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Systemd 245 is soon shipping as the first feature update of 2020 and it's another big one...

Oreboot is the effort that has been taking shape over the past year as an open-source focused, Rustlang-based downstream of Coreboot. Oreboot continues advancing in its own right concurrent to the wonderful Coreboot advancements...

Oreboot Continues Advancing For Open-Source, Rust-Based Booting On RISC-V  Phoronix

Shocking Linux Gaming And Multitasking Performance With The AMD Ryzen 3400G  Forbes

How to install Homebrew on Linux or WSL  H2S Media

South Korea Will Start Switching to Linux from this Year  Beebom

The second test release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4 is now available with this latest update focusing on improvements to the result viewer...

South Korea To Replace Windows 7 With Linux-Based Open OS  Fossbytes

Debuginfod is the new ELFUTILS HTTP web server for providing debug information or even source code on-demand to debuggers and related development utilities...

For the past four years, I've been managing my personal finances with GnuCash, and I'm quite satisfied with it. The open source (GPL v3) project has been growing and improving since its initial release in 1998, and the latest version, 3.8, released in December 2019, adds many improvements and bug fixes.

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In my last article in this series, I introduced monitoring with Prometheus, the leading open source metric instrumentation, collection, and storage toolkit. While Prometheus has become the de facto standard for monitoring Kubernetes for many users, there may be reasons why you might choose another approach for metric telemetry.

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It can be frustrating when a mainstream software tool is proprietary. This is a common problem at work. Many companies default to Slack for chat, Adobe Photoshop for creative editing, and Salesforce for customer relationship management. We are faced with this issue at home, too. Our friends and family are likely to use the most popular social media platforms which tend to be closed source. With tax season coming up here in the United States, we are reminded that the go-to home finance software is proprietary. 

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South Korea To Replace Windows 7 With Linux-Based Open OS  Fossbytes

MATE, pronounced as ‘matey’ is a lightweight, simple and intuitive desktop environment that can be installed on most Linux distributions to give that smooth and appealing look. It’s easily customizable and easy on resource...

Not yet mainlined in the Linux kernel but currently queued as part of the x86/cpu changes for next round is the ability for the kernel to detect split locks and either warn the offending applications or kill the processes...

The Linux Kernel Will Be Able To Detect Split-Locks To Then Warn Or Kill Offending Apps  Phoronix

Now promoted out of beta is the Google Chrome 80 web browser...

Fuzzing is an important means of finding unintended/invalid behavior within software and now there exists a fuzzer for providing Spectre-type vulnerabilities...

Intel firmware expert Brian Richardson was at FOSDEM 2020 to talk up UEFI Capsule Update functionality and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for allowing OEMs/ODMs to easily distribute firmware updates to Linux users for application with the Fwupd firmware updating utility...

The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates  Phoronix