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

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 20:22
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 Graphics Code Seeing More Tiger Lake Action, Power Efficiency Work For Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:46
Intel's graphics driver team continues amassing more changes for Linux 5.8...

GhostBSD 20.04 Released With Fixes, Updated Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 18:35
GhostBSD 20.04 is out as the newest monthly update to this desktop-focused operating system built off the FreeBSD base...

The FSF reveals the tools they use for chat, video, and more

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:01

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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Transparent, open source alternative to Google Analytics

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:01

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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How to connect a Raspberry Pi to a serial USB port with Python from the terminal

opensource.com - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 15:00

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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Installation of Manjaro 20.0 (KDE Edition) Desktop

Tecmint - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 13:58
Manjaro 20.0, also codenamed Lysia, was released on April 27th, 2020. This comes only 2 days after the release of the much-awaited Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, codenamed Focal Fossa after the Madagascar Feline creature. Manjaro...

Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 08:00
During the course of April while much of the world was in lockdown, there were plenty of interesting happenings in the Linux/open-source and hardware space to keep enthusiasts interested while social distancing from the release of Linux 5.6 to the releases of Fedora 32 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, among other milestones...

System76 Releases Pop!_OS 20.04

Phoronix - Fri, 05/01/2020 - 06:35
System76 released today Pop!_OS 20.04 as their in-house Linux distribution built off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but with many customizations on top...

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