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While many don't look upon Oracle's open-source software contributions too eagerly, some new patches out by their team can dramatically benefit Linux kernel boot times and they are working on getting it upstream. The numbers are already very promising and further work is also underway to make the improvement even more tantalizing...

While waiting to see what NVIDIA will be doing on the open-source driver front that has been pushed back, NVIDIA made a surprise open-source announcement today...

In addition to Intel sending in new feature code to DRM-Next, AMD developers on Thursday also sent in their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates for Linux 5.8...

AMDGPU TMZ Support Wired Up For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

EndeavourOS 2020: Possibly the Best Arch Linux Option  TechNewsWorld

Intel's server software team continues working on Cloud-Hypervisor as a Rust-written hypervisor for modern Linux VMs. Cloud-Hypervisor has been picking up a lot of features and out today is another pre-1.0 feature release...

Intel's Cloud Hypervisor 0.7 Adds More Hotplug Capabilities, Musl Libc, SECCOMP Sandbox  Phoronix

Pop!_OS 20.04 Released — Get The Best Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro  Fossbytes

Microsoft! Please, put down the rebrandogun. No one else needs to get hurt... But it's too late for Visual Studio Online  The Register

EndeavourOS 2020: Possibly the Best Arch Linux Option  LinuxInsider.com

Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...

Intel Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...

Linux Mint 20 Reveals New Mint-Y Theme Changes And More Features  Fossbytes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Released with Enhanced Security and Performance  Mobile Tech News

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Released with Enhanced Security and Performance  Mobile Tech News

In times like these, it becomes all the more important to take a closer look at tools like Zoom, Slack, and Facebook Messenger.

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Google Analytics is the most popular website analytics tool. Millions of developers and creators turn to it to collect and analyze their website statistics.

More than 53% of all sites on the web track their visitors using Google Analytics. 84% of sites that do use a known analytics script use Google Analytics.

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Raspberry Pi can be used to interface with the real world from its GPIO, for example, by controlling a stepper motor. You can also use Raspberry Pi to dialog with some devices—like Arduino—by using a serial USB port.

In this guide, I'll show you how to connect your Raspberry Pi to a serial USB port and read its values with Python from the terminal (without a desktop environment). For this purpose, we'll use Pyserial and its terminal tool.

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