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How To Install WSL 2 On Windows 10: Goodbye Dual-Boot!  TechDipper

A Cogl driver API clean-up within GNOME's Mutter code-base was merged this week after being open for two months. This cleanup could ultimately help if/when Mutter decides to add a Vulkan back-end...

Following AMD publishing the open-source Linux driver patches for "Sienna Cichlid" (Navi 2) that included the RadeonSI OpenGL driver changes, the RADV Vulkan driver has now tacked on support for this next-generation Navi GPU...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For Sienna Cichlid  Phoronix

Titanfall 2 runs on Linux thanks to Proton  AltChar

Global Edge Computing Market 2020 by top Companies: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Cisco Systems, Inc., Amazon Web Services, Inc., The Linux Foundation and Other  3rd Watch News

The past number of months Facebook engineering has been working on a new slab memory controller for Linux that can offer less memory fragmentation and lower memory use and slab utilization. The sixth version of these patches were published earlier this month...

Latest Slab Cgroup Memory Controller Patches Saving ~1GB RAM Per Host On Facebook Servers  Phoronix

Red Dead Redemption 2 actually performs better on Linux than Windows with AMD Graphics  guru3d.com

With the recent worldwide pandemic and stay-at-home orders, I have been looking for things to do to replace some of my usual activities. I started to update my home electronics setup and, as part of that, to delve into home automation. Some of my friends use Amazon's Alexa to turn lights on and off in their house, and that is appealing on some level. However, I am a privacy-conscious individual, and I was never really comfortable with devices from Google or Amazon listening to my family all the time (I'll ignore cellphones for the sake of this conversation).

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Are you a designer looking to share your talents? Open Source Design may just be the place for you. It is "a community of designers and developers pushing more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open source software."

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In 2010-2011, Mike Jumper started the Guacamole project, a multi-protocol gateway that allowed admins to securely serve up desktops remotely. The client interface ran in the browser, so it was a lightweight, easy-to-use replacement for some older remote access solutions. The project immediately started to grow, resulting in a number of incoming requests for support and help.

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Since the inception of the World Wide Web (www), the HTTP protocol has evolved over the years to deliver secure and fast digital content over the internet. The most widely used version is HTTP...

AMD Van Gogh Lite GFX 1040 GPU spotted: RDNA2 Little Navi graphics possible on upcoming APU, potentially blowing away Tiger Lake Xe and the NVIDIA GeForce MX350  Notebookcheck.net

broot is a command-line file manager for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud Across the UK  UC Today

Best Linux online class bundle deal: 88% off (UK deal)  Mashable

It's looking like the Linux kernel support for the FSGSBASE instruction that has been present since Intel "Ivy Bridge" CPUs might finally see mainlining with Linux 5.9...

It's Looking Like FSGSBASE Support Might Finally Land In Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Earlier this year, Red Hat announced the creation of a cloud-based onboarding service and testbed for network functions with Intel, supporting both virtualized network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs). Since making this announcement, the world has changed.