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LibreOffice or FreeOffice? Manjaro Gives You the Right to Choose  It's FOSS

In the upcoming release of Manjaro Linux, users will be able to select between open source LibreOffice and proprietary FreeOffice at the time of installation.

Porting Games To Linux Is A Waste Of Time? This Game Developer Says You're Doing It Wrong  Forbes

"Porting games to Steam on Linux is a waste of time." "The sales we do get on Linux platforms result in an inordinate amount of technical support and refunds.

AMD sent in their initial pull request of feature changes to their AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver to begin queuing in DRM-Next for September's kick off the Linux 5.4 kernel cycle. Notable to this batch of AMDGPU DRM-Next work is a lot of new unreleased GPU support...

AMD Submits Navi 12/14 & Arcturus GPU Support Code For Linux 5.4 Kernel Queue  Phoronix

AMD sent in their initial pull request of feature changes to their AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver to begin queuing in DRM-Next for ...

Linux suffers from memory problem  Fudzilla

Less than 4GB and you are doomed Desktop Linux is particularly brutal when it comes to running on low RAM systems. Those who run low RAM systems are g...

Linux suffers from memory problem  Fudzilla

Less than 4GB and you are doomed Desktop Linux is particularly brutal when it comes to running on low RAM systems. Those who run low RAM systems are g...

More Linux than Windows: El Reg takes Docker Desktop for WSL 2 preview out for a spin  The Register

Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. This peek at Docker Desktop 2 is based ...

More Linux than Windows: El Reg takes Docker Desktop for WSL 2 preview out for a spin  The Register

Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. This peek at Docker Desktop 2 is based ...

Microsoft Teams for Linux Could Soon Be a Real Thing  Softpedia News

Microsoft might launch a Linux version of Microsoft Teams at some point in the future, according to company engineers working on the project. Microsoft Teams ...

Another set of patches was merged on Tuesday for the upcoming Mesa 19.2 to further along its Radeon "Navi" support within the RADV Vulkan driver...

The pushd and popd commands are built-in features of the Bash shell to help you "bookmark" directories for quick navigation between locations on your hard drive. You might already feel that the terminal is an impossibly fast way to navigate your computer; in just a few key presses, you can go anywhere on your hard drive, attached storage, or network share. But that speed can break down when you find yourself going back and forth between directories, or when you get "lost" within your filesystem.

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Corteza is an open source, self-hosted digital work platform for growing an organization's productivity, enabling its relationships, and protecting its work and the privacy of those involved. The project was developed entirely in the public domain by Crust Technology. It has four core features: customer relationship management, a low-code development platform, messaging, and a unified workspace.

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Do you recognize the following scenario? I do, because a manager once stifled my passion and innovation to the point I was anxious to make decisions, take risks, and focus on what's important: "uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it" (Agile Manifesto, 2001).

Developer: "The UX hypothesis failed. Users did not respond well to the new navigation experience, resulting in 80% of users switching back to the classic navigation."

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In Linux and other Unix-like systems, the root account has the highest access rights on the system. It is used specifically for system administration purposes. The root user (sometimes referred to as the superuser)...

NetworkManager 1.20 is now available as the newest feature update for this widely used configuration component for the Linux networking stack...

Landing on Tuesday ahead of this week's Mesa 19.2 feature freeze is an experimental NIR compiler for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides open-source OpenGL driver support for Vivante graphics IP...

Harnessing the power of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics to make smarter business decisions and improve customer experiences?

Sure, that sounds great. It will, however, require that you make some complex technology decisions that work for your unique business needs. 

Microsoft Open-Sources TensorWatch AI Debugging Tool | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Microsoft Research open-sourced TensorWatch, their debugging tool for AI and deep-learning. TensorWatch supports PyTorch as well as TensorFlow eager ...

Sysdig Injects More AI into Container Security | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

At the Black Hat USA conference, Sysdig today announced it has extended the capabilities of Sysdig Secure to include runtime profiling and anomaly detection ...

Microsoft Research open-sourced TensorWatch, their debugging tool for AI and deep-learning. TensorWatch supports PyTorch as well as TensorFlow eager tensors, and allows developers to interactively debug training jobs in real-time via Jupyter notebooks, or build their own custom UIs in Python. (Source: InfoQ)