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In early 2017, I was mentally in a bad spot. It was the perfect storm of stress, the kind that no one asks for, but you deal with the hand you're dealt. Work was piling up to a point where I couldn't process all the things that were expected of me. I was training for spring half-marathons, which should have been stress relief, but I was putting too much pressure on myself to perform at a high level.

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Linux Kernel Live Patching: What It Is and Who Needs It  Infosecurity Magazine

For those that have been looking out for an AMD Linux laptop powered by a Ryzen 4000 series processor, Acer is set to launch a new laptop at least in Germany that could be quite appealing to Linux users...

Acer Is Launching In Germany What Could Be A Great AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Linux Laptop  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, Growth , Trends and increasing demand with Leading key players | Forecasts 2020-2025  News Times

Intel's Linux Driver Sees Async Flipping Patches For Better Performance  Phoronix

Intel's Linux Driver Sees Async Flipping Patches For Better Performance  Phoronix

The latest Intel Linux graphics driver optimization being worked on is asynchronous page-flipping...

Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don't Get Lost in the Maze  LinuxInsider.com

It turns out the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon (PPPD) used for dial-up models, DSL, and other point-to-point network setups on Linux has been bugged for the past seventeen years with a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution at the system level...

Linux PPPD Has A 17 Year Old Vulnerability That Could Lead To Remote Code Execution  Phoronix

Linux PPPD Has A 17 Year Old Vulnerability That Could Lead To Remote Code Execution  Phoronix

For those wondering how the Threadripper 3990X is performing with the upcoming Linux 5.6 kernel, here are benchmarks of a recent development snapshot of Linux 5.6 as well as benchmarking all of the major kernel releases going back to Linux 5.1...

Linux 5.1 To Linux 5.6 Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X  Phoronix

Linux 5.1 To Linux 5.6 Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X  Phoronix

Microsoft releases PowerShell 7 for Windows, macOS and Linux  Help Net Security

Mesa's OpenGL threading "glthread" support has been around for a while but come Mesa 20.1 next quarter will be further improvements to this performance feature...

Git is a Linux command to help you manage versions of your work. It's been ported to BSD, macOS, Windows, and more. It serves as the basis for popular code-hosting services, including open source services like GitLab and NotABug, and even to popular proprietary services. In short, Git has taken software development (and a few other industries) by storm.

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How to Use pushd and popd on Linux  How-To Geek

Agile continues to take the world by the storm. The latest report from the Standish Group Chaos Study presents interesting findings: Projects based on agile principles have significantly higher success rates than traditional projects based on the waterfall methodology.

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