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Linux Mint 20 ISOs finalised, release due in the coming days  Neowin

Intilop Delivers a Ready to Deploy, Four Thousand TCP/UDP Session 2U-Hardware Accelerator Box with Linux Kernel Bypass Drivers for Extreme-Performance Networking  Design and Reuse

Daniel van Vugt of Canonical who has been responsible for many GNOME performance optimizations in recent years has another tantalizing improvement under review...

For aiding in testing and other purposes, the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) range for FreeSync/Adaptive-Sync setups will now be exposed via DebugFS with Linux 5.9...

Linux 5.9 To Expose Adaptive-Sync / VRR Range Via DebugFS  Phoronix

New high-end Linux laptop: System76's Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU  ZDNet

It's not yet ready to take on the likes of Xfce and LXQt, but EGMDE is surprisingly still being worked on by Mir developers of Ubuntu/Canonical as a lightweight desktop...

EGMDE Is Still Being Hacked On As A Lightweight Mir Desktop  Phoronix

Mageia 8 Alpha 1 is out this morning as the newest version of this Linux distribution that originates from the once legendary Mandrake Linux...

Mageia 8 Alpha 1 Released With Better ARM Support, Linux 5.7 Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Future Prospects, Growth And Outlook (2020-2026) | Fortune Business Insights ...  The Midland Weekly

Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available – OSnews  OS News

Nvidia squashes display driver code execution, information leak bugs  ZDNet

Covid-19 Impact on Global Linux Software Market (2020-2026) | Potential growth, attractive valuation make it is a long-term investment | Top Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Cole of Duty

New Cryptominer Malware is Attacking Windows and Linux Machines  ISBuzz News

Databricks hands over MLFlow to Linux  EnterpriseTalk

Apple macOS 'Big Sur' Theme Is Getting Ready For Linux Desktops  Fossbytes

Linux powered STMicro STM32MP1 Solder-down QFN-Style SoM Measures 27x27mm  CNX Software

GNOME is one of the most popular Linux desktops today. It started as a humble desktop called the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and was built on top of the GIMP GTK libraries. Its 1.0 release was announced in 1999, just two years after the project got started.

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Last Christmas, my wife and I traveled to my hometown of Ft. Pierce, Florida, and frequented a local establishment on the beach. There, we met a couple from The Midlands in the UK. The music was loud and so was the beer, so it was a bit hard to hear. Plus, even though it "seemed" they were speaking English, it was sometimes a challenge to understand what they were saying. I thought my time in Australia would have given me enough linguistic power, but, alas, a lot went over my head. There was more than the usual "soccer is football" or "trunk is a boot" sort of confusion.

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