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Intel P-State With Linux 5.9 Adds Passive Mode With Hardware P-States  Phoronix

This smartphone has physical kill switches for its cameras, microphone, data, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi  Android Police

System76 has been on a spree of interesting hardware launches this year and their next one is a new Bonobo WS ultra high-end laptop...

System76 Preparing Coreboot Laptop With Core i9 10900K, Up To 128GB RAM  Phoronix

Meet the first South African elected to lead Debian Linux  MyBroadband

Following the release yesterday of Wine 5.15, Wine-Staging 5.15 is out this morning and is coming in slightly smaller as a result of the XACT Engine work being upstreamed...

How to change the Computer name in Ubuntu 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

KDE developers remain very busy tacking new features onto Plasma 5.20 and other improvements for polishing their desktop...

How to change Ubuntu Linux name Graphically - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Facebook joins The Linux Foundation at highest level  OrissaPOST

As reported a few days ago the NFS server with Linux 5.9 saw user xattr support finally merged for user-extended attributes as defined by RFC 8276. The NFS client changes have now been sent in for this kernel and include the user xattr support along with other changes...

Intel mOS: Linux variant intended for for high-performance computing  Optocrypto

NFS Client Changes For Linux 5.9 Include User Xattr Support  phoronix.com

While RISC-V is flourishing when it comes to this open-source CPU architecture, the related OpenRISC architecture is still advancing but not seeing as much hardware efforts around it. In any case, the Linux kernel support continues improving for OpenRISC and with Linux 5.9 are more improvements...

OpenRISC Sees Sane TLB Flushing With Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Wine 5.15 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for this program allowing Windows games/applications to generally run quite gracefully on Linux and other platforms...

Wine 5.15 Release Brings Initial Work On XACT Engine Libraries  Phoronix

3 crucial Linux patch management best practices for IT  TechTarget

Wandboard IMX8M-Plus SBC debuts AI-enabled i.MX8M Plus  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel has published a whitepaper on their new TDX "Trust Domain Extensions" technology for better securing virtual machines...