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Linux Software Market Market- Industry Statistics, Trends, Size, Growth, Share, Demand and Forecast to 2027  Investors Trust

If you work from home, you know how important it is to have a great set of tools that stay out of your way and let you focus on what matters. The harder you work during work hours, the more easily you can relax once the workday is through.

I've been working from home for years, and here are my top picks for the best tools open source has to offer the remote worker.

Jitsi video conferencing

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I've had moments as a software engineer when I'm asked to do a task that sends shivers down my spine. One such moment was when I had to write an interface between some new hardware infrastructure that requires C and a cloud infrastructure, which is primarily Python.

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If there's one word people use to describe Git, it's "powerful." Nobody can deny that Git is indeed a powerful beast, but after months of struggling to do embarrassingly basic things in it, I realized that mere mortals like me were never going to wield that power through a command-line interface.

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Purism launches Librem Mini Linux desktop computer for $699 and up  Liliputing

IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6  Phoronix

IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Since its introduction in Linux 5.1, IO_uring has been coming together quite nicely and getting better with each new kernel release. IO_uring is the effort for delivering faster and more efficient I/O by avoiding excess copies and other efficiency improvements over the existing Linux AIO code. Here are some comparison benchmarks off Linux 5.6 Git...

One of the wonderful things about open source is the large community of writers contributing to our shared knowledge base. Not surprisingly, much of this is written in English; but there is also a well-served demand for open source-related information in other languages.

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Joomla is a popular free and open-source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. Although it’s not as popular as its counterpart WordPress, it’s still used for creating blogs/websites with limited or no web...

Just a few months into 2020 and we are already celebrating our successes over here at Red Hat! In fact, we are pleased to announce that we have been honored with 31 new award wins and honorable mentions. Our latest award roll call includes recognition in categories ranging from Red Hat’s unique workplace culture, our talented individuals who make Red Hat so special, our incredibly talented design and creative teams and the depth and experience of our business portfolio. 

Fedora 33 Plans To Ship With Latest MinGW For Best Experience In Compiling Software For Windows  Phoronix

With new feature work beyond the scope now of Fedora 32, we're beginning to get a better idea for some of the feature plans for Fedora 33 due out this autumn...

Meet the Chinese operating system that’s trying to shift the country off Windows  Abacus

The GrSecurity patches to the Linux kernel have long focused on security enhancements but this year they are said to be taking on a larger focus of performance optimizations...

GrSecurity Linux Kernel To Focus More On Performance This Year  Phoronix

Java 14 has reached general availability today with numerous updates to the JDK...

Meet the Chinese operating system that’s trying to shift the country off Windows  Abacus

Unity Tech has released the Unity 2020.1 game engine beta as their first quarterly update of the year...

Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes  Phoronix