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Linux attack protection startup Capsule8 raises $6.5M from Intel Capital  SiliconANGLE News

Linux attack protection startup Capsule8 Inc. today said it has raised $6.5 million in new funding from Intel Capital to drive a range of sales, marketing, product ...

Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions  TWCN Tech News

Missing or untraceable Linux distros can throw up the error - Windows Subsystem For Linux has no Installed Distributions on Windows 10. Follow this post to fix ...

1. Linux to get Teams client? Microsoft says 'stay tuned'  ZDNet
2. Microsoft Teams for Linux Could Soon Be a Real Thing  Softpedia News
3. Microsoft Teams might be coming to Linux  Neowin
4. Microsoft hints that a Linux version of Teams is on the way  The INQUIRER
5. Microsoft Teams is coming to Linux OS  Daily Host News
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Linux to get Teams client? Microsoft says 'stay tuned'  ZDNet

Microsoft may soon deliver one of the most highly demanded improvements for Teams: a Linux client.

We've known for months about Canonical working to ramp up their ZFS On Linux support for Ubuntu 19.10 after initially packaging ZoL for Ubuntu years ago and supporting it in the server space. One of the big changes for Ubuntu 19.10 expected is an experimental ZFS root file-system install option for their desktop GUI installer. That's been confirmed today by Canonical along with some of their related ZoL activities...

The Khronos Group has released the OpenCL 2.2-11 specification to address various issues with the existing OpenCL specification while the next major release as "OpenCL-Next" is likely still a number of months away...

LibreOffice or FreeOffice? Manjaro Gives You the Right to Choose  It's FOSS

In the upcoming release of Manjaro Linux, users will be able to select between open source LibreOffice and proprietary FreeOffice at the time of installation.

Porting Games To Linux Is A Waste Of Time? This Game Developer Says You're Doing It Wrong  Forbes

"Porting games to Steam on Linux is a waste of time." "The sales we do get on Linux platforms result in an inordinate amount of technical support and refunds.

AMD sent in their initial pull request of feature changes to their AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver to begin queuing in DRM-Next for September's kick off the Linux 5.4 kernel cycle. Notable to this batch of AMDGPU DRM-Next work is a lot of new unreleased GPU support...

AMD Submits Navi 12/14 & Arcturus GPU Support Code For Linux 5.4 Kernel Queue  Phoronix

AMD sent in their initial pull request of feature changes to their AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager graphics driver to begin queuing in DRM-Next for ...

Linux suffers from memory problem  Fudzilla

Less than 4GB and you are doomed Desktop Linux is particularly brutal when it comes to running on low RAM systems. Those who run low RAM systems are g...

Linux suffers from memory problem  Fudzilla

Less than 4GB and you are doomed Desktop Linux is particularly brutal when it comes to running on low RAM systems. Those who run low RAM systems are g...

More Linux than Windows: El Reg takes Docker Desktop for WSL 2 preview out for a spin  The Register

Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. This peek at Docker Desktop 2 is based ...

More Linux than Windows: El Reg takes Docker Desktop for WSL 2 preview out for a spin  The Register

Hands On Container wunderkind Docker has released a preview of Docker Desktop for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. This peek at Docker Desktop 2 is based ...

Microsoft Teams for Linux Could Soon Be a Real Thing  Softpedia News

Microsoft might launch a Linux version of Microsoft Teams at some point in the future, according to company engineers working on the project. Microsoft Teams ...

Another set of patches was merged on Tuesday for the upcoming Mesa 19.2 to further along its Radeon "Navi" support within the RADV Vulkan driver...

The pushd and popd commands are built-in features of the Bash shell to help you "bookmark" directories for quick navigation between locations on your hard drive. You might already feel that the terminal is an impossibly fast way to navigate your computer; in just a few key presses, you can go anywhere on your hard drive, attached storage, or network share. But that speed can break down when you find yourself going back and forth between directories, or when you get "lost" within your filesystem.

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Corteza is an open source, self-hosted digital work platform for growing an organization's productivity, enabling its relationships, and protecting its work and the privacy of those involved. The project was developed entirely in the public domain by Crust Technology. It has four core features: customer relationship management, a low-code development platform, messaging, and a unified workspace.

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Do you recognize the following scenario? I do, because a manager once stifled my passion and innovation to the point I was anxious to make decisions, take risks, and focus on what's important: "uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it" (Agile Manifesto, 2001).

Developer: "The UX hypothesis failed. Users did not respond well to the new navigation experience, resulting in 80% of users switching back to the classic navigation."

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In Linux and other Unix-like systems, the root account has the highest access rights on the system. It is used specifically for system administration purposes. The root user (sometimes referred to as the superuser)...