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4 Best Linux distros with like macOS user interface  H2S Media

Meld is one of my essential tools for working with code and data files. It's a graphical diff tool, so if you've ever used the diff command and struggled to make sense of the output, Meld is here to help.

Here is a brilliant description from the project's website:

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I've written before about what a community manager does, and if you ask ten community managers, you'll get 12 different answers. Mostly, though, you do what the community needs for you to do at any given moment. And a lot of it can be repetitive.

Back when I was a sysadmin, I had a rule: if I had to do something three times, I'd try to automate it. And, of course, these days, with awesome tools like Ansible, there's a whole science to that.

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The Raspberry Pi makes for a useful and inexpensive home server for lots of things. I most often use the Raspberry Pi as a print server to share a laser printer with other devices in our home or as a personal file server to store copies of projects and other data.

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Manjaro Linux To Launch New AMD Ryzen-Powered Linux Gaming Laptop  Fossbytes

Purism Says Its Linux Laptops Aren't Affected by the Latest Intel Vulnerability  Softpedia News

Git 2.26 is out as the newest feature release for this distributed revision control system...

Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?  The Register

VMware's VMWGFX open-source Linux graphics driver stack for interfacing with their virtualization software to offer guest VM 3D acceleration that is in turn handled by the host's drivers will soon be offering OpenGL 4.x support...

VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack  Phoronix

While Ubuntu is based on Debian, for those wondering how the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is looking not only compared to the previous 19.10 and 18.04.4 LTS releases but also Debian 10.3 stable and Debian Testing, here are some benchmark results on an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X system.

Axiomtek CEM521 COM Express module comes with Intel Whiskey Lake-U and supports both Windows 10 and Linux  Notebookcheck.net

For longtime Linux users who were fans of the XMMS audio player in the early 2000's, Audacious 4.0 has been released as the newest version of this XMMS-inspired audio player...

XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit  Phoronix

Linux 5.7 is seeing some infrastructure work to provide better out-of-the-box support for some touchscreens on Linux...

Linux 5.7 Adding Infrastructure To See Better Out-Of-The-Box Touchscreen Support  Phoronix

Mesa 20.1 So Far Contains Two PCI IDs So Far For Intel Xe Graphics Plus 9 Other Tiger Lake IDs  Phoronix

In recent days we have seen Intel refining their list of PCI IDs for the next-gen and highly anticipated "Gen12" graphics within the open-source Linux Mesa 20.1 driver stack...

KDE development is moving full-speed ahead amid the various lock-downs and other happenings around the world stemming from the novel coronavirus. This week saw a lot of interesting improvements for the open-source desktop...

Google Engineers Have Been Working On An AMD SB-TSI Temperature Driver  Phoronix