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More than 91% of students around the world are impacted by school closures due to COVID-19, and most governments have temporarily closed academic institutions. That's nearly 1.6 billion young people in 188 countries. Also, most of the learning platforms available online today aren't practical, engaging, or interactive, and lack true virtual collaboration.

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Linux On iPhone Will Soon Be Possible; Dual Boot Support Arrives For iOS  Fossbytes

AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review  Phoronix

AMD today is announcing three new EPYC 7002 "Rome" SKUs in the form of the 7F32, 7F52, and 7F72 processors. The AMD 7F52 processors we have been recently testing and offers some impressive performance potential as while it's a 16-core / 32-thread part it offers an impressive 256MB L3 cache (16MB per core). Here are our initial Linux benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7F52 in 1P and 2P configurations up against various AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors.

Troubleshooting Azure Linux VM boot errors due to file system changes  TechGenix

How IBM's New CEO Plans to Beat Microsoft, Amazon & Google in Cloud  Cloud Wars

IBM Z Deepens Data Privacy Capabilities with New Air-Cooled Models and IBM Secure Execution for Linux  DevOps.com

State of the Edge group publishes report, merges with Linux Foundation  DatacenterDynamics

a change to the Linux kernel greatly improves the file transfer speed in FAT  Explica

While the Linux 5.7 merge window just ended on Sunday, with the DRM-Next cutoff for new material coming weeks prior to that, AMD developers working on their AMDGPU DRM kernel driver already have over 200 patches accumulated for the next cycle...

AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

BreadBee is a Tiny Embedded Linux SBC based on MStar MSC313E Camera SoC (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

It's been a while since last having any news to report on GNUstep, the free software re-implementation of the Apple Cocoa / OpenStep frameworks. But GNUstep is alive and well and today several of its components saw new releases -- among the feature work is improving its multi-monitor handling...

Fwupd 1.4 is available today as the latest major update to this open-source, Linux-focused firmware updating solution that ties into the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Fwupd 1.4 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Firmware Updating  Phoronix

4 Weekends Linux & Unix Training in Dalton | April 18, 2020 - May 10, 2020  WFAA.com

There hasn't been much to report on this year for EROFS as the Huawei-developed read-only Linux file-system with Android devices in mind. But out this week is now erofs-utils as an update to the user-space utilities around this file-system...

EROFS-Utils 1.1 Released For This Read-Only Linux File-System  Phoronix

A build system is comprised of the tools and processes used to transition from source code to a running application. This transition also involves changing the code's audience from the software developer to the end user, whether the end user is a colleague in operations or a deployment system.

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Skipper is an open source HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. As its GitHub page states, it's designed to handle large amounts of dynamically configured HTTP route definitions (>600,000 routes) with detailed lookup conditions and flexible augmentation of the request flow with filters. It can be used out of the box or extended with custom lookup, filter logic, and configuration sources.

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