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"How do I make plots in Python?" used to have a simple answer: Matplotlib was the only way. Nowadays, Python is the language of data science, and there's a lot more choice. What should you use?

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Across the globe, businesses are transitioning to remote work. While remote work or "working from home" has been an overall growing trend, the recent push to transition has been driven by the COVID-19 response; organizations are asking staff to work from home to help limit the spread of the Coronavirus.

If you are like many of your peers, you may quite suddenly find yourself working from home. How can you remain productive at home when you're used to going into an office?

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LMDE4: How Much Does Debian Matter?  LinuxInsider.com

Content advisory: this article contains frank discussions of breast cancer.

What's the first question you ask your surgeon when you're discussing reconstruction options after breast cancer?

"How many USB ports can you give me?" is probably not the one that comes to mind for many people!

Although the remark was said jokingly, it sparked a thread that would ultimately become SenseBreast—an early prototype of a sensing mastectomy prosthetic, based on open hardware.

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SUSE's Takashi Iwai who oversees the sound subsystem for the Linux kernel sent in his changes on Thursday that are ready for the 5.7 kernel...

Plenty Of New Sound Hardware Support, Continued Sound Open Firmware Work For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Chrome, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, VSCode Now Unofficially Available For Clear Linux  Phoronix

One of the common criticisms for those trying to use Clear Linux on the desktop is that it lacks easy access to proprietary packages like Google Chrome and Steam. There has been plumbing within its swupd package/bundle management system to support third-party repositories to expand the ecosystem and now we're finally seeing that happen...

Huawei commits to patent nonaggression with the Open Invention Network  SiliconANGLE

Forget the iPhone: PinePhone Linux Phone Running Ubuntu Touch Announced  Softpedia News

While NetBSD 9.0 has been out since mid-February, for those still on the NetBSD 8 series the NetBSD 8.2 milestone is now available with various fixes. As a result of the coronavirus, the NetBSD 7 series is also being extended...

Andy Shevchenko submitted on Tuesday the x86 platform driver updates targeting the Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

Linux 5.7 Seeing Updates For Intel SpeedSelect Technology, Jasper Lake PMC  Phoronix

Scheduling tasks on Linux using the at command  Network World

Rugged, 28.6-inch signage PC supports Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

This $188 single-board x86 computer supports Windows, Linux, and Arduino  Liliputing

Huawei Joins Linux Patent Consortium Open Invention Network  Somag News

WireGuard VPN Gets Added to the Next Linux Kernel  The Mac Observer

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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For the past two months we have been testing the System76 Thelio Major and it's been working out extremely well with performance and reliability. The Thelio Major offering with options for Intel Core X-Series or AMD Ryzen Threadripper and resides between their standard Thelio desktop with Ryzen/Core CPUs and the Thelio Massive that sports dual Intel Xeon CPUs.