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AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 has been issued today as the company's latest open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver based off their official driver source tree...

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.2 Flips On The Pipeline Binary Cache, Tunes SoTR Performance  Phoronix

Linux laptops: Lenovo is going to sell these ThinkPads with Fedora preinstalled  TechRepublic

Raspberry Pi today announced their newest product, the High Quality Camera, which starts at $50 and supports interchangeable lenses...

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, Trend Analysis, Growth Factor and Analysis by Its Key Vendors 2025  Latest Herald

Besides those systems now seeing Schedutil by default as the CPU frequency scaling governor and some Radeon gaming performance gains to note, the performance of Linux 5.7 in our testing thus far has largely been on track with Linux 5.6 stable...

For science fiction fans, it feels like video chat was a long time coming, but now it's safe to say that a video call is indeed a great way to communicate remotely. Just as advertised by Star Trek and countless Philip K. Dick novels, the human face conveys a lot of information that the human voice doesn't. There's a human connection established through a video call that doesn't quite happen with text or even voice chats. It's a triumph of modern technology.

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"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

We work with binaries daily, yet we understand so little about them. By binaries, I mean the executable files that you run daily, right from your command line tools to full-fledged applications.

Linux provides a rich set of tools that makes analyzing binaries a breeze! Whatever might be your job role, if you are working on Linux, knowing the basics about these tools will help you understand your system better.

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Lenovo to offer Linux laptops  Techradar

In this strange and difficult time of a global pandemic, we are all called upon to do things differently, to change our routines, and to learn new things.

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Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'  The Register

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2020 OPPORTUNITIES, REVENUE – Sagemcom, Hisense, Coship, Skyworth, Yinhe, Huawei, HiSilicon, Tvip, Changhong – Cole Reports  Cole of Duty

Released on Wednesday was AOMP 11.5 as the latest version of the AMD/ROCm compiler based off LLVM Clang and focused on OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

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...