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Unisoc, the Chinese SoC provider for smartphones that is part of the Tsinghua Unigroup, has published a new open-source DRM display driver that ultimately they are looking to get into the mainline kernel...

Unisoc Looking To Introduce A New DRM Display Driver For Mainline Linux  Phoronix

Devs: Open Source Is Growing Despite Challenges  LinuxInsider.com

Windows Central Podcast 157: Almost Done (Still)  Windows Central

Hex Five Announces General Availability of MultiZone Security for Linux - The First Commercial Enclave for RISC-V processors  Design and Reuse

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  Techradar

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  TechRadar India

Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws  The Register

While we are approaching 2020 and the four year anniversary since the Vulkan 1.0 launch, one aspect that has been a bit disappointing has been the lack of not seeing quicker uptake by various Linux window managers / compositors in at least offering a Vulkan code path. One of the best examples of a Vulkan-powered compositor with that has been the independent ChamferWM...

WireGuard VPN For Linux Is Finally Ready For Launch  Fossbytes

The 2.x series of Python is officially over, but converting code to Python 3 is easier than you think. Over the weekend, I spent an evening converting the frontend code of a 3D renderer (and its corresponding PySide version) to Python 3, and it was surprisingly simple in retrospect, although it seemed relatively hopeless during the refactoring process.

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The FVWM window manager started out as modifications to TWM, back in 1993. After several years of iteration, what emerged is an extremely customizable environment where any behavior, action, or event is configurable. It has support for custom key bindings, mouse gestures, theming, scripting, and much more.

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When you are working with complex distributed systems, you will likely come across the need for concurrent processing. At Mode.net, we deal daily with real-time, fast and resilient software. Building a global private network that dynamically routes packets at the millisecond scale wouldn’t be possible without a highly concurrent system.

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Microsoft Teams for Linux now available in public preview  SiliconANGLE News

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  TechRadar

China to ditch all Windows PCs by 2022 – could this be Linux’s time to shine?  TechRadar

Canonical co-sponsors Windows Subsystem for Linux conference  ZDNet

At Red Hat, part of my job is to ensure that company messages maintain their meaning and effectiveness in my native language—Italian—so that customers in my region can learn not only about our products and services but also about our organizational values.

The work tends to be simple and straightforward. But in an open organization, even the tasks that seem small can present big opportunities for learning about the power of working the open way.

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Calmer waters promised in the data lake through Linux Foundation Delta Lake Project - Open Source Insider  ComputerWeekly.com

Calmer waters promised in the data lake through Linux Foundation Delta Lake Project  ComputerWeekly.com