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With Autonomous Linux, Oracle Keeps Server Apps Running During Patching  Forbes

Google Chrome 78 for Windows, macOS and Linux is Now Available For Download  News18

SwiftShader had traditionally been about OpenGL and Direct3D over CPUs as a fallback while in recent years Google has been focused on making it viable for Vulkan. Recently SwiftShader reached Vulkan 1.1 conformance, but besides being conformant to the standard it's also showing it has some CPU performance potential...

In RHEL and CentOS 8 the networking service is managed by the NetworkManager daemon and it is used to dynamically configure and control network devices and keep connections up and active when they are...

Agile has become the default way of developing software; sometimes, it seems like every organization is doing (or wants to do) agile. But, instead of trying to change their culture to become agile, many companies try to impose frameworks like scrum onto developers, looking for a magic recipe to increase productivity. This has unfortunately created some bad experiences and leads developers to feel like agile is something they would rather avoid. This is a shame because, when it's done correctly, developers and their projects benefit from becoming involved in it.

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My first steps into Linux happened around 2003 or 2004 when I was a student. The experiment lasted an hour or two. Being used to Windows, I was confused and quickly frustrated at having to learn the most basic stuff again.

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If you've ever used a spreadsheet application, then you know that rows can be sorted by the contents of a column. For instance, if you have a list of expenses, you might want to sort them by date or by ascending price or by category, and so on. If you're comfortable using a terminal, you may not want to have to use a big office application just to sort text data. And that's exactly what the sort command is for.

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Leaked Linux Kernel Patch Confirms Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake Chip Heading For Desktop CPUs?  Happy Gamer

The SYCL train continues rolling: besides this single-source high-level C++ target for OpenCL playing a big role at Intel with their forthcoming oneAPI and as part of that also working on SYCL LLVM support for upstream, new SYCL learning courses, and other industry adoption around this Khronos standard, Imagination Technologies is getting behind it in at least one way...

A number of recent laptops have begun appearing that offer support for built-in privacy screens with the press of a button. These privacy screens reduce much of the visible light when viewed at angles to try to block out the screen contents from anyone that may be sitting besides the user. Linux has finally begun seeing this support prepared...

Google Plumbing The Linux Support For Privacy Screens On Intel Laptops  Phoronix

Linux driver code points toward multi-GPU support in Intel's upcoming discrete video cards  TechSpot

Disney streaming service, Disney+, doesn't work on Linux... yet  Notebookcheck.net

Arm unveils two lightweight NPUs for edge AI  LinuxGizmos.com

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7 Get Important Kernel Security Update  Softpedia News

Following the closure of Librem 5 initial "Aspen" batch shipping window and it coming out that the devices were just sent to employees/insiders, Purism has now provided more information on the shipping windows ahead and known issues...

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

Linux driver suggests Intel might be considering multi-GPU support  PC Gamer

The UBports community has released the eleventh over-the-air update to Ubuntu Touch that they continue advancing as the open-source Linux smartphone/tablet stack based currently on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...