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We're going on a vuln hunt. We're going catch a big one: Researchers find Windows bugs dominate – but fixes are fast  The Register

Computers are both my hobby and my profession. I have about 10 of them scattered around my apartment, all running Linux (including my Macs). Since I enjoy upgrading my computers and my computer skills, when I came across Bash it out by Sylvain Leroux, I jumped on the chance to buy it. I use the command line a lot on Debian Linux, and it seemed like a great opportunity to expand my Bash knowledge.

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Mental resilience is the quality of being able to snap back after a setback, catastrophe, or anything bad that life throws at you. We all need resilience right now. For some of us, it's second nature, while others may be discovering or desiring to find that resilience because of the current COVID-19 crisis and the widespread stay-at-home orders.

Here are some tips for building your mental resilience and some great open source tools that can help.

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After the merge request was open for more than a half-year, Mesa 20.1 has landed a Vulkan device selection layer for choosing between multiple Vulkan-enabled GPUs on a given system as the default device...

Mesa 20.1 Adds A Vulkan Device Selection Layer For Better Handling Multi-GPU Setups  Phoronix

Canonical finally announced the availability of Ubuntu 20.04, the new release came with many updated packages and programs which is very good for people who are looking for the most updated packages. In this...

Those running the RADV Vulkan driver on AMD APUs could soon find themselves having even better performance in select games...

Each year during Red Hat Summit, we recognize Red Hat Certified Professionals who demonstrate ingenuity, hard work and expertise by making a difference in their organizations. We’re proud to announce that Fabrice Harbulot, cloud engineer and Red Hat Certified Architect Level VII, has been named the 2020 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.

In past years, I’ve written heavily about the importance of the open hybrid cloud to the present and future of enterprise IT.

Welcome to Red Hat Summit 2020 - our first virtual-only Summit. We are all facing unprecedented global events. From the COVID-19 pandemic and the grim situation facing healthcare systems to the worldwide economic struggles the disease is leaving in its wake, why would we even hold a technology conference, virtual or otherwise?

RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs  Phoronix

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7F32 Performance On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Phoronix

Announced back on 14 April were AMD's newest members of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" family, the 7Fx2 high frequency processors. Back on launch day we posted the AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux benchmarks for that 16-core/32-thread CPU with a staggering 256MB cache and clocking up to 3.9GHz. In this article today are our initial benchmarks of the EPYC 7F32 as the 8-core/16-thread processor yielding a 128MB L3 cache and clock speeds up to 3.9GHz.

Red Hat Releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2  TechDecisions

Can't get Virtualbox to download on Linux Mint. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Micron announced today the "World’s First Open-Source Storage Engine Designed for SSDs and Storage Class Memory"... Or simply put, yet another key-value store database and this time designed for high performance SSDs and persistent memory...

Micron Announces An Open-Source Storage Engine Designed For SSDs, Persistent Memory  Phoronix

Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club  Ars Technica

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer