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Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Beta available for download  BetaNews

Global Linux Software Market 2020: Industrial Analysis and Forecasts 2026 | COVID19 Impact Analysis | Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Crypto Daily

A proposal is being discussed over the possibility of beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within Mesa 3D for this open-source OpenGL/Vulkan driver stack along with the likes of Gallium3D video acceleration...

Linux Software Market 2020 Expected to reach highest CAGR in forecast period 2025 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat  The Daily Chronicle

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Future Scope including key players Windows, Mac OS, Linux  The Daily Chronicle

While the Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver's "ACO" back-end was developed and funded by Valve with gaming in mind to optimize game load times and help with delivering optimal performance, it turns out ACO works damn well for some Vulkan compute workloads too...

New Hyper-V integration in WSL 2 leads to traffic leaking  WindowsReport.com

Microsoft releases KB4577063 update to fix Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and internet issues  BetaNews

For many people, programming is fun because it's a little like solving a puzzle. You know that, in theory, if you can just arrange logic statements and conditions in the right order, using just the right syntax, then you'll end up with an application that does something useful. The problem, strangely, is that sometimes you don't know why you'd need the application you end up with. It's like stepping outside for a walk with nowhere to go. Just as marathons provide a framework and a goal for aimless foot traffic, there are events without a cause for coders.

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Free and open source software (FOSS) and the distributed digital manufacturing of free and open source hardware (FOSH) have shown great promise for developing custom scientific tools. For some time now, FOSH has provided scientists a high return on investment. In fact, my previous research in the Open Source Lab reported substantial economic savings from using these technologies.

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Developing your website from scratch can be a daunting task. It’s time-consuming and expensive if you are planning to hire a developer. An easy way to get your blog or website off the ground

The post How to Install Drupal with Apache on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

For a while now there have been references to "Vivaldi" as a new Chromebook keyboard firmware for future devices. References in Chromium OS repositories have pointed to expanded keyboard layouts and other new features with Vivaldi. Coming with the Linux 5.10 kernel is now a new HID driver for supporting some of the differences with Vivaldi...

Traverse Ten64 eight-core ARM64 10GbE networking platform runs mainline Linux (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

The cp command (which stands for a copy) is one of the commonly used commands on Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems, for copying files and directories. In this guide, we will show how

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Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems  Phoronix

Valve has updated their monthly Steam Hardware/Software Survey statistics for September and they indicate the closest we've seen in a while for Steam on Linux closing back in on the 1.0% threshold...

Should You Build For Windows, Mac, IOS, Android, Or Linux? Yes!  Hackaday

New York Launches Bluetooth-Enabled COVID-19 Contact Tracing App from Google, Apple, and Linux  Tech Times

The Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" beta is now available for testing of Ubuntu Desktop / Cloud / Server products as well as derivatives like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu...

The third release candidate of OpenZFS 2.0 is now available for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently for Linux and FreeBSD platforms...