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Unity Tech has released the Unity 2020.1 game engine beta as their first quarterly update of the year...

Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Beta Linux-based operating system now available with GNOME 3.36  BetaNews

While the most prominent addition to today's Vulkan 1.2.135 update is the provisional ray-tracing support, there are also other new extensions with this update...

Can you play Call of Duty: Warzone on Mac and Linux?  Game Revolution

The beta of the highly anticipated Fedora 32 Linux distribution update is now available...

Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop  Phoronix

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension  Phoronix

While Vulkan has had NVIDIA's ray-tracing extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing) extension, coming out today is Vulkan's first formal ray-tracing extension for cross-vendor/driver adoption.

A set of kernel patches to Intel's graphics driver helps improve the GPU power consumption to the extent of on Chrome OS seeing about 45 minutes extra battery life and several percent under the likes of Ubuntu Linux...

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

AMD's EPYC Rome up to 5x Faster on Linux Netfilter With AVX2 Implementation  Tom's Hardware UK

AMD's EPYC Rome up to 5x Faster on Linux Netfilter With AVX2 Implementation  Tom's Hardware

Oracle continues releasing new updates to Solaris 11.4 but there still aren't any public signs of life past v11.4. Out now is Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU19 with one interesting addition...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Global Trend, Segmentation and Opportunities, Forecast 2026  EIN News

For the Fedora 33 release later this year, Red Hat is looking at further enhancing and strengthening the cryptography settings/configuration of the OS...

Floppy Disk Is Not Dead — Linux Kernel Still Adding Improvement Code  Fossbytes

The Twisted Requests (treq) package is an HTTP client built on the popular Twisted library that is used for asynchronous requests. Async libraries offer the ability to do large amounts of network requests in parallel with relatively little CPU impact. This can be useful in HTTP clients that need to make several requests before they have all the information they need. In this article, we'll work through an example of making async calls to explore using treq.

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Grammarly is popular among many teachers, students, business people, and others who need to write or process a lot of words on a regular basis. It's a useful tool, but you're required to register and log in to use it, and I rarely keep website login data in my cache.

I process words pretty often for writing technical and creative pieces, and ducking out of my text editor to open a web browser, much less to visit a site that requires me to log in, is usually too much a bother for me. Fortunately, with a few open source utilities, I can avoid this distraction.

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