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Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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Wine-Staging 5.0-RC5 is out today as usual, arriving just one day after the upstream Wine 5.0-rc5 release...

While the Flang/f18 compiler is expected to land in the LLVM 10.0 source tree on Monday, another Fortran LLVM front-end continues in development...

For those wanting to run Debian from the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) as the root file-system, that support is emerging...

Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems  Phoronix

Back in October 2018 was a patch series out of Linaro for "thermal pressure" support in the Linux kernel for providing better task placement when CPUs are running hot/overheating to the extent their CPU frequencies are being downclocked/limited. Out this weekend is a revised version of that Linux thermal pressure support...

Linaro Revives "Thermal Pressure" Code For Better Performance When CPUs Running Hot  Phoronix

One of the missing features for those with AMD Ryzen laptops has been the lack of a Sensor Fusion Hub driver that is needed for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscopic sensors for the display and related laptop sensor functionality. This week AMD finally posted patches for a Sensor Fusion Hub Linux driver...

AMD Finally Publishes Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For Linux  Phoronix

A big change merged to the GNU Debugger (GDB) code-base on Friday is support for multi-target debugging support...

Python scripts may be running noticeably faster come the release of Fedora 32 in April...

One of the many devices being pursued by the PINE64 crew is the PineTab open-source ARM 64-bit tablet. Thanks to being another Allwinner A64 product and not using any too bleeding edge tech, the PineTab has patches available to get it running off a mainline Linux kernel...

Huawei Makes The CentOS-Based Linux Distro “OpenEuler” Open-Source  TechQuila

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I'm taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.

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Contributing to open source as a hobby is a great way to dip your toes in the water on a new technology—and maybe even advance your career in the process. IBM software engineer Tara Gu found both of those things to be true when she started contributing to the Kubernetes container engine project in 2018.

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We are likely to see the stable Wine 5.0 release within the next week or two but for now Wine 5.0-RC5 is available for the latest testing...

How to install HomeBank accounting software on Linux  H2S Media

In addition to their AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature updates sent out on Thursday, AMD also sent in a special pull request to DRM-Next on its own of a new feature: DP MST DSC...

AMD Has DP MST DSC Support Ready For The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

AMD Has DP MST DSC Support Ready For The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix