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As a possible sign that AMD Navi 14 graphics cards could be coming sooner rather than later, support for Navi 14 is slated to be back-ported to the Mesa 19.2 release due out in a few weeks rather that entered its feature freeze earlier this month rather than waiting for next quarter's Mesa 19.3...

Valve's Wine-based Proton for powering Steam Play to run Windows games on Linux is seeing more exciting work in their 4.11 branch...

For those wondering how Google manages the Linux kernel sources they use for shipping on the dozens of different Chromebooks and maintaining the support for the respective cycles, Douglas Anderson of Google presented at last week's Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego on the matter...

A number of months have passed since having anything new to report on the progress of the LLVMpipe software driver, but David Airlie now has landed a number of improvements to this LLVM-leveraging "soft" OpenGL driver for Mesa 19.3...

Drew DeVault released Sway 1.2 overnight as the newest feature update for this popular Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager...

3 Best Windows Alternatives | Most secure & private operating systems  proprivacy.com

Windows is not a secure or private operating system, in fact, it has been target by hackers and malware peddlers for decades. In this guide we list the best ...

Linux Software Market 2019-2025: Industry Scope, Size, Trends, Drivers, Strategies, Applications and Competitive Landscape  Denton Observer

Global “Linux Software Market” report initiates from overview of Industry Chain structure, and describes industry environment, then analyses market size and ...

Ghostwriter is an open source markdown editor with a polished interface  Ghacks Technology News

Ghostwriter is an open source markdown editor for Linux and Windows. It has a beautiful interface, and has Live Preview for HTML code.

Python is one of the most popular programming languages on the planet. It's embraced by developers and makers everywhere. Most Linux and MacOS computers come with a version of Python pre-installed, and now even a few Windows computer vendors are installing Python too.

Maybe you're late to the party, and you want to learn but don't know where to turn. These 12 resources will get you started and well on your way to proficiency with Python.

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It takes many tools to deliver an artifact into production. Tools for building and testing, tools for creating a deployable artifact like a container image, tools for authentication and authorization, tools for maintaining infrastructure, and more. Seamlessly integrating these tools into a workflow can be transformative for an engineering culture, but doing it yourself can be a tall order.

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The biggest events in Linux's history  ZDNet

So you've taken on the challenge of leading your first cross-functional project, one that requires voluntary effort from people across organizational functions to achieve its objective. Congratulations!

But amidst your excitement over the opportunity to prove yourself, you're also feeling anxious about how you're actually going to do it?

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Zabbix is a free, open-source, enterprise-grade, fully-featured, flexible, extensible and distributed monitoring software, which is used to monitor an entire IT infrastructure, services, applications, and server resources. Zabbix is one of the most popular...

How to access files in Windows Subsystem for Linux  Windows Report

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a very useful tool for people who want to run Linux commands on Windows. However, many users encountered several ...

Banana Pi BPI-R64 Linux Router Board Launched for $68  CNX Software

SinoVoIP introduced Banana Pi BPI-R64 router board in the summer of 2018. The Linux router board is powered by MediaTek MT7622 dual-core Cortex-A53 ...

Just prior to yesterday's Linux 5.3-rc6 kernel release, a change was pulled into the code-base that disables the advertising of RdRand support on older AMD CPUs/APUs...

Linux Software Market: Global Macroeconomic Environment Analysis, Outlook, & Forecast 2019-2025  Denton Observer

“Linux Software Market” report provides detailed information on Linux Software markets. The Linux Software industry report covers data on global & Chinese ...

Stemming from recent discussions over Intel's Linux enablement for Intel's Lightning Mountain SoC that characterized it as a "AIRMONT_NP" for a "network processor" even though it's not limited to networking use-cases, and with Intel's proliferation of different CPU cores in general, the Linux kernel is seeing some cleaning up of their different Intel CPU names...

Bookworm is a new ebook reader for Linux  Goodereader

Calibre was originally developed to convert ebooks from one format to another and assist in delivering ebooks to your e-reader. The company has introduced ...

How to use Scrcpy to control Android phone from PC  H2S Media

What is Scrcpy? Scrcpy is an open-source tool that can display and control Android phones on a computer. It supports USB and Wi-Fi connection, as well as ...