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Linux-driven router/gateway unleashes 5G NR  LinuxGizmos.com

news digest: Linux 5.10 released, GrammaTech's DARPA research contract, and ML Kit Entity Extraction - SD Times  SDTimes.com

Back in October Intel announced Iris Xe MAX as discrete graphics for laptops. The overall Linux state for Xe MAX hasn't been too clear and we haven't had any hardware access to this Intel laptop discrete graphics hardware to report our own findings, but their developers have now cleared up the situation. The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics...

Earlier this year work began on preparing SD Express card/host support for Linux and now with the Linux 5.11 kernel that will debut in early 2021 is this preliminary support...

Project Halium for the past several years has allowed various Linux distributions to build atop the likes of libhybris and other abstractions for running on hardware with Android pre-installed. This abstraction layer has been popular from KDE Plasma Mobile to UBports to Sailfish OS while now Plasma Mobile is discontinuing their support...

KDE Plasma Mobile Drops Halium Support In Favor Of Open Devices  Phoronix

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Hackers are abusing a disputed vulnerability to launch attacks on Linux machines  TechRadar

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel the GNU folks have released their "GNU Linux-libre 5.10-gnu" downstream that is the Linux kernel but without support for loading proprietary modules as well as preventing closed-source firmware binaries from being loaded on the system and related steps in the name of free software...

A Mini Browser War in Linux  TechNewsWorld

Assuming Linus Torvalds has no last minute objections, the long-in-development Intel SGX support will be merged into the mainline Linux kernel...

Valve's VKD3D-Proton continues speeding along as their downstream of VKD3D for mapping Direct3D 12 over Vulkan. VKD3D-Proton 2.1 was just released and besides enhancing the GPU-bound performance there are more prominent DX12 games now working with this translation layer...

Linux's Cedrus media driver that provides video decoding on various Allwinner SoCs is finally seeing support added for VP8. But given this addition for Linux 5.11 won't be out as stable until well into 2021 and most of the world has moved onto VP9, it may not be too beneficial at this stage...

1. Linus Torvalds: 'Nothing that looks scary' in important new Linux kernel 5.10  ZDNet
2. Linux 5.10 LTS is now live, packing a wealth of new features  TechRadar
3. Linux 5.10 LTS is here as a significant kernel update  BetaNews
4. linux Kernel 5.10 LTS download install features  Fossbytes
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Linus Torvalds: 'Nothing that looks scary' in important new Linux kernel 5.10  ZDNet

Global Linux Software Market,Top key players : Google,Twitter,Facebook,Amazon,IBM,Oracle ,Novell,RedHat  The Courier

The Best possible alternatives to replace CentOS 8/6 Linux in 2021  H2S Media

Best Server Distributions to Replace CentOS Linux  It's FOSS

How To Install Postman On Linux?  Fossbytes