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CopyQ 4.0  Neowin

Following the PLATYPUS discovery last year that CPU energy information could be used for possible side channel attacks, the Intel RAPL counters were not only restricted to root but the "amd_energy" driver for exposing CPU energy information on supported Zen series CPUs was also dialed back to root-only in the name of security. Linux 5.13 is introducing a new mechanism so AMD CPUs will be able to still read the energy counters even if not operating as root...

Linux could run on Apple M1 chips in just a few months  BetaNews

How to Install TeamSpeak Client on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Getting Started With System Logging in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Latest Arch Linux ISO Release Comes with the ArchInstall CLI Guided Installer  LXer

How to upgrade Linux Mint 19.3 (Tricia) to Mint 20.1 (Ulyssa) - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Announced in March by Dynatron was their A38 CPU cooler for AMD Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC processors. This heatsink fan is rated for cooling up to 280 Watt SP3/sTRX4/TR4 processors making it capable of cooling even the newest high-end EPYC "Milan" processors with the EPYC 75F3 and 7763 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks of this cooler with the AMD EPYC 7763 server processor.

Arguably the most interesting RISC-V board announced to date is SiFive's HiFive Unmatched with the FU740 RISC-V SoC that features four U74-MC cores and one S7 embedded core. The HiFive Unmatched also has 16GB of RAM, USB 3.2 Gen 1, one PCI Express x16 slot (operating at x8 speeds), an NVMe slot, and Gigabit Ethernet. The upstream kernel support for the HiFive Unmatched and the FU740 SoC continues...

SiFive FU740 PCIe Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13  Phoronix

You might be able to run Linux natively on Apple M1 Macs as early as June  HT Tech

While EXT4 supports both case-folding for optional case insensitive filenames and does support file-system encryption, at the moment those features are mutually exclusive. But it looks like the upcoming Linux 5.13 kernel will allow casefolding and encryption to be active at the same time...

EXT4 With Linux 5.13 Looks Like It Will Support Casefolding With Encryption Enabled  Phoronix

The headline benefits of open source are widely known and well-articulated. Open source technologies provide enterprise-level scalability, performance, security, and reliability. Trust is there, and it's deserved. But what's less celebrated, other than by die-hard open source adherents, are the inner workings of the everyday community contributions building those macro benefits at the atomic level. For those offering open source technologies, it is the community's constant user-driven testing and hardening that forges those technologies into robust and proven solutions.

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How to install TeX Live on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS- A free typesetting system  H2S Media

The LuxCoreRender open-source physically based rendering (PBR) software is out with its latest major feature release that now offers NVIDIA OptiX/RTX acceleration support alongside the existing CPU, NVIDIA CUDA, and OpenCL rendering paths...

How to Download, Install and Use ExpressVPN on Maui Linux  TechNadu

Fedora Linux Download ISO 64-bit - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It's been another week of fixes and feature work for the KDE desktop as the march continues toward the Plasma 5.22 release this summer...

Global Linux Software Market Key Trends, Growth Demand and Leading Players Anlysis by 2020-2027 – SoccerNurds  SoccerNurds