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A Microsoft engineer is proposing the Trampoline File Descriptor "TRAMPFD" as a new kernel API for securely dealing with trampoline code on systems. There are concerns already over the potential performance implications but there does seem to be some interest in this approach...

What's Pushing More and More Windows Users to Linux?  Softpedia News

Valve appears to have hired yet another open-source graphics driver developer and will initially be working on the Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

Valve Hires Another Developer To Work On RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver  Phoronix

How to use Pushover to get notifications sent to your Android device from your Linux servers  TechRepublic

Plugable launches affordable USBC-MD103 USB-C Multiport Adapter for Windows 10, macOS, Linux, and iPad Pro  BetaNews

Red Hat has announced the public beta of the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 release...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: how the Business Unit operates: podcast  TechHQ

Along with OpenMandriva working on a rolling-release version of its distribution long ago derived from Mandrake/Mandriva, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 is coming along as the next stable release...

Packaging and deploying .NET Core for Linux - Part 1  Microsoft - Channel 9

The Khronos Group announced this morning that Microsoft and Oculus are the first two companies shipping conformant OpenXR 1.0 implementations...

GNOME OS as the Linux build with bleeding edge GNOME software for testing continues taking shape and a call for testing has been issued...

New Linux malware uses Dogecoin API to find C&C server addresses  ZDNet

Undetectable Linux Malware Targeting Docker Servers With Exposed APIs  Internet

How to Use the fd Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Linux Software Market 2020 Global Insights and Technology Advancement – Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon  Market Research Posts

The latest GNOME performance work being explored is effectively how to make the Intel graphics clock speed ramp up quicker when necessary. Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt is working on a set of patches for enabling triple buffering with Mutter when the GPU starts falling behind and that additional rendering work in turn should ramp up Intel GPUs to their optimal frequency in order to smooth out the performance...

For helping to debug more issues within the Rust-written Redox operating system, the GNU Debugger (GDB) is beginning to work well on the platform...

Hack the planet in style with the new Linux Terminal in Chrome OS 84  Android Police

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Witnessing Enormous Growth by Key Players: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice)  WOLE TV