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RISC-V Software Support Adds More Features With Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Collaborating on an open source software project is inherently an online experience. For me, almost all of my interaction has been via email. I'll send someone a patch, and they'll review it and reply to me. Or a user will file a bug, and I'll respond to it via the bug tracker. More commonly, developers in the open source community will discuss ideas via the email list.

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Bashtop is a terminal-based resource monitoring utility in Linux. It’s a nifty command-line tool that intuitively displays statistics for your CPU, memory, running processes, and bandwidth to mention just a few. It ships with

Odyssey Blue J4105 Windows & Linux Mini PC Comes with a 128GB SSD, an Arduino Compatible MCU  CNX Software

Security researchers from Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz are out with their latest findings on CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, namely taking another look at L1TF/Foreshadow. Their findings are bad news not only for Intel but potentially other CPU vendors as well...

Researchers Make More Discoveries Around L1TF/Foreshadow - It's Not Good  Phoronix

The USB and Thunderbolt subsystem changes have already been merged into the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...

USB Cleans Up Its Terminology, Continued USB4 Work For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

USB Cleans Up Its Terminology, Continued USB4 Work For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

Linux in education: ViewSonic donates 300 Raspberry Pi devices to students  BetaNews

Earlier this year at GTC Digital was the announcement of the NVIDIA High Performance Computing Software Development Kit while this week they have finally released this HPC SDK for developers at large...

Microsoft Says You Won’t Be Able to Uninstall Its New Edge Browser  Wccftech

Unlock A Universe Of Programming Jobs By Learning Linux  Futurism

Unlock A Universe Of Programming Jobs By Learning Linux  Futurism

Reader’s Choice: Here’s Pop!_OS running on a Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Linux-driven Home Assistant smart hub starts at $219  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-driven Home Assistant smart hub starts at $219  LinuxGizmos.com

Feature work on Mesa 20.2 is now over with the code having been branched today and Mesa 20.2-RC1 subsequently issued...

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates were sent in today for the Linux 5.9 kernel merge window. There are some big additions particularly with AMD Sienna Cichlid and Navy Flounder landing as Navi 2 parts but also a lot of other changes in tow...

Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9 From Sienna Cichlid To Rocket Lake  Phoronix