Open-source News

AMD Announces The Ryzen 3 3100 + Ryzen 3 3300X Processors  Phoronix

AMD has expanded its highly successful Zen 2 family with some new low-end parts...

Red Hat debuts RHEL 8.2 enterprise Linux with intelligent monitoring capabilities  SiliconANGLE News

Red Hat Delivers Force Multiplier for Enterprise IT with Enhanced Intelligent Monitoring, Unveils Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8  StreetInsider.com

Red Hat Delivers Force Multiplier for Enterprise IT with Enhanced Intelligent Monitoring, Unveils Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8  Yahoo Finance

More than a few Phoronix readers have written in over the past few days expressing outrage that Debian GNU/Linux is dropping a number of old hardware drivers...

Debian Dropping A Number Of Old Linux Drivers Is Angering Vintage Hardware Users  Phoronix

The latest Linux kernel security work being pursued by Thomas Gleixner is tightening up access around the kernel's per-CPU TLB state access for the translation lookaside buffer...

TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security  Phoronix

NixOS 20.03 has been released as the newest version of this Linux distribution built atop the Nix package manager...

NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements  Phoronix

NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements  Phoronix

New Kenna Security Research Validates Efficacy of Automated Patching, Provides a Playbook for CISOs  GlobeNewswire

Over 2 billion Google Chrome users warned of security risk on Windows, macOS and Linux  Digit

Wireguard, the next-generation VPN: simple, safe encryption and quick  TechHQ

NixOS 20.03 "Markhor" Released: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Into the Breach gets support for nine more languages, Linux and touch  htxt.africa

People love Markdown text with good reason—it is easy to write, easy to read, easy to edit, and it can be converted to a wide range of other text mark up formats. While Markdown text is very good for content creation and manipulation, it imposes limitations on the options for content display.

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Using Python and some graphing libraries, you can project the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, and also display the total number of deaths for a country (this article uses India as an example) on a given date. Humans sometimes need help interpreting and processing the meaning of data, so this article also demonstrates how to create an animated horizontal bar graph for five countries, showing the variation of cases by date.

Projecting confirmed cases and deaths for India

This is done in three steps.

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Intel Working On Slim Bootloader Integration Improvements For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix