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How to get Microsoft Teams app on Linux and Ubuntu  OnMSFT

In this guide, we'll show you how you can get a fully-working (but unofficial) beta version of Microsoft Teams app on Ubuntu Linux.

A Look At Intel's Clear Linux Performance Over The Course Of July  Phoronix

Over the course of July, Intel's rolling-release Clear Linux distribution shifted from Linux 5.1 to the brand new Linux 5.2 kernel, pulled in the latest GCC9 branch ...

Over the course of July, Intel's rolling-release Clear Linux distribution shifted from Linux 5.1 to the brand new Linux 5.2 kernel, pulled in the latest GCC9 branch compiler fixes, updated to Python 3.7.4, rolled out a new OpenJDK build, and had many other package updates and original optimizations applied...

Valve proposes game-friendly changes to the Linux kernel  ZDNet

Valve has long wanted Linux to be a serious gaming platform. It's now taking its efforts into the Linux kernel itself.

Intel today announced 11 new 10th Gen "Icelake" CPUs for 2-in-1s and laptops...

For those wondering what the SMT performance impact is for new Zen 2 processors, here are some tests done using a Ryzen 9 3900X with Ubuntu Linux when testing at the default 12-core / 24-threads and then again when disabling SMT to look at just the twelve physical cores...

Bitcoin Sees Changes on Linux To Improve Security  OBN

While Bitcoin might be an extremely pro-privacy and trustless process, building something like it is quite the opposite and the element of trust is required when ...

He Built A $1 Billion Open Source Company With No Headquarter  Linux.com

GitLab is one of the most innovative tech companies that's disrupting the industry. First and foremost, it's an open-source company that's making Linus Torvald's ...

GitLab is one of the most innovative tech companies that’s disrupting the industry. First and foremost, it’s an open-source company that’s making Linus Torvald’s Git usable for everyone by offering it as a project and commercializing it as a product. But what’s really unique about GitLab is the way it runs the business. It’s a fully remote company with no headquarters. It has employees in 50 different countries and they work when they feel like working, from home.

Up until now the Intel Linux graphics driver hasn't had to worry about supporting multiple devices concurrently since, well, it hasn't been a possibility. But with the first Intel Xe discrete GPU hardware expected to arrive next year, the "i915" kernel driver has begun seeing restructuring work to support multi-GPU setups, or what most commonly will be Intel integrated graphics paired with a discrete Xe GPU...

Releasing on schedule was the GNU C Library 2.30 release. Glibc 2.30 brings with it more optimizations and new features for this all-important part of the GNU toolchain...

GNOME's Sysprof profiler continues on a trajectory of becoming an incredibly versatile component for developers looking to maximize performance and efficiency under this desktop environment. Sysprof already picked up a number of new features for GNOME 3.34 but work is not yet finished...

Linux Software Market is Booming Worldwide | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM  Market News Reports

HTF MI released a new market study on Global Linux Software Market with 100+ market data Tables, Pie Chat, Graphs & Figures spread through Pages and ...

Best Linux Laptop of 2019 Takes on The Competition  SegmentNext

Undoubtedly, one of the best factory-ready Linux laptop models you can buy right now is the Dell XPS 13. It is all the Ubuntu fans are talking about right now, ...

Xfce 4.12 was released in February 2015 while finally getting ready to succeed that is the long talked about Xfce 4.14 that is expected to ship this month...

AMD dominated the Linux hardware conversations and benchmarking in July with their 7/7 launch of their 7nm Ryzen 3000 series "Zen 2" processors and Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" processors. Of the 273 original news articles on Phoronix during July and the 19 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark specials, AMD news and Linux benchmark results tended to dominate many of the top spots...

AMD Dominated The Conversation Among Linux/Open-Source Fans In July  Phoronix

AMD dominated the Linux hardware conversations and benchmarking in July with their 7/7 launch of their 7nm Ryzen 3000 series "Zen 2" processors and ...

A “LAMP” stack is a collection of open-source software that is generally installed together to allow a system to deploy dynamic applications. This term is an acronym which describes the Linux operating system, Apache...

Understanding Linux permissions and how to control which users have access to files is a fundamental skill for systems administration.

This article will cover standard Linux file systems permissions, dig further into special permissions, and wrap up with an explanation of default permissions using umask.

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One of GitHub's superpowers is the ability to magically turn your documentation into a website. If you configure a GitHub Page for your docs/ folder on your AwesomeProject website, you'll end up with yourname.github.io/awesomeproject, showing your documentation, all for free.

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