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GhostBSD 20.02 installed in addition to Windows, mac os and Linux  Play Crazy Game

Rugged 10.1- and 15.6-inch panel PCs support Ubuntu  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel's lead developer of the ANV Vulkan Linux driver started a discussion last week about adding an API to DMA-BUF for importing/exporting of sync files as part of allowing for explicit synchronization capabilities in better handling of modern APIs from user-space...

DMA-BUF Explicit Sync Improvements Being Discussed To Help Vulkan, Other Modern Users  Phoronix

DH2i DxEnterprise for SDP-Enhanced Microsoft SQL Server Availability Groups (AGs) on Linux Now Available in AWS Marketplace  Yahoo Finance

DH2i DxEnterprise for SDP-Enhanced Microsoft SQL Server Availability Groups (AGs) on Linux Now Available in AWS Marketplace  PRNewswire

Marvell today announced the new OCTEON Fusion processors and a new line in the OCTEON TX2 family...

WireGuard gives Linux a faster and safer VPN  NewsDio

Intel's open-source team working on their media driver for VA-API Linux video acceleration on HD/UHD/Iris Graphics is preparing for its first release of 2020...

Intel's Linux Media Driver Preparing For 20.1 Release, Game Streaming Optimizations  Phoronix

Last week we saw the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver add SQ Thread Trace support for this hardware block found on AMD GPUs. The SQTT block is used for performance profiling and now the RADV support has been extended to handle GFX10/Navi...

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN  WIRED

OpenBLAS 0.3.8 was released shy of a month ago for this popular Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms implementation while now has been succeeded by OpenBLAS 0.3.9...

SDL 2.0.12 is on the way as the next version of this library commonly used by Linux games to provide a hardware abstraction layer across platforms...

GNU Emacs is a popular text editor designed for programmers of all sorts. Because it was developed on Unix and is widely used on Linux (and shipped with macOS), people sometimes don't realize that it's also available for Microsoft Windows. You don't need to be an experienced or full-time programmer to make use of Emacs, either. You can download and install Emacs with just a few clicks, and this article shows you how.

You can install Windows manually or with a package manager, like Chocolatey.

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How to Add a Directory to Your $PATH in Linux  How-To Geek

Over the eight years since its inception, Ansible has become wildly successful. The core maintainers know that the workload to keep accepting modules has outgrown the model, so there are large changes afoot. If you get time to read only one thing in this edition of Ansible around the web, make it Jeff Geerling's post on collections. Otherwise, there's a tasty selection of articles on complex environments and how to lay out Ansible to service them, SAP HANA, and building RPMs. Enjoy!

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Budgets can be intimidating for beginners. It can feel overwhelming to think about money, much less about how to keep track of it. But it's important to know where your money is coming and going.

In this article, I'll step through a sample budget by explaining the logic behind important money decisions as well as the formulas you need to automate the process. Fortunately, LibreOffice makes it easy for anyone to keep their yearly budget in check, even the math-averse.

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Owncloud is a market-leading, client-server software that offers a cloud platform that allows you to back-up your files in a central location and syncs them on the cloud. It’s an excellent alternative to popular...

Kali Linux evolution: What's next for the open source pentesting Linux distro?  Help Net Security