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Announced over one month ago was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin with an emphasis on improving the Wayland support and better embracing modern technologies. A beta of KWinFT is now available...

AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors  Phoronix

Landing this weekend in hwmon-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel cycle is the recently reported on "amd_energy" driver for supporting AMD Zen/Zen2 core and package energy sensors...

For several years now GCC has offered a embeddable JIT compiler that for GPL applications can serve as a bytecode interpreter, an experimental Python compiler, and other possible use-cases with this libgccjit library. There now are patches pending for bringing libgccjit to Windows...

COVID-19 IMPACT ON MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Booming Segments Major Giants Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo  Cole of Duty

I've been on a journey from Mac to Linux since joining the staff at Opensource.com almost two years ago. In a huge step for me, I finally made the call to have my personal laptop also run Linux. Due to the coverage of System76 in our community, I thought I'd give it a shot.

I'm coming from a MacBook Pro as my go-to device, so I went with a near-standard build of the Lemur Pro for a comparable system. A reasonably priced upgrade to more RAM and a speedy NVMe hard drive later, my order was on its way.

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It's been a long time since I properly learned a new language—computer or human. Maybe 25 years. That language was Java, and although I've had to write little bits of C (very, very little) and JavaScript in the meantime, the only two languages I've written much actual code in have been Perl and Java.

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Cloud-init is a standard—it would not be a stretch to say it is the standard—that cloud providers use to provide initialization and configuration data to cloud instances. It is used most often on the first boot of a new instance to automate network setup, account creation, and SSH (secure shell) key installation—anything required to bring a new system online so that it is accessible by the user.

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Business Outline of Linux Software Market 2020- 2025 To Surge in The Near Future  GroundAlerts.com

World’s first AMD-only Linux laptop revealed  MyBroadband

Embedded Linux Market Industry Size, Share Analysis, Top Players Eyeing to Penetrate Into Emerging Nations with Untapped Opportunities and COVID-19 Impact Analysis 2020-2027  Cole of Duty

This improvement was officially released and published on March 15, 2020, with Version 2.0.0 and distributed on the GitHub site. The much appreciated Rdiff-backup application allows users to back up a directory to another...

Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack Linux) announced the release of Kali Linux Version 2020.2 on May 12th, 2020. Kali Linux is a Debian based distribution specially focused on penetration testing and digital forensics...

Windows 10 moves closer to 'true' Linux with graphical support for WSL2  Channel Asia Singapore

Linux-creator Linus Torvalds joins Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips in embracing AMD over Intel  BetaNews

An interesting anecdote shared in today's Linux 5.7-rc7 announcement is word that Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds switched his main rig over to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper...

While last week's Linux 5.7-rc6 kernel was quite big, Linux 5.7-rc7 is out today and it's on the smaller side of things in reassuring Linus Torvalds that the stable release of this kernel can happen soon...

What happens when you run Linux on a toaster?  DataCenterNews Asia

What happens when you run Linux on a toaster?  IT Brief Australia

Linux Work Culminating On A "READFILE" Syscall For Reading Small Files Efficiently  Phoronix