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AMD Laptops With Radeon dGPU Graphics Receive Fix For Poor Linux Power Management

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 17:49
The kernel power management changes have been sent in for Linux 5.10 with a few items worth pointing out from faster hibernation to fixing power management handling for AMD laptops with both integrated and discrete graphics...

Try Linux on any computer with this bootable USB tool

opensource.com - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 15:01

Fedora Media Writer is a small, lightweight, comprehensive tool that simplifies the Linux getting-started experience. It downloads and writes Fedora Workstation or Server onto a USB drive that can boot up on any system, making it accessible for you to try Fedora Linux without having to install it to your hard drive.


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Teach a virtual class with Moodle on Linux

opensource.com - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 15:00

The pandemic has created a greater need for remote education than ever before. This makes a learning management system (LMS) like Moodle more important than ever for ensuring that education stays on track as more and more schooling is delivered virtually.


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How to Share a Local Folder with a Remote Host Running on VMWare

Tecmint - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 13:15

In this article, we are going to see how to share a local folder with a remote host running on VMWare Workstation. If you are someone wondering what VMWare Workstation is, it is a

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Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00
The media subsystem of the Linux kernel is seeing a number of changes with the in-development Linux 5.10...

Ansible in the partner ecosystem: 5 lessons in 5 years

Red Hat News - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00

This week, Red Hat is celebrating an important milestone. It’s been five years since we acquired Ansible, an open source community project with a new way to approach managing systems and applications.

AMD SEV-ES Sent In For Linux 5.10 To Further Secure Guest VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 08:42
While the mainline Linux kernel for quite a while now has supported AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC processors as a means of better securing guest virtual machines (VMs) and public clouds with hardware memory encryption and using one key per VM to not only protect between guests but also the hypervisor, with Linux 5.10 comes AMD SEV-ES as another step forward for secure virtualization on AMD EPYC...

Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 07:00
Good news for Raspberry Pi 4 users... The V3DV Vulkan driver developed over the past year for newer Broadcom VideoCore hardware with an emphasis on the Raspberry Pi 4 support is now mainlined in Mesa 20.3!..

Android 12 Appears To Support Using WireGuard

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 06:50
WireGuard has long been available as an app on the Google Play store for those wishing to use this cross-platform, open-source secure VPN tunnel solution on Google's mobile operating system. But for Android 12 it appears there will be a form of official support...

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