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Volla Phone is a privacy-centered phone with an AOSP-based OS (or Linux)  Liliputing

PinePhone goes on sale for $150 and Ubuntu Touch ports to the Pi  LinuxGizmos.com

You've Come a Long Way, Linux-Baby  LinuxInsider.com

Flatpak 1.5.1 was released today as a new development release for this Linux application sandboxing technology. With Flatpak 1.5.1 it also begins laying the groundwork for a future payments system around Flathub as what's starting off for allowing donation-based software acquisition but could ultimately turn into a paid app store...

Hacker Favourite Kali Linux Swaps Gnome for Xfce, Adds New Tricks  Computer Business Review

AMD's Vulkan driver team has today volleyed their third open-source "AMDVLK" code drop of the quarter. This AMDVLK 2019.Q4.3 driver comes with new extensions as well as Navi 14 enablement...

Split or Merge PDFs with PDFsam Basic, an open source program for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Android, Linux smartphone-computer: Dual-screen Cosmo Communicator is out  ZDNet

Android, Linux smartphone-computer: Dual-screen Cosmo Communicator is out  ZDNet

WireGuard Could Be Mainlined Before Christmas  Phoronix

It's been a wild past few weeks for WireGuard as the secure VPN tunnel destined for the mainline Linux kernel and also supported on all other major platforms. It turns out WireGuard could quite well end up in the Linux 5.5 kernel rather than having to wait until Linux 5.6...

PinePhone Linux smartphone running desktop apps  Geeky Gadgets

Kali Linux 2019.4 Hacking OS Comes With An Undercover Mode  Fossbytes

New Undercover mode lets Kali Linux users pretend to be running Windows  BetaNews

300+ Benchmarks With AMD Threadripper 3960X vs. Intel Core i9 10980XE  Phoronix

Complementing our launch-day Intel Core i9 10980XE and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X/3970X Linux benchmarks, here is much more data now that we've had the additional time for carrying out more tests... For your viewing pleasure this US holiday week are more than 330 benchmarks carried out on both the Core i9 10980XE and Threadripper 3960X in the same configuration while running Ubuntu Linux.

Recently the CentOS Board met for the first time since the recent CentOS 8.0 and CentOS Stream releases. It was an interesting outcome...

While the release of Linux 5.3-ck1 with MuQSS was quite tardy and only arrived a few weeks ago, Con Kolivas has returned to his punctuality in releasing Linux 5.4-ck1 with the updated MuQSS scheduler intended to improve the responsiveness of desktop/mobile class Linux systems...

Linux 5.4-ck1 Kernel Released With MuQSS Patched In  Phoronix

Simon Ser has stepped up again to manage the upcoming release of the Weston 8.0 Wayland reference compositor. No Wayland update itself is planned with nothing real to release at this point, but Weston 8.0 should arrive before the end of January...