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AMD's Linux Driver Gets Power Management In Order For Unreleased "Arcturus" GPU  Phoronix

Earlier this month AMD's Linux driver team sent out their initial open-source patches bringing up the "Arcturus" GPU as a new Vega family product. Today a ...

Linux for Chromebooks 101: Getting started with the command line  About Chromebooks

Linux on Chromebooks officially arrived with Chrome OS 69 last year, so the feature has been available on supported devices for six Chrome OS versions now.

Linus Torvalds prepares to wave goodbye to Linux floppy drives  ZDNet

TIme moves on and the venerable, but increasingly rare, floppy drive won't be supported in Linux for much longer.

One More Reason Elementary OS Is Ideal For New Linux Users  Forbes

Introducing new features into any operating system -- whether that's Linux, macOS or Windows -- is a tricky proposition. How do you educate your users about ...

NVIDIA's Unix/Linux graphics driver team has kicked off a new week by introducing the 430.40 long-lived driver release...

Debian Outs First Linux Kernel Security Update for Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster"  Softpedia News

Fixes flaw that lets local users obtain root privileges.

Radeon RX 5700 / RX 5700 XT Linux Gaming Performance With AMDGPU 5.3 + Mesa 19.2-devel  Phoronix

Now that the flow of initial Navi fixes and optimizations has settled down for both the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver and the Mesa RADV/RadeonSI user-space ...

Now that the flow of initial Navi fixes and optimizations has settled down for both the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver and the Mesa RADV/RadeonSI user-space driver components, here is a look at AMD Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT graphics card performance on Ubuntu Linux at the end of July, now three weeks after these 7nm graphics cards first shipped.

OSNEXUS and Pogo Linux Announce New StorageDirector Q-Series Storage Appliance for Multimedia Streaming and Active Archive of Media Content  Yahoo Finance

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OSNEXUS, the leading developer of grid-scale software-defined storage solutions, and Pogo Linux, a leading ...

Linux-based Pinebook Pro has 1080p display, multi-core processing and privacy switches  New Atlas

When shopping for a new laptop, most of us would plump for Windows- or macOS-based systems. Or maybe a low cost, online working Chromebook may suit.

Is This the End of Floppy Disk in Linux? Linus Torvalds Marks Floppy Disks 'Orphaned'  It's FOSS

In a recent commit to the Linux Kernel, Linus Torvalds marked the floppy disk drivers as orphaned. Could this be the beginning of the end of floppy disks in ...

Librem 5 Final Specs: Will This Linux Phone Make You Dump Android & iOS?  Fossbytes

The specifications of the highly anticipated Librem 5 Linux Smartphone have finally been released. The phone is made by a company known as Purism. If you're ...

Purism finalizes specs for the Librem 5 Linux smartphone (shipping in Q3, 2019)  Liliputing

Linux laptop company Purism is getting ready to ship its first Linux smartphone. The Purism Librem 5 was first announced in mid-2017, raised over $1.5 million ...

Purism Reveals Final Hardware Specs of the Privacy-Focused Librem 5 Linux Phone  Softpedia News

Purism, the company behind the powerful Linux-based laptops known as the Librem computers, announced today the final hardware specifications of their ...

It still remains to be seen if Purism will be able to ship the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter as is their current revised target, but at least today they are publishing the finalized specifications for the phone's hardware...

In addition to the release of OpenXR 1.0 for kicking off SIGGRAPH 2019 week, The Khronos Group has released Vulkan 1.1.117 as a fairly notable update to this high-performance graphics API...

Linux Lite 4.6 Enters Development Based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, Here's What's New  Softpedia News

Includes updated components and various refinements.

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" to Launch This Week, Cinnamon 4.2 Coming to LMDE 3 Soon  Softpedia News

Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre announced today that the forthcoming Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" operating system will launch later this week for all ...

Back during the Game Developers Conference was the release of the OpenXR provisional specification by The Khronos Group while today for SIGGRAPH they have formally announced OpenXR 1.0...

Linux Mint 19.2 ‘Tina' is approaching release, final testing underway  Neowin

The next version of Linux Mint is very close to its stable release according to project head, Clement Lefebvre. Two weeks ago, the project released beta ISOs of ...