on Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2019- Global Market Report with Market Size, Market Growth, Industry Chain Structure, Trends, Challenges and Market Estimation to 2028  News Distinct

ODYSSEY expandable mini PC supports Win10, Linux and Arduino  Geeky Gadgets

Linux Kodachi 7.0 'Katana' Released: Browse The Internet Anonymously  Fossbytes

Linux chief says he's picking AMD over Intel  TechRadar

Python offers a rich set of options for visualizing data. I'll show you the basics of plotting in Matplotlib by creating a bar chart with grouped bars. It shows election results for the UK between 1966 and 2020:

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WordPress is best known as a website content management system, but it also a great learning management system (LMS) for delivering online courses. If that is what you are looking for out of WordPress, then H5P should be the top plugin on your list.

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IAR Systems Delivers Efficient Embedded Software Building on Linux  PRNewswire

How to use tmux to create a multi-pane Linux terminal window  Network World

One way to get started with an open source community is to write about it. You can contribute to technical documentation, share how you use the software, or write an article for Opensource.com. But getting started writing is easier said than done. The two most common excuses I hear for not writing are: "I have nothing new to say" and "I'm not a good writer." I'm here to dispel both of those myths.

What should you write about?

"Hunt for the stories that often get left out."
—Erik Larson

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Reiser5 was announced back on New Year's Eve with support for local volumes and supporting parallel scaling out and other improvements over the long-in-development but never mainlined Reiser4. While Reiser5 was not met with enthusiasm, Edward Shishkin has continued working on this next-generation file-system and today announced the latest round of improvements...

Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers  Phoronix

Microsoft is bent on bringing Linux desktop to Windows 10 users - Video  ZDNet

The crew working on the MSM DRM driver from Freedreno / Google / Code Aurora (Qualcomm) have an interesting batch of changes for this open-source GPU driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware come Linux 5.8...

Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel  Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle a quirk is being added to be able to reboot the 2009 era Apple MacBook without needing to boot with any special flags...

Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs  Phoronix

Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs  Phoronix

1. Linux chief says he's picking AMD over Intel  TechRadar India
2. Linux-creator Linus Torvalds joins Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips in embracing AMD over Intel  BetaNews
3. Linux creator ditches Intel, moves over to AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU  TweakTown
4. Linux 5.7-rc7 Kernel Released With It Looking To Be In Good Shape  Phoronix
5. Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC  The Register
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Free to Play Puzzle-Dating Sim Helltaker Now Available on Linux and Steam OS  Niche Gamer