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It's been a gripe for many running Linux on low RAM systems especially is that when the Linux desktop is under memory pressure the performance can be quite brutal with the system barely being responsive. The discussion over that behavior has been reignited this week...

For those making use of RHEL7 and not planning to shift to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 anytime soon, RHEL 7.7 is now officially available...

Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 version released  ZDNet

Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7.

Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver as their new OpenGL Linux driver aiming to be the default Mesa driver by year's end continues seeing more performance optimizations now that the fundamentals are in place. The latest optimization is a one line tweak yielding around one percent higher performance across the board...

Why Canonical views the Snap ecosystem as a compelling distribution-agnostic solution  TechRepublic

Canonical's Martin Wimpress addresses Snaps, Flatpak, and other competing standards, and community unease around Canonical's control of the Snap store.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7, it's a bit better than 7.6 - Open Source Insider  ComputerWeekly.com

Red Hat… no, wait, stop there -- not Red Hat the IBM company, actually just Red Hat -- that's how the company is still putting out news stories. We'll start again, ...

System76 Adder WS is a Linux laptop with a 4K OLED display  Liliputing

Linux computer company System76 sells a range of laptops that come with a choice of Ubuntu Linux or the company's own Pop!_OS operating systems.

Version 5.4 of KDE's KDevelop integrated development environment is now available...

PowerPC-based Ai-RIO adds open source OS to available SDK options  Intelligent Aerospace

CHATSWORTH, Calif., – Aitech Defense Systems, Inc. has ported the cost-effective, open source Linux operating system onto its intelligent Ai-RIO remote I/O ...

There hasn't been a new FFmpeg release since last November but that finally changed with FFmpeg 4.2 "Ada" being issued today as the newest major release for this multimedia open-source project...

The GNOME 3.34 beta (v3.33.90) release is now available one day early and also marks the point at which the feature freeze is in effect along with the user-interface changes and no API/ABI breakage...

Linux Mint 19.2 ‘Tina’ Released: A Polished And Free Windows Alternative  Fossbytes

Just recently, the Mint development team released Linux Mint 19.2 Tina. As it's a long term release that'll remain supported until 2023, you don't have to worry ...

Intel decided today to reveal a few new details about their Xeon "Cooper Lake" processors due out in H1'2020...

An interesting summer internship at Google has led to an experimental effort to get Microsoft Windows running via Kexec from Linux. The engineers involved have been implementing enough of the EFI Boot Services to be able to kexec Windows from Linux...

Last week AMD published their RDNA instruction set architecture documentation. That's a bit heavy reading unless you are a driver developer or low-level engine developer, but for those wanting a bit of a higher-level look at AMD's new RDNA graphics architecture, today they uploaded a new slide deck...

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Drives Cloud-Native Flexibility & Boosts Security  TechDecisions
2. Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 version released  ZDNet
3. Red Hat Launches Enterprise Linux 7.7  Light Reading
4. Red Hat Drives Cloud-Native Flexibility, Enhances Operational Security with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7  Yahoo Finance
5. Enterprise Linux for 5G, Edge and Hybrid Cloud  SDxCentral
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Iris v3 offline Linux robot hits Kickstarter  Geeky Gadgets

If you are looking for a secure Linux powered robot you may be interested in the third generation of the Iris personal robot which is this month launched.

Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter  ZDNet

Just viewing --not running-- a malicious .desktop or .directory file inside a file browser can run malicious code on a user's system.

Since Microsoft's first preview release of Windows Terminal earlier this summer it's been entertaining to watch its evolution with the Redmond giant trying to make a first-rate terminal emulator for Windows and one that can appease veteran Linux users...

What's the point: TensorFlow, Istio, glibc, Cloudera Altus Director, and all's well that ends well for Linux floppy driver • DEVCLASS  DevClass

TensorFlow's model optimisation toolkit has been updated, Linux floppy isn't dead, and new versions of Istio, glibc, and Cloudera Altus Director are here.