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Brian Behlendorf is perhaps best known for being a co-founder of the Apache Project, which became the Apache Software Foundation. Today, he's the executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation, an organization focused on enterprise-grade, open source, distributed ledgers (better known as blockchains). He also says he "put the first ad banner online and have been apologizing ever since."

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In my series about GNOME Boxes, I explained how Linux users can quickly spin up virtual machines on their desktop without much fuss. Boxes is ideal for creating virtual machines in a pinch when a simple configuration is all you need.

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Many sobering lessons from history emphasize democracy is not a finished product. The Roman Empire ended in a dictatorship, while the feudal Middle Ages delivered the Magna Carta and the Renaissance; despite the American Revolution, slavery continued for many years, while the French Revolution resulted in the restoration of the monarchy. That said, more people are living in democracies around the world today than at any time before, and living standards in democracies continue to improve.

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On September 27th, dozens of indie developers will come together virtually to develop video games using open source software. This date marks the third annual Open Jam, a three-day, 80-hour online game jam dedicated to indie developers building playful games and advancing the world of open source game development.

In preparation for Open Jam 2019, we wanted to share the story of Open Jams past and preview the exciting new things coming this year!

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US-China Trade War: Huawei switches from Windows to Linux  International Business Times UK

Huawei has so far been caught between the US and China in the ongoing trade war. Ever since it was put on the blacklist, there have been repercussions that ...

We all know the feeling of looking for a file and not finding it, even in the trash. The trauma that comes with file and data loss should end thanks to the TestDisk –...

While not quite as exciting as the big performance boost found with SVT-VP9 for AVX2 CPUs a few days ago, Intel's Scalable Video Technology team has released SVT-HEVC 1.4.1 as their newest feature release to this open-source H.265/HEVC video encoder...

Huawei now sells MateBook laptops in China running Linux  SlashGear

Ever since Huawei was put on the US' blacklist, the future of its products has been put into question. The company has more or less bragged about its self.

This shouldn't come as much surprise, but the upcoming Fedora 32 will offer the latest "L.A.M.P." stack components...

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How the Worlds of Linux and Windows Programming Converged  ITPro Today

Once upon a time, the world of developers was split into two halves: One half was composed of Windows developers, who created most of the productivity apps ...

Intel Resurrecting FSGSBASE Support For Linux To Help With Performance  Phoronix

Going on for months had been work by Intel Linux developers on supporting the FSGSBASE instruction for helping Intel CPU performance going back to ...

Going on for months had been work by Intel Linux developers on supporting the FSGSBASE instruction for helping Intel CPU performance going back to Ivybridge where this instruction set extension was first introduced. The FSGSBASE support was queued for the Linux 5.3 kernel but was reverted due to "serious bugs" in the implementation. Intel has now published a revised version of this support...

A Linux Advocate Inside Microsoft Is Pushing For Native Apps — And Trying To Fix The Trust Issue  Forbes

I have made it my personal mission, as much as is possible, to understand why there's a lack of trust and do something about fixing that."

Red Hat developer Matthias Clasen has just announced the release of GNOME 3.34 as this widely anticipated update to the GNOME 3 desktop environment...

GNOME 3.34 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New  Softpedia News

It's coming soon to a GNU/Linux distribution near you.

AMD developers are looking at finally re-enabling the LRU bulk moves functionality in their AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver that has the ability to help with performance...

How to stop, start, and restart Apache on various Linux distributions  TechRepublic

Your business depends on websites to drive customers. If your data center makes use of Linux, chances are your websites are powered by the Apache web ...

Slack launches dark mode for macOS, Windows, and Linux  The Verge

Slack is introducing a new dark mode feature for its desktop apps. It comes months after the same feature was made available on iOS and Android. Now ...

AMD/Intel Benchmarks: Building The Mainline Linux x86_64 Kernel With LLVM Clang  Phoronix

With the upcoming LLVM Clang 9.0 compiler release there is an amazing achievement more than a decade in the making... The mainline Clang compiler can ...