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VMware is acquiring Austin, Texas-based Bitfusion in a move to boost its ability to support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads in its core vSphere virtualization platform. Bitfusion last year joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner program. It later linked its FlexDirect platform with VMware and Mellanox for attaching GPUs to any virtual machine (VM) and be part of a common infrastructure resource pool.

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Debian-based deepin 15.11 Linux distribution now available for download  BetaNews

deepin is the most beautiful desktop operating system on the planet, besting both macOS, and Windows. Hell, it is even prettier than all other Linux distributions ...

EvilGnome, A New Backdoor Implant Spies On Linux Users  ISBuzz News

According to this link, https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/linux-gnome-spyware.html, security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that's ...

Neon: A Wannabe Linux Distro For KDE Lovers  LinuxInsider.com

KDE Neon is a bit of an oddball Linux thing. Linuxland has an impressive collection of oddball things. Neon looks and feels much like a Linux distribution, but its ...

Neon: A Wannabe Linux Distro For KDE Lovers  LinuxInsider.com

KDE Neon is a bit of an oddball Linux thing. Linuxland has an impressive collection of oddball things. Neon looks and feels much like a Linux distribution, but its ...

Linux Operating System Market SWOT Analysis by Augmentation from 2019-2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Daily Research Chronicle

The report examines the global Linux Operating System market keeping in mind this the expansion & development, trade chain, import & export data of Linux ...

Oracle Linux 8 Released, Microsoft Offering Free Open-Source Software to Help Secure Voting Machines, Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon Beta Is Out, First Beta of Latte Dock for v0.9 Now Available and Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Reaches End of Life  Linux Journal

News briefs for July 19, 2019. Oracle yesterday announced the release of Oracle Linux 8. New features include Application Streams, a "Dandified Yum", RPM ...

Linux Software Market 2019-2025 Growth & Size by Top Company, Region, Application, Driver, Trends & Forecasts  Boston Life News

Global “Linux Software Market” (2019-2025) research report analyzed the current state in the definitions, classifications, applications, and industry chain ...

EvilGnome Is A Linux Spyware That Records Audio And Steals Your Files  Fossbytes

The Linux malware hides as a Gnome Shell extension and intends to spy on users. No known anti-virus software is currently capable of detecting the malware.

With last week's big DRM pull request for Linux 5.3 that brought Navi support most notably on the AMD side while Intel received HDR display support, continued Icelake/Gen11 work, and more, there weren't any changes to the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver. It was another unfortunate cycle of no major improvements for the Nouveau driver but at least sent out today were a set of new "fixes" for this driver that remains crippled on Maxwell GPUs and newer...

The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3  Phoronix

With last week's big DRM pull request for Linux 5.3 that brought Navi support most notably on the AMD side while Intel received HDR display support, continued ...

Recently, I bought and started using a Tuxedo Book BC1507, a Linux laptop computer. Ten years ago, if someone had told me that, by the end of the decade, I could buy top-quality, "penguin-ready" laptops from companies such as System76, Slimbook, and Tuxedo, I probably would have laughed. Well, now I'm laughing, but with joy!

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HackMD.io is an open source, collaborative Markdown editor. It allows people to share, comment, and collaborate on documents. As open source software, users can choose between using the online platform or installing it as a local service using the upstream project CodiMD.

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Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Indian politicians are missing a huge edutech leap by ignoring Raspberry Pi and Linux  International Business Times, India

Students in India are missing out on the ongoing coding revolution because the political class is not paying enough attention to Raspberry Pi and Linux.

Data in a Flash, Part IV: the Future of Memory Technologies  Linux Journal

I have spent the first three parts of this series describing the evolution and current state of Flash storage. I also described how to configure an NVMe over Fabric ...

Oracle Linux hits 8.0, with a hint of deja vu...  DevClass

Big Red has unleashed Oracle Linux version 8, which could the OS of choice for those using the database giant's cloud or appliances – or who just can't bear to ...

Wayland's Weston compositor for the past year has provided a remoting plug-in for virtual output streaming that was built atop RTP/GStreamer. Now though a new plug-in has landed in the Weston code-base making use of Red Hat's promising PipeWire project...

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat shipped the much anticipated release candidate today for libinput 1.14, the open-source input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland systems...