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Hackers prey on devices running open-source Linux OS  Sify News

Trending News: K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Overview and Forecast Report 2020-2026 – Top players: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS, etc. | InForGrowth  The Daily Chronicle

Rebased atop yesterday's Wine 5.17 upstream release, the experimental/testing blend of Wine is out with a new update that comes in at just under 650 patches compared to the official Wine code-base...

Akademy 2020 took place virtually this week as the annual gathering of KDE developers...

Over a dozen APT actors actively targeting Linux-based systems, servers since 8 years: Kaspersky  Times Now

Over a dozen APT actors actively targeting Linux-based systems, servers since 8 years: Kaspersky  Times Now

The Most Beautiful Deepin Linux Finally Gets Stable Version 20 Release  Fossbytes

Recently, I noticed some unusual activity on my blog. A very old post about how I broke my back while living in London had a lot of hits. Was it yet another case of Internet spammers finding a new target for their lewd advertisements? I finally put two and two together when I read the headlines that British personality Simon Cowell had broken his back in a freak motorcycle accident. Aha.

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September security patch broke Linux WSL subsystem in Windows 10. Microsoft is working on a fix  Phone Mantra

Manjaro 20.1 "Mikah" Released: Get Arch Linux-based OS For Humans  Fossbytes

Wine 5.17 is out this afternoon as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot in the Wine 5.x series leading up to Wine 6.0 in early 2021...

GameMode 1.6 is out as the Linux daemon developed by game porting firm Feral Interactive for setting the CPU frequency scaling governor and other helpers when launching games in an effort to enhance the Linux gaming performance and then returning the system to its prior state after the game has quit...

Feral's GameMode 1.6 Released For Optimizing The Linux Gaming Experience  Phoronix

APT Groups Set Sights on Linux Targets: Inside the ...  Dark Reading

CDRThief malware targets Linux VoIP softwitches to steal call records  HackRead

Schedule posted for virtual Embedded Linux Conference Europe  LinuxGizmos.com

Schedule posted for virtual Embedded Linux Conference Europe  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Fu: Literate Regular Expressions  Hackaday

NVIDIA 24-Way GPU Comparison With Many OpenCL, CUDA Workloads  Phoronix

As part of re-testing all hardware prior to major GPU/driver launches, here is a look at the latest NVIDIA OpenCL/CUDA performance on Linux -- complementing the recent Blender 2.90 benchmarks and the latest NVIDIA vs. AMD Linux gaming performance. In still waiting to find out when we will get any NVIDIA Ampere hardware for Linux testing, I have been having some benchmarking fun and extended this to a 24-way graphics card comparison back to Maxwell in looking at not only the raw GPU compute performance but also the performance-per-Watt / power consumption and GPU thermal values.