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Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Mesa Development Activity Was Up By ~20% In 2019, Just Under 3 Million Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Fedora 32 is likely to make use of systemd's sysusers.d functionality for packages declaring new system users as part of the package installation process. This change proposal is being led by Red Hat's Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek of their systemd team...

New USB cable kills your Linux laptop if stolen in a public place  ZDNet

Linux Mint 19.3 is here and better than ever  ZDNet

Python 2.7 Reaches End of Life After 20 Years of Development  BleepingComputer

Microphone audio capture arrives in Linux on Chromebooks. Here's how to use it  About Chromebooks

Up to now the most recent Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu Linux has been using Comet Lake processors while now the 10th Generation XPS 13 Developer Edition has been announced with Ice Lake processors...

Dell Finally Rolls Out XPS 13 Developer Edition With Ice Lake, Fingerprint Reader  Phoronix

Building upon Coreboot Icelake support that has been coming together recently is now the initial Intel support for Jasperlake and Tigerlake. Additionally, when it comes to the Icelake support, there is experimental/work-in-progress support for the Icelake-powered Razer Blade Stealth laptop...

Geekbench 5.1 delivers CPU and compute performance improvements on Mac and iOS  9to5Mac

Geekbench 5.1 delivers CPU and compute performance improvements on Mac and iOS  9to5Mac

The first batch for 2020 of DRM-Misc updates have been sent to DRM-Next of the smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers and other core / user-space API changes to our favorite subsystem...

More Improvements Queued For The Smaller DRM Drivers In Linux 5.6  Phoronix

As of New Year's morning, systemd's Git tree was at 1,273,896 lines spread across 3,522 commits built up over 42,700+ commits from around 1,500 different authors...

With last month's release of KDE's Kate 19.12 text editor there was an initial plug-in for Language Server Protocol (LSP) support to better allow language-agnostic support for code syntax highlighting and other features. There were some issues in that initial implementation but with Kate 19.12.1 and beyond will be better support...

7 game-changing moments for open technologies in 2019  Information Age

When Java SE 8 (aka core Java 8) was introduced in 2014, it introduced changes that fundamentally impact programming in it. The changes have two closely linked parts: the stream API and the functional programming constructs. This article uses code examples, from the basics through advanced features, to introduce each part and illustrate the interplay between them.

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Open source isn't just for techies. On your desktop (regardless of your operating system), on your phone, and in your business, open source software can help you become better organized, more productive, more secure, and healthier. Best of all, you don't need to worry about the shackles of proprietary licenses.

Throughout 2019, Opensource.com's team of Correspondents and community of writers have highlighted top-notch open source alternatives to proprietary software. Take a quick look at the best 10 of those articles.

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5 Best Linux Distro for Windows users as alternatives- 2020  H2S Media