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Launched at the start of the year was the Kubuntu Focus as a polished KDE laptop while now it's been succeeded by a second-generation model...

Best Linux course deal: 98% off online training bundle (UK deal)  Mashable

Patches from a Google engineer allow run-time average power limiting (RAPL) support for AMD Zen processors within the Linux PowerCap driver...

AMD RAPL PowerCap Patches Updated For Linux - Now Include Family 19h (Zen 3)  Phoronix

AMD RAPL PowerCap Patches Updated For Linux - Now Include Family 19h (Zen 3)  Phoronix

Early in my career, I felt like I had to be "on" all the time. Even if my boss wasn’t counting my hours, I felt compelled to constantly be engaged with work. If I had some downtime between my tasks, I triple-checked my email. If I had time to read something, I felt like I should read something directly work related. I wouldn’t let myself take a break. It wasn’t just my desire to prove myself that was pushing me, it was anxiety, which I’ve been living with my entire adult life. 

This month marks the five year anniversary since Red Hat acquired Ansible, and since then, much has changed in the IT automation world. IT organizations have always faced continual pressure to support rapid innovation at-scale, but 2020 has been an especially challenging year.

This year has produced many dynamic global challenges that changed the way people work and, especially, interact. Now, we’ve found ourselves more cut off from our friends, family and co-workers than ever before as we reside in an increasingly virtual world.

Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop is here  BetaNews

Announcing the 2nd Generation Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux Laptop  Yahoo Finance

While GIMP 3.0 development drags on, the GIMP 2.10.x stable series continues seeing new and interesting point releases. Out today is GIMP 2.10.22 that now supports the AV1-based AVIF image format for import and export...

Linux Fu: The Linux Android Convergence  Hackaday

At the end of September there were Mesa patches posted for the "Dimgrey Cavefish" at the same time as also posting VanGogh APU support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. The AMDGPU Linux kernel driver support has now been posted for the Dimgrey Cavefish...

AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"  Phoronix

AMDGPU Linux Kernel Driver Support Posted For The "Dimgrey Cavefish"  Phoronix

DXVK 1.7.2 was just released as this popular library for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API primarily for accelerating Windows games on Linux via the likes of Steam Play (Proton) and Wine...

11th Gen COM-HPC modules focus on Functional Safety  LinuxGizmos.com

Complementing yesterday's large GPU compute comparison with the GeForce RTX 3080 across many different workloads, today's article is looking at the Blender 2.90 render performance for this consumer Ampere $699+ graphics card.

Kovair DevOps Achieves Red Hat Linux 8 Certification  PR Web

Ready to move past the tumultuous year that is 2020, Intel's open-source developers responsible for the OpenVINO toolkit today issued version 2021.1 with some big ticket additions...