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Ubuntu Studio, the spin of Ubuntu focused on multimedia production, announced last month that for their 20.10 release due out later this year they would be transitioning from their long-standing Xfce desktop environment over to using KDE Plasma. While still in early form, the transition is going ahead quite well...

Wine 5.8 was released on Friday with a GIF encoder, more WIneD3D Vulkan progress, and other changes while out today is Wine-Staging 5.8 for this experimental blend...

It's been another busy week for KDE developers even with everything happening globally around the coronavirus there are a lot of open-source desktop innovations continuing...

CPUs for Debian Buster - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The FreeType library that is used by many open-source projects for font rendering and other font operations, is out with their first release of the year...

Student Developers Prefer Microsoft Windows Over Ubuntu And Arch Linux  Fossbytes

Developed by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code is a free and open-source, cross-platform IDE or code editor that enables developers to develop applications and write code using a myriad of programming languages such as C,...

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we see the success of virtual conferences, continued impact of open source on COVID-19, Retropie adds support for Raspberry Pi 4, and more open source news.

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Indian Startup Dhiway Joins the ToIP Global Foundation as Founding Member  Goa Chronicle

Crucial P2 Performance On Ubuntu Linux - An Affordable 500GB NVMe SSD Review  Phoronix

Last month Crucial introduced their P2 NVMe SSD series as their new low-cost successor to their prior P1 series. The Crucial P2 500GB NVMe solid-state drive retails for $60~65 USD which offers good value and yields better performance than their prior low-cost P1 SSDs.

3.5-inch SBC offers Ryzen V1000 and up to four GbE ports  LinuxGizmos.com

Wine 5.8 has been uncorked for the weekend as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...

Wine 5.8 Released With GIF Encoder, More WineD3D Vulkan Progress  Phoronix

2MP embedded camera captures high frame rate video  LinuxGizmos.com

MakuluLinux Delivers Modernity With New Core Platform  TechNewsWorld

How to Send Files to Trash from the Linux Command Line  Tom's Hardware

MakuluLinux Delivers Modernity With New Core Platform  LinuxInsider.com

Xrdesktop, the Valve-funded Linux desktop support for VR headsets and making the likes of GNOME and KDE window managers VR-aware, is out with a new release...

prerequesites for installing Anaconda on a Asus Notebook that runs MX-Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer