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Complementing Amazon's recently launched EPYC 7002 "Rome" CPUs in the EC2 cloud, the "c5a" series has now been extended with the "c5ad" line-up of AMD EPYC Rome processors that now have local NVMe-based solid-state storage directly attached. Initial tests of the Amazon EC2 C5ad instances are promising and indeed offering better value than the comparable Intel Xeon instances.

Want to learn Linux? Grab this $69 e-training bundle  PCWorld

Linux Software Market Coronavirus (COVID-19) Impact: Historical Data Coverage, Expert Analysis & Growth Projections 2020-2026  StartupNG

Android App Basics: How to install Android Studio on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS  XDA Developers

World Linux Operating System Market Driving the Major Growth Drivers, Disruptive Ecosystems, Technologies Analysis – Opportunities & Forecasts to 2023 - Press Release  Digital Journal

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While Raptor Computing Systems has been making fabulous 100% open-source/libre hardware systems based around POWER9 with the likes of their Talos II and Blackbird systems, don't hold your breath on quickly seeing fully-open POWER10 systems even with "OpenPOWER" being trumpeted in recent years and similar for being more open-source friendly than the likes of Intel and AMD...

SiFive today announced OpenFive as their custom silicon business now spun into its own self-contained, autonomous unit...

SiFive Launches OpenFive As Custom Silicon Business Unit For RISC-V, ARM, Other ISAs  Phoronix

Linux Software Market 2020 Forecast Analysis by Covid-19 Impact, Top Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  Good Night, Good Hockey

Red Hat Opens Up the Edge with Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes and Automation Technologies  Business Wire

Customized "Details" with Neofetch in Ubuntu 16.10 or newer versions - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Red Hat's David Airlie has been on quite a spree lately with open-source graphics driver improvements from OpenGL 4 for LLVMpipe to now merging "VALLIUM" for a Vulkan software implementation...

Version 20.08 of Kdenlive has been released, the KDE-aligned open-source non-linear video editor platform that is among the best in the field for open-source, community-driven projects...

After covering the Linux/open-source POWER10 bring-up for a number of months already, IBM has finally announced firm information on their forthcoming POWER10 processors. POWER10 looks promising but these 7nm CPUs will not begin shipping until the second half of next year...

IBM Details 7nm POWER10 CPUs But Not Shipping Until H2'2021  Phoronix

How to make sure data that should be backed up gets backed up  Network World

Global Linux Computer Market 2020 Industry Trends, Forecast 2025 (Covid-19 Impact) Analysis By Top Vendors- Dell Minifree Slimbook System76  The News Brok

Going back many months have been work on making Wine work nicely on 64-bit POWER (POWER9) for ultimately being able to handle Windows programs on IBM POWER/OpenPOWER hardware. The latest Wine work has now been sent out for benefiting this CPU architecture popular with free software purists...

First Official MX Linux 19.2 Featuring KDE Plasma Desktop Released  Fossbytes