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Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp Launches October 2020 on PC, Linux, and Mac  Niche Gamer

Last year NVIDIA announced the Jetson Nano at $99 USD as their lowest-priced ARM SBC board to date focused on inference, robotics, and other GPU-accelerated tasks in a small, low-power form factor. The Jetson Nano at $99 USD is already significantly cheaper than the other numerous Jetson boards over the past several years while now today they are introducing a $59 board.

AMD released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver at the end of September that went seemingly unnoticed. Only today when seeing "20.40" firmware binaries hitting the linux-firmware.git tree was I even aware of this updated packaged AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver focused on enterprise distributions...

Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support  Phoronix

Radeon Software for Linux 20.40 Released With RX 5300 Series Support  Phoronix

Canonical kernel engineer Andrea Righi has sent out an updated patch series implementing opportunistic memory reclaim support as a way of forcing the kernel to attempt to reclaim system memory...

Opportunistic Memory Reclaim Support Proposal Updated For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

How to enable Linux on Chrome OS to install Debian packages  H2S Media

TUXEDO Aura 15 Linux Laptop is Powered by AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Processor  CNX Software

Red Hat Envisions Linux Operating System As More Than ‘Just A Commodity’  Forbes

Windows x64 Binaries Can Now Run On POWER9 Under Linux With Hangover  Phoronix

Windows x86 binaries can now run on POWER9 hardware under Linux with Wine thanks to Hangover...

If you've ever shared a neat computer trick, a complex application, or something in between with a friend, then you've probably uttered the phrase, "Well, it works on my computer." No matter how advanced computers become, there seem to be recurrent problems related to the differences in what any two machines have configured or installed. There are ongoing attempts to solve this, and for Python developers, one of the best ways to prevent it is to use virtual environments.

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Interrupts are an essential part of how modern CPUs work. For example, every time you press a key on the keyboard, the CPU is interrupted so that the PC can read user input from the keyboard. This happens so quickly that you don't notice any change or impairment in user experience.

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The IBM POWER processor architecture is now over 30 years old. Although it arrived in February 1990 with a closed source operating system and closed source applications on top, it gradually embraced open source. I became a POWER user soon after it launched and an open source user and contributor just two years later.

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Presumably with Xe-HP in mind, Intel engineers continue working on adding DMA-BUF support to the Linux kernel's RDMA code...

SSH Key-based authentication (also known as public-key authentication) allows for password-less authentication and it is a more secure and a much better solution than password authentication. One major advantage of SSH password-less login, let

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KeenWrite: An Open Source Text Editor for Data Scientists  It's FOSS

How Red Hat and NVIDIA are collaborating to bring blended technologies, like the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, to help with AI workloads and more.

As an increasing number of applications and related complexity put unprecedented demands on computing infrastructures, our customers are realizing that the future of computing needs to be more heterogeneous in nature; a single technology, no matter how innovative, cannot address all the requirements of modern, let alone future computing.