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Tech today: IBM dividend boost; Red Hat growth; NetApp's AI startups; Lenovo-Linux; FirstNet tops 1M  WRAL Tech Wire

Valve along with their comrades at CodeWeavers are preparing Proton 5.0-7 as the newest version of their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Proton 5.0-7 Being Prepared With Newer DXVK, Updated VKD3D Layer  Phoronix

Linux-powered dev kit debuts AI-enabled Cortex-A7 camera SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-powered dev kit debuts AI-enabled Cortex-A7 camera SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

How a Hardware Genius Turned a 1930s Teletype Into a Linux Terminal  Popular Mechanics

GPUs Unleashed: Intel Releases First Unlocked GPU Driver For OEM Systems  AnandTech

Fedora 32 Linux-based operating system available for download with GNOME 3.36  BetaNews

Ubuntu 20.04 Gaming Performance Across Desktops, X.Org vs. Wayland  Phoronix

Last month we provided some early benchmarks looking at the Ubuntu 20.04 X.Org vs. Wayland gaming performance under GNOME 3.36, but now that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been officially released, here is a look at the AMD Radeon Linux gaming performance across a wide variety of desktops on both X.Org and Wayland where supported.

Fedora 32 has officially been released as the latest installment of this Red Hat supported community Linux distribution known for its bleeding-edge features and packages...

Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36  Phoronix

Get Control Of Your Linux Laptop With TUXEDO Control Center  Forbes

The Intel P-State driver has been going through a number of improvements recently including transitioning to the "Schedutil" governor by default on some systems so far in this governor making use of scheduler utilization data. But Intel's graphics team meanwhile has been working on P-State changes to improve the GPU-bound energy efficiency and that is now spun as a new "adaptive" governor...

New Intel "Adaptive" P-State Frequency Governor Volleyed For Better GPU-Bound Efficiency  Phoronix

New Intel "Adaptive" P-State Frequency Governor Volleyed For Better GPU-Bound Efficiency  Phoronix

Kaloom™ and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Provide a Unified Solution for Edge Sites  Odessa American

Now under the Linux Foundation, the Fintech Open Source Foundation wants to accelerate software development across financial services  Tearsheet

"I wanted to link to a particular Wikipedia article on my blog, but I found there wasn't one on that topic, so I wrote it myself," says Netha Hussain, 2020 Women in Open Source Academic Award winner. "That's the beauty of open source; anyone can contribute."

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"Growing up, I was a bit of a field marshal," Megan Byrd-Sanicki, 2020 Women in Open Source Community Award winner, says with a smile. "I was always the one pulling classmates together. 'We're going to play a game. Come on, everyone, I'll teach you the rules.' I'd also have an eye to the sidelines, trying to identify who wasn't being included and how I could draw them in."

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