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With systemd 246 releasing soon, it looks like the new out-of-memory daemon will be merged shortly afterwards in allowing sufficient time for testing ahead of systemd 247...

systemd-oomd Looks Like It Will Come Together For systemd 247  Phoronix

Several months have passed since there was any news to report on KDE Frameworks 6 but the coronavirus pandemic as well as Qt uncertainties have not caused KF6 development to slow down for this next-generation set of KDE add-on libraries complementing Qt...

Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'  PC Gamer

Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'  PC Gamer

Microsoft's Project Freta aims to eliminate Linux malware  Windows Central

Global Restaurant POS Software Market 2020 COVID-19 Updated Analysis By Product (DOS System, Linux System, UNIX System, Windows System); By Application (FSR (Full Service Restaurant), QSR (Quick Service Restaurant), Others)  NJ MMA News

Global Linux Software Market 2020 by Services, Platforms, Trends, Company Profiles, Demand Analysis, and Business Opportunities to 2025  Market Research Publicist

This Linux OS Looks Exactly Like Windows 10, Is Bad News for Microsoft  Softpedia News

The Linux Foundation's First-Ever Virtual Open Source Summit  TechNewsWorld

The Linux Foundation's First-Ever Virtual Open Source Summit  LinuxInsider.com

Canonical's Daniel Van Vugt has been engaged in several weeks now in optimizing GNOME for a faster 4K experience particularly when using Intel graphics but many of these optimizations pan out for other GPUs and resolutions too. Over the past week he's been working on yet more optimizations...

The first public beta of the forthcoming Qt Creator 4.13 integrated development environment is available for testing...

Some easy choices for encrypting files on Linux  Network World

Linux Kernel Will Stop Using ‘Master/Slave’, and ‘Blacklist/Whitelist’ in Code  Beebom

A decade ago, I started my first job that required me to use Linux as my laptop's operating system. I was offered a range of variants, including Gentoo, if I was so inclined, but since I had used Ubuntu briefly in the past, I opted for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.

My terminal, Konsole, was themed in Zenburn and had a Bash prompt that looked like this:

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"Let Intel begin to solve real problems, instead of creating magical instructions." Linux creator criticized Intel  Phone Mantra

Everyone likes to set up their workspaces in a specific way; it helps your productivity and makes life easier to have things organized in a way that feels organic and to have an environment that feels good to you. That definitely applies to terminals too; that's probably why there are so many terminal options available.

When starting on a new computer, the very first thing I do is set up my terminal to make it my own.

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Linus Torvalds: I hope Intel's AVX-512 'dies a painful death'  ZDNet

I am an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in a number of different roles—systems administrator, senior Linux administrator, DevOps engineer, automation consultant, and senior scrum master. I started learning Linux on Ubuntu but shifted to CentOS as a sysadmin, and later I moved to Fedora for personal use. But my joy for technology started much earlier than my first Linux distribution, and it came in the form of a movie.

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