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I usually read eBooks on my phone or with my Kobo eReader. I've never been comfortable reading books on larger screens. However, many people regularly read books on their laptops or desktops. If you are one of them (or think you might be), I'd like to introduce you to three eBook readers for the Linux desktop.

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If you're a software engineer or a manager in the technology sector, creating or updating your resume can be a daunting task. What is most important to consider? How should you handle the formatting, the content, and your objective or summary? What work experience is relevant? How can you make sure automated recruitment tools don't filter out your resume?

As a hiring manager over the last seven years, I have seen a wide range of resumes and CVs; while some have been impressive, many more have been terribly written.

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Editor's note: This article is part of a series on working with mental health conditions. It details the author's personal experiences and is not meant to convey professional medical advice or guidance.

I was speaking with one of my direct reports recently about a discussion we'd had with the broader team earlier in the week. In that discussion I had expressed some frustration that we weren't as far along on a particular project as I thought we needed to be.

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Percepio Introduces Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Embedded Linux  Yahoo Finance

Percepio Introduces Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Embedded Linux  StreetInsider.com

Percepio Introduces Tracealyzer 4.4 With Support for Embedded Linux  Business Wire

Mir 1.7.1 was released on Monday and while a point release it's quite a big one...

At least not another hardware vulnerability, but CVE-2020-2732 appears to stem from unfinished code within the Intel VMX code for the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support...

Intel KVM Virtualization Hit By Vulnerability Over Unfinished Code  Phoronix

The Command Line: Getting started with Linux apps on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Pending GNOME Mutter changes in conjunction with the new PipeWire 0.3 will offer a big improvement in making use of GNOME's screencasting support from Wayland sessions...

Azure Sphere, Microsoft's Linux-Powered IoT Security Service, Launches  Redmond Channel Partner

Seeed's Linux-friendly Gemini Lake SBC starts at $188  LinuxGizmos.com

Seeed's Linux-friendly Gemini Lake SBC starts at $188  LinuxGizmos.com

While GIMP 3.0 remains elusive as the long overdue GTK3 port of this leading open-source image manipulation program, the GIMP 2.10 stable series continues seeing a lot of decent improvements in their subsequent point releases. GIMP 2.10.18 is out today following a botched GIMP 2.10.16 release...

The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020  Phoronix

As it's been a few weeks since last running a Mesa open-source driver comparison on AMD Radeon graphics hardware, here are some fresh Mesa 20.1-devel benchmarks just a few weeks so far after the Mesa 20.0 branching. These latest Mesa 20.1-devel benchmarks were also run a second time when enabling the RADV ACO shader compiler back-end that's been a focus by Valve developers in enhancing the Linux gaming experience. These results are compared to Mesa 19.2.8 as a baseline for the open-source driver support offered out-of-the-box by Ubuntu 19.10.

Planet Computers' clamshell phone can dual-boot Android and Linux  Engadget

Tiny, Linux-powered Sitara module has dev kit with dual GbE  LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny, Linux-powered Sitara module has dev kit with dual GbE  LinuxGizmos.com