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TeamViewer is a cross-platform, proprietary application that allows a user to remotely gain access to another user’s desktop, share the desktop and even allow file transfer between computers over an internet connection. It’s a...

Cross-platform freedom: SEGGER's J-Flash now available fo...  evertiq.com

The X.Org Board of Directors elections wrapped up this week with four new members now serving this organization that oversees the X.Org Server, Mesa, Wayland, and other critical Linux desktop infrastructure...

X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020  Phoronix

The value of an organisation is reflected by its people and its culture. At Red Hat, we are immensely proud of the people within our organisation and their ongoing contribution to our vibrant culture and workplace. It turns out, we’re not the only ones to hold this view.

Once again, we've wrapped up another Red Hat Summit. We've been surprised and humbled by how many people have joined us online this year to learn about Red Hat's products and plans for the next year. Likewise, we want to thank all of our partners and customers who've shared their stories and successes on the journey to the open hybrid cloud, and their thoughts on the road ahead. Here's a look at some of our highlights. 

Mesa 20.1 feature development is now over with it being branched from Git master and subsequently Mesa 20.1-RC1 being released this evening...

Popcorn Linux has been a multi-year effort out of Virginia Tech's Software and Systems Research Group for distributed thread execution across systems and even potentially different ISAs/accelerators given today's heterogeneous hardware...

Virginia Tech's "Popcorn Linux" For Distributed Thread Execution Seeking Feedback, Possible Upstreaming  Phoronix

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

New deep dive video explores Windows Subsystem for Linux's Project Astoria roots  Neowin

Fedora 32 released with Lenovo support  ZDNet

It looks like AMD Zen 3 CPUs will finally be supporting PCID! And memory protection keys are coming too, at least according to AMD's latest programmer reference manual...

A premium supporter was asking this week whether for those newly-upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS if the graphics stack is in good enough shape or if I would recommend running Mesa 20.1-devel for better AMD Linux gaming performance... The short answer, sans any particular changes you are after in Mesa 20.1-devel, the bigger gain for running on this new Ubuntu release is to instead enable RADV+ACO as a much more pressing boost...

For Radeon Gamers On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, It's Generally Worthwhile Flipping On RADV's ACO  Phoronix

How to run Linux distro app as WSL 2 running on WSL 1  H2S Media

Windows Subsystem for Linux started as Project Astoria on Windows Phone - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

CutiePi designs an open source, Raspberry Pi-powered Linux tablet (crowdfunding coming soon)  Liliputing

VESA announced today version 2.0 of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode specification...