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Sigil 1.3.0  Neowin

System76 Reveals An Open Source PC Surprise For AMD Ryzen Fans  Forbes

Making waves just over a year ago in the GNU Compiler Collection community was the "Ranger" project for on-demand range generator that's been worked on for several years at Red Hat. While their goals for GCC 10 didn't pan out, it's looking like in the next few months more of the Ranger infrastructure will land and thus putting it in the window for GCC 11...

Linux on Chromebooks: Here's how to install Linux apps  Android Authority

The Case Against Full-Disk Encryption  LinuxInsider.com

NetBSD Is Making Progress On Benchmarking For Performance/Regression Testing  Phoronix

One of many interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 projects is working on automated benchmarking for NetBSD in order to allow for performance/regression testing of this BSD operating system known for its portability across CPU architectures...

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On Computers: Always at your service - Linux  Worcester Telegram

Linux documentation switches to HTTPS to boost security  Neowin

Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results  Phoronix

Zstd-Compressed Linux Kernel Images Look Very Close To Mainline With Great Results  Phoronix

The work on Zstd'ing the Linux kernel for using this Facebook-developed Zstandard compression algorithm to in turn speed up decompression times when booting Linux kernel images might be mainlined as soon as Linux 5.9...

Linux-based malware analysis toolkit REMnux 7 released  BleepingComputer

MX 16 EOL Notification on Startup - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Started back in 2018 during the Google Summer of Code was work for reporting system power information within the GNOME-Usage utility. While some user-interface elements were fleshed out and other engineering completed, the code isn't yet merged or ready for users as the approach for accomplishing the per-program power reporting is still being devised...

GNOME-Usage Program Still Striving To Report Per-Program Power Analytics  Phoronix

Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle Is Up For A Massive Offer – Avail Discount Now  Wccftech

While Intel's open-source engineers have been working on Tiger Lake enablement for Linux going back roughly a year with many kernel patches spanning the different areas over numerous kernel releases, which aligns with Intel's ongoing cadence of ensuring good Linux hardware support at launch even for consumer hardware, there have been a few stragglers in the Linux bring-up for Tiger Lake...

Intel "Input Output Manager" Linux Driver Coming For Tiger Lake  Phoronix