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Linux Operating System Market Global Trends, Report Research, Top Key Players, Development, Growth, Share ...  The Midland Weekly

How to install Softmaker FreeOffice on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

An initial round of predominantly AMDGPU kernel driver patches have been called upon for pulling into DRM-Next as new feature work for Linux 5.11...

I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), a tabletop role-playing game in which players take control of mythic heroes to explore imaginary dungeons and fight make-believe dragons. D&D players often like to draw maps on big sheets of butcher's paper, or buy and craft evocative set pieces, so that they can track their progress through the realms with gaming miniatures.

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RansomExx ransomware also encrypts Linux systems  BleepingComputer

This summer, eLife was pleased to launch Executable Research Articles (ERAs) in partnership with Stencila, allowing authors to post computationally reproducible versions of their published papers in the open-access journal.

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Dell is Adding Webcam and Microphone Kill Switches in Linux Kernel  It's FOSS

Dell Linux Laptops To Get Hardware-Level Privacy Protection For Camera And Mic  Fossbytes

Following the news that we were first to report last month on Intel starting open-source public patches for Vulkan ray-tracing in preparation for their forthcoming Xe HPG graphics card, the initial prep work for that Vulkan ray-tracing support has now been merged in time for Mesa 20.3...

Purism Launches 2nd Gen Librem Mini Linux PC with a 10th Gen Intel Core CPU  LXer

Linux Software Market 2020 Demand And Growth Analysis by Top Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Samsung, DELL, Google  TechnoWeekly

While the Sony PlayStation 5 isn't beginning to ship until next week there is now support within the widely-used SDL2 library for its controllers...

Lilbits: Xiaomi’s telescopic smartphone camera, Purism’s Linux phone that’s also a PC  Liliputing

SMARC module runs Linux on RK3399K  LinuxGizmos.com

SMARC module runs Linux on RK3399K  LinuxGizmos.com

Hot Swappable Filesystems, as Smooth as Btrfs  Linux Journal

Not only are AMD Ryzen 5000 series completely dominating in performance but they could soon see open-source Coreboot support as an alternative to the proprietary firmware/BIOS. Project X is an interesting effort around blob-free Coreboot/Oreboot support on AMD Zen...

How to install the Nextcloud Desktop Client v3 on Linux  TechRepublic

Dell enables Linux hardware privacy controls  ZDNet

Linux Fu: Monitor Disks  Hackaday