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Why picking Windows 10 over Mac and Linux could be the best decision you make  Express

Some time ago, I decided to move my computing environment from a Mac Mini PowerPC to a Raspberry Pi Model 2. This article describes my reasons for doing so and how I did it. While it is quite technical in places, if you're considering switching from an existing system to something decidedly lean and mean, there are things that you need to know before making that leap. There are lots of links to click as well, which will lead you to the software and apps that I mention.

Enjoy!

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Centrify extends Microsoft's Red Forest to Linux and UNIX  ITP.net

After being in development for two years, GNOME Shortwave has seen its first stable release shortly after this week's GNOME 3.36 desktop debut...

Back in January "iGPU Leak" was disclosed as CVE-2019-14615 as an information leakage vulnerability affecting Intel's graphics architecture leading to both register and local memory leaks. While Intel "Gen9" graphics were patched right away on the disclosure date and Gen8 Broadwell graphics were already mitigated, Gen7/Gen7.5 graphics took longer... In fact, not until the Linux 5.7 release this spring is there the mitigation for iGPU Leak...

Linux 5.7 To Bring Mitigation For Intel Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell "iGPU Leak"  Phoronix

It's been a while since having news on Redox OS as the Rustlang-written open-source operating system. But it turns out that's been due to Jeremy Soller being busy working on Pkgar as a new package management format for the operating system...

1. Windows 10's built-in Linux kernel will be available to everyone soon  Engadget
2. Why picking Windows 10 over Mac and Linux could be the best decision you make  Express
3. Microsoft Is Making it Easier to Update the Linux Kernel Built Into Windows 10  Tom's Hardware
4. Microsoft Will Update the Linux Kernel in Windows 10 Using Windows Update  Softpedia News
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Windows 10's built-in Linux kernel will be available to everyone soon  Engadget

2 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Canonical And Ubuntu 20.04  Forbes

2 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Canonical And Ubuntu 20.04  Forbes

Yes, you can install Snap packages on Chrome OS, but it’s not great  Chrome Unboxed

Job of the Week: Linux System Administrator at UC Riverside  insideHPC

Over the past year we have seen a steady flow of Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" graphics enablement for the Linux kernel, their first generation also adopting the Xe Graphics branding as part of their discrete GPU initiative. With the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring will be the first release where the Gen12 graphics support is there by default as a sign of stability...

Windows 10 sucks – can Linux save us all?  TechRadar

Hot off yesterday's release of Wine 5.4 with Unicode 13 and text drawing for D3DX9, Wine-Staging 5.4 is now available with more than 850 patches on top of it...

Any regular Phoronix reader should already be quite familiar with SVT-AV1 and the other open-source Scalable Video Technology encoders considering how much we have been benchmarking them -- months before even before they were officially announced. Netflix, which has been working on SVT-AV1 in conjunction with Intel, has an interesting write-up for some weekend reading on the state of this open-source AV1 encoder/decoder...

Microsoft announced in their forthcoming Windows 10 Version 2004 update that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be entering general availability status...

WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004  Phoronix

MEETING VIA ZOOM - West Seattle Linux Users Group (2020-03-14)  West Seattle Blog