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New Intel "Adaptive" P-State Frequency Governor Volleyed For Better GPU-Bound Efficiency  Phoronix

Kaloom™ and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Provide a Unified Solution for Edge Sites  Odessa American

Now under the Linux Foundation, the Fintech Open Source Foundation wants to accelerate software development across financial services  Tearsheet

"I wanted to link to a particular Wikipedia article on my blog, but I found there wasn't one on that topic, so I wrote it myself," says Netha Hussain, 2020 Women in Open Source Academic Award winner. "That's the beauty of open source; anyone can contribute."

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"Growing up, I was a bit of a field marshal," Megan Byrd-Sanicki, 2020 Women in Open Source Community Award winner, says with a smile. "I was always the one pulling classmates together. 'We're going to play a game. Come on, everyone, I'll teach you the rules.' I'd also have an eye to the sidelines, trying to identify who wasn't being included and how I could draw them in."

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One of the many new features coming in Mesa 20.1 is experimental NIR support for the vintage Radeon "R600g" driver. That NIR back-end isn't yet to feature parity but is now one step closer with tesselation support now being available along this code path...

Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability  ZDNet

Con Kolivas is out with his Linux 5.6-ck1 optimization patch-set and version 0.199 of the MuQSS scheduler. This re-base against the Linux 5.6 stable kernel is coming late due to Kolivas leading a team making 3D printed COVID-19 equipment in Australia...

Kolivas Takes Break From Designing COVID-19 Equipment To Release Linux 5.6-ck1 + MuQSS  Phoronix

Covid 19 Analysis on  Linux Software Market Demand with Key Players Analysis Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, D…More  Latest Herald

Endangered users of Windows, macOS and Linux. Critical vulnerability detected in all popular antiviruses  Phone Mantra

Endangered users of Windows, macOS and Linux. Critical vulnerability detected in all popular antiviruses  Phone Mantra

Pop OS 20.04: When You Can Upgrade And The Best New Features  Forbes

Shogun 2 ‘for Windows, macOS and Linux and add it forever to your Steam library  Explica

The Linux Ownership System Demystified  Dignited

Endless OS 3.8.0 Released: A Mobile-Like Streamlined Linux Experience  Fossbytes

Blockchain Technology Market 2020 Updated & COVID 19 Outbreak Impact Analysis | IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Linux Foundation, R3, BTL Group; Chain Inc.; Deloitte  Latest Herald

We're going on a vuln hunt. We're going catch a big one: Researchers find Windows bugs dominate – but fixes are fast  The Register

Computers are both my hobby and my profession. I have about 10 of them scattered around my apartment, all running Linux (including my Macs). Since I enjoy upgrading my computers and my computer skills, when I came across Bash it out by Sylvain Leroux, I jumped on the chance to buy it. I use the command line a lot on Debian Linux, and it seemed like a great opportunity to expand my Bash knowledge.

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Mental resilience is the quality of being able to snap back after a setback, catastrophe, or anything bad that life throws at you. We all need resilience right now. For some of us, it's second nature, while others may be discovering or desiring to find that resilience because of the current COVID-19 crisis and the widespread stay-at-home orders.

Here are some tips for building your mental resilience and some great open source tools that can help.

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