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Linux Software- a Market Worth Observing Growth: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon  Monroe Scoop

The Yum successor DNF on Fedora and Red Hat Linux distributions (among other select RPM distributions) is soon embarking on its fifth major iteration...

Owncloud is a market-leading online file sharing system that lets you back up and shares your files with ease. If you are not a fan of DropBox or Google Drive, then OwnCloud is a...

Canonical Cancels Physical Windows Subsystem for Linux Event, Now Online-Only  Softpedia News

AMDGPU Trusted Memory Zone Support Could Soon Be Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Going back to last September has been work within Linux's AMDGPU kernel driver on enabling encrypted vRAM support with "Trusted Memory Zone" functionality. Now it's looking like a kernel release in the not too distant future could be enabled this support by default...

Continuing on with our Blender 2.82 benchmarking for this open-source 3D modeling software update that debuted last month with numerous improvements, here are some fresh benchmarks of the CUDA and OptiX back-ends for NVIDIA GPU acceleration...

How to run multiple Linux commands from one line  TechRepublic

How to find out what version of an app is installed on Linux  TechRepublic

Microsoft announces PowerShell 7 is Generally Available for Windows, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

20-Way GPU Gaming Comparison With March 2020 Linux Drivers  Phoronix

Given the continuously evolving state of the open-source Radeon Linux graphics drivers in particular, here are fresh AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming benchmarks with the latest Linux graphics drivers as we begin March 2020. Besides the latest NVIDIA 440.64 Linux driver, on the Radeon side was Mesa 20.1-devel paired with the Linux 5.5.5 kernel and also having the RADV ACO back-end enabled.

Multipass is the software developed by Ubuntu-maker Canonical that is advertised as "a mini-cloud on your workstation" that provides an Ubuntu command-line in "just a click" with native hypervisor support...

The i3-inspired Sway Wayland compositor is seeing work carried out for it to support Adaptive-Sync / Variable Rate Refresh...

For those making use of the GCC 8 compiler series, GCC 8.4 is out with all of the bug fixes collected since GCC 8.3's release in February of last year...

Linspire 8.7 Trying To Lure Windows Users With Switch From KDE To MATE Desktop  Phoronix

Linspire is still kicking in 2020 as the Linux distribution formerly known as "Lindows" more than a decade ago. Linspire 8.7 is out today with a renewed emphasis on trying to get legacy Windows PCs migrated to Linux...

Windows 10 20H1 review: Microsoft boosts Linux and Your Phone, but Cortana slips hard  PCWorld

Reading about technology often can build up your career. I recently shared, on Valentine's Day, how I read (what some would say is) too many books. I used to have a hard copy library that actually consumed two rooms in my house until my husband moved in. He respectfully requested space for, you know, people, and I considered a shift toward digital.

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How to Use the ip Command on Linux  How-To Geek