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Intel's Linux Media Driver Preparing For 20.1 Release, Game Streaming Optimizations  Phoronix

Last week we saw the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver add SQ Thread Trace support for this hardware block found on AMD GPUs. The SQTT block is used for performance profiling and now the RADV support has been extended to handle GFX10/Navi...

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN  WIRED

OpenBLAS 0.3.8 was released shy of a month ago for this popular Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms implementation while now has been succeeded by OpenBLAS 0.3.9...

SDL 2.0.12 is on the way as the next version of this library commonly used by Linux games to provide a hardware abstraction layer across platforms...

GNU Emacs is a popular text editor designed for programmers of all sorts. Because it was developed on Unix and is widely used on Linux (and shipped with macOS), people sometimes don't realize that it's also available for Microsoft Windows. You don't need to be an experienced or full-time programmer to make use of Emacs, either. You can download and install Emacs with just a few clicks, and this article shows you how.

You can install Windows manually or with a package manager, like Chocolatey.

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How to Add a Directory to Your $PATH in Linux  How-To Geek

Over the eight years since its inception, Ansible has become wildly successful. The core maintainers know that the workload to keep accepting modules has outgrown the model, so there are large changes afoot. If you get time to read only one thing in this edition of Ansible around the web, make it Jeff Geerling's post on collections. Otherwise, there's a tasty selection of articles on complex environments and how to lay out Ansible to service them, SAP HANA, and building RPMs. Enjoy!

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Budgets can be intimidating for beginners. It can feel overwhelming to think about money, much less about how to keep track of it. But it's important to know where your money is coming and going.

In this article, I'll step through a sample budget by explaining the logic behind important money decisions as well as the formulas you need to automate the process. Fortunately, LibreOffice makes it easy for anyone to keep their yearly budget in check, even the math-averse.

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Owncloud is a market-leading, client-server software that offers a cloud platform that allows you to back-up your files in a central location and syncs them on the cloud. It’s an excellent alternative to popular...

Kali Linux evolution: What's next for the open source pentesting Linux distro?  Help Net Security

How to get the newest version of Libre Office on Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

The fourth weekly release candidate of Linux 5.6 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.6-rc4 Kernel Released  Phoronix

Install the latest version of Firefox on your Chromebook with Nano  Chrome Unboxed

KDE developers wrapped up February 2020 with many fixes and improvements throughout their desktop landscape...

Global Linux Operating System Market is said to have a potential scope for growth in the years by 2025- IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  News Times

Planet straps up multi-boot for Cosmo Communicator  ComputerWeekly.com

During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content and news stories for the month...

Linux 5.6, Threadripper 3990X, $199 AMD Laptop Topped Reader Interest In February  Phoronix