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Queued today into the block subsystem's "-next" area ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month are some MD RAID enhancements...

Linux 5.10 To See RAID10 DISCARD Improvement - From 259 Seconds To Less Than 1 Second  Phoronix

Bug that broke Linux in Windows 10 update is finally fixed  TechRadar New Zealand

Global Linux Operating System Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2025  The PRNews Portal

Swift System is Now Open Supply and Helps Linux  Editorials 360

FinSpy Spyware for Mac and Linux OS Targets Egyptian Organisations  The Hacker News

Ahead of next month's Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 release and the new OpenBenchmarking.org, the milestone was met this week of having 600 different test profiles (benchmarks) available for automated execution via our open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software...

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Trend By Products And End Users, Forecast Till 2026 | Fortune Business Insights  The Daily Chronicle

KaOS 2020.09 Released: A Lean and Independent KDE Linux Distribution  Fossbytes

Latest Update 2020: Global Linux Software Market by COVID-19 Impact Analysis by Market Research Store  Unica News

For a while now Oracle engineers and others have been working on Trenchboot as a means of secure launch/boot support when paired with the likes of Intel TXT and AMD SKINIT for trusted execution and configuring each piece of the software boot chain for trusted/secure handling. The latest kernel patches have been sent out for review for secure launching of the kernel...

Trenchboot Secure Launch Support For Linux Sees New Patches  Phoronix

Oracle's GraalVM has seen language support well outside of Java/OpenJDK from Ruby to WebAssembly to R and Python. The newest language seeing an experimental implementation built atop GraalVM is PHP...

Lenovo ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs now available with Ubuntu  KitGuru

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Business Opportunities and Leading Brands Analysis –IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Crypto Daily

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Business Opportunities and Leading Brands Analysis –IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Crypto Daily

Following word last week that the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan layer was seeing 50~100% performance gains, more details are now available...

5 Best free software for disk imaging or cloning hard drives  H2S Media

With more kids learning from home this year, it's important to engage them with unique learning opportunities. The classroom looks very different than it did before, and it's going to continue to evolve. So should the lessons we teach.

In the first article in this series, I shared how my students taught me to code. Over the next few weeks, I will be exploring how educators and parents can harness the power of coding to teach kids a wide variety of skills.

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Before getting down to the actual writing part of documenting another one of your open source projects, and even before interviewing the experts, it's a good idea to answer some high-level questions about your new document.

Renowned communication theorist Harold Lasswell wrote in his 1948 article, The Structure and Function of Communication in Society:

[A] convenient way to describe an act of communication is to answer the following questions:

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