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AMD To Acquire Xilinx In $35 Billion Stock Deal

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 19:00
Following the rumors earlier this month that AMD was in talks to acquire Xilinx, a deal has been announced this morning...

Linux 5.11 To Bring Early Bits Around DisplayPort 2.0, Orphans The Frame-Buffer Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:52
While Linux 5.10-rc1 was just released two days ago, the first pull request to DRM-Next of various changes was submitted today in beginning to stage material for inclusion with next year's Linux 5.11 kernel release...

The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 18:32
At this week's virtual Embedded Linux Conference was a talk on Monday by Igalia engineer Maksim Sisov as to the state of native Wayland support for the open-source Chromium web browser and in turn Google Chrome...

LibreOffice 7.1 Alpha Is Up For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 15:35
While LibreOffice 7.0 was just released back in August, LibreOffice 7.1 is now in alpha as the first step towards this next open-source office suite release...

How to Install OH-MY-ZSH in Ubuntu 20.04

Tecmint - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 15:19

When working with Unix-based environments our majority of time will be spent on working in a terminal. A good looking terminal will make us feel good and improves our productivity. This is where OH-MY-ZSH

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How to define a product in the open source software supply chain

opensource.com - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 15:01

In the first article in this series, "Is open source a development model, business model, or something else?" I introduced the concept that open source is part of the supply chain for software products. But to truly understand open source as a supply chain, you must have a decent understanding of what a product is.


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Bring old hardware back to life with OpenBSD

opensource.com - Tue, 10/27/2020 - 15:00

Almost everyone has (or knows someone who has) old hardware sitting around gathering dust because they believe that no modern operating system (OS) supports such a relic. I know this is wrong because I am one of those geeks who likes to use every piece of equipment as long as it is possibly functional.


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