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Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 19:36
While the LibreOffice fork is much more popular than OpenOffice these days, the Apache Software Foundation does continue maintaining the OpenOffice codebase born out of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice...

UBports Improving Its Installer For Deploying Ubuntu Touch On Smartphones

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 18:33
The UBports community that continues advancing the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform has been working on improvements to its installer...

GCC Getting Wired Up For Intel's Key Locker, UINTR, HRESET, AVX-VNNI

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 18:21
Following this month's Intel programming reference manual update disclosing a number of new instruction set extensions, Intel's compiler engineers have gone public with patches for implementing some of these forthcoming CPU features...

AMD Laptops With Radeon dGPU Graphics Receive Fix For Poor Linux Power Management

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 17:49
The kernel power management changes have been sent in for Linux 5.10 with a few items worth pointing out from faster hibernation to fixing power management handling for AMD laptops with both integrated and discrete graphics...

Try Linux on any computer with this bootable USB tool

opensource.com - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 15:01

Fedora Media Writer is a small, lightweight, comprehensive tool that simplifies the Linux getting-started experience. It downloads and writes Fedora Workstation or Server onto a USB drive that can boot up on any system, making it accessible for you to try Fedora Linux without having to install it to your hard drive.


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Teach a virtual class with Moodle on Linux

opensource.com - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 15:00

The pandemic has created a greater need for remote education than ever before. This makes a learning management system (LMS) like Moodle more important than ever for ensuring that education stays on track as more and more schooling is delivered virtually.


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How to Share a Local Folder with a Remote Host Running on VMWare

Tecmint - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 13:15

In this article, we are going to see how to share a local folder with a remote host running on VMWare Workstation. If you are someone wondering what VMWare Workstation is, it is a

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Linux 5.10 Media Changes Bring A New "Vidtv" Virtual Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00
The media subsystem of the Linux kernel is seeing a number of changes with the in-development Linux 5.10...

Ansible in the partner ecosystem: 5 lessons in 5 years

Red Hat News - Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:00

This week, Red Hat is celebrating an important milestone. It’s been five years since we acquired Ansible, an open source community project with a new way to approach managing systems and applications.

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