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Lenovo Has 2 Awesome Surprises For Linux ThinkPad Customers In 2020  Forbes

A new set of kernel patches out this morning are for implementing software boost support within the ACPI CPPC CPUFreq driver...

Software Boosting Patches Volleyed For CPPC CPUFreq Driver (Boost / Turbo Frequency)  Phoronix

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Forecast 2020-2025, Latest Trends and Opportunities  ZZReport

Indian Startup Dhiway Joins The ToIP Global Foundation As Founding Member  IndianWeb2.com

SSL (Secure Socket Layer), and its improved version, TLS (Transport Socket Layer), are security protocols that are used to secure web traffic sent from a client’s web browser to a web server. An SSL...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 | Growth Drivers, Challenges, Trends, Market Dynamics and Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty

Oracle's Anthony Yznaga has sent out a proposal for "PKRAM" as a new means of being able to preserve memory pages of the currently running kernel so that they can be restored after launching a new kernel via kexec...

Linux Needs at Least 10 Years to Replace Windows in China  Softpedia News

Is there anything better than a warmly flickering Linux terminal?

Sure there is: two warmly flickering Linux terminals. In fact, the more, the better.

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FreeBSD is a great operating system, but, by design, it does not come with a desktop environment. Without installing additional software from FreeBSD's ports and packages collection, FreeBSD is a command-line only experience. The screenshot below shows what logging into FreeBSD 12.1 looks like when every one of the "optional system components" is selected during installation.

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Companies create Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) to manage their relationship with the open source ecosystems they depend on. By understanding the company's open source ecosystem, an OSPO is able to maximize the company's return on investment and reduce the risks of consuming, contributing to, and releasing open source software. Additionally, since the company depends on its open source ecosystem, ensuring its health and sustainability shall ensure the company's health, sustainable growth, and evolution.

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Linux-Based PostmarketOS Can Now Run On Over 200 Mobile Devices  Fossbytes

The Lima kernel driver providing reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for aging Arm Mali 4xx graphics processors is finally seeing run-time power management capabilities come Linux 5.8...

Linux's Lima DRM Driver For Arm Mali Finally Seeing Run-Time Power Management  Phoronix

IBM Working On More Linux CPU Power Usage Optimizations For Latency-Sensitive Workloads  Phoronix

IBM engineers have been working on improvements to the Linux kernel's power savings while running latency-sensitive tasks but still delivering comparable performance. Their own numbers for a patched kernel are showing significant power saving benefits as much as ~20%...

Linux Foundation, ToIP Foundation Unite to Tackle Digital Trust  SDxCentral

SBC and box PC run Linux on dual -A72 LS1028A  LinuxGizmos.com

SBC and box PC run Linux on dual -A72 LS1028A  LinuxGizmos.com