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On Thursday, April 23rd, 2020, Canonical Ltd, the makers of Ubuntu Linux distribution officially released the long-awaited Ubuntu 20.04 version code-named “Focal Fossa”, it is an LTS (Long Term Support) version based on Linux...

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Since you’re reading this post, you have likely heard of efforts towards automation, DevOps practices, and/or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) directives. Looking beyond the buzzwords, the underlying core concepts of IaC can help with speed, risk reduction and advanced deployment capabilities in any organization’s technology journey. This post will elaborate on this and provide some insight from Arctiq's real-world experience.

The Linux Foundation Plans a Massive Virtual Open Source Summit  IBL News

Linux Foundation and Intel to train people who are displaced during COVID-19  Times of India

Many likely didn't realize the functionality was still in place, but LibreOffice 7.0 will finally phase out its export support for Adobe Flash (SWF)...

The best anti-malware solutions for Linux  Explica

After it was delayed last week, Fedora 32 will now be released next week...

Ubuntu 20.04 arrives with Linux 5.4 kernel and WireGuard VPN  India Gone Viral

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Hits the stage  Network World

KDE today released its April 2020 Apps Update, what formerly would have been known as KDE Applications 20.04...

Can't read my hard drive in Windows 7 after creating a Linux partition - Backup, Imaging, and Disk Management Software  BleepingComputer

Embedded Linux Conference goes virtual at $50 a pop  LinuxGizmos.com

Ubuntu 20.04 arrives with Linux 5.4 kernel and WireGuard VPN  ZDNet

The latest Firefox Nightly builds have the experimental WebGPU support working in early form. WebGPU is the W3C-backed web standard for modern graphics and compute that is based upon concepts from the likes of Vulkan and Direct3D 12...

WebGPU Support Begins Coming Together In Firefox Nightly Builds  Phoronix

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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After showing yesterday how the performance has changed from Fedora 31 to Fedora 32, you may be wondering about how Fedora 32 -- which is due to be released next week -- stacks up against the brand new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release. Here are the results from dozens of benchmarks and with some areas seeing some clear performance differences.

While the future of Qt as an open-source project isn't too clear for now it's progressing as if all is well. One of the new items being discussed on the Qt 6 front is discussing a possible LLVM Clang based tool to help developers in automatically converting all of their Qt 5 syntax into a Qt 6 compatible manner...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Goes GA  ADT Magazine

Odroid-C4 could be the Odroid you're looking for  LinuxGizmos.com