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Huawei New MateBook D Series Laptop Lineup Comes With Multiple Configuration Choices Incl. Windows Or Linux OS, AMD or Intel And Discreet NVIDIA Graphics  Appuals

Microsoft Is Bringing Its First Office 365 App to Linux  Beebom

Is your screen (or external monitor) resolution is low? thus making the items on your screen look larger and less clear? Or do you want to simply increase the current maximum resolution or add...

Introduced back in Ubuntu Server 17.10 and improved upon since has been "Subiquity" as a new Ubuntu Server install option rather than their classic installer derived from Debian. But with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, they will be dropping that Debian Installer based option and focusing solely on their modern "Subiquity" server installer option...

The currently-experimental Qt Shader Tools allows for graphics/compute shader conditioning and used by the in-development Qt graphics abstraction layer for supporting Vulkan / Metal / Direct3D / OpenGL APIs...

Twenty years ago this week, enterprise Java was born. The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) launched as version 1.2 on Dec. 12, 1999. It built upon many years of work previously in the enterprise distributed systems arena, such as the common object request broker architecture (CORBA) and distributed computing environment (DCE), and its birth marked the beginning of a technology that would become a powerhouse in the world of enterprise application development.

Microsoft launches Teams for Linux - Software  CRN Australia

Microsoft Groups is the First Workplace App For Linux  Market Research Base

Andes' RISC-V SoC debuts with AI-ready VPU as Microchip opens access to its PolarFire SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Mesa 20.0 due out in Q1'2020 is now the magical release that is set to switch on RadeonSI NIR usage by default in place of the TGSI intermediate representation. What makes this IR switch-over prominent is that OpenGL 4.6 is then enabled by default on this open-source Gallium3D driver supporting Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer...

Chrome 79 is out as Google's last feature update to their web browser for 2019...

Google Releases Chrome 79 for Linux, Windows, and Mac with 51 Security Fixes  Softpedia News

GraphicsFuzz is the project born out of academia a few years ago for fuzzing GPU drivers to find OpenGL / OpenGL ES (WebGL) driver issues. This work was ultimately acquired by Google and then open-sourced just over one year ago. Today marks the release of GraphicsFuzz 1.3...

The latest Linux kernel is headed to Chromebooks in the very near future and that’s a big deal  Chrome Unboxed

Microsoft Teams app for Linux debuts in public preview  GeekWire

Canonical co-sponsors the Windows Subsystem for Linux conference  Mash Viral

Ubuntu 19.10.1 has been released as an unscheduled re-spin of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine for Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 / 4 ARM single-board computers...

Microsoft announces public preview of Microsoft Teams for Linux  TechCrunch

Microsoft Teams for Linux Officially Released, Available to Download Now  Softpedia News