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While LLVM 9.0 was branched nearly two weeks ago and it was anticipated that the release candidate would immediately follow, only yesterday did 9.0-RC1 materialize...

Microsoft Buys Open Source Data Privacy Company | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a start-up whose software can prevent people from accessing certain high-value data that companies keep. Terms of the deal ...

Linux To Bid Goodbye To Linux Floppy Drives | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Jiří Kosina, the Czech Linux kernel developer in charge of the floppy drive driver, said he no longer had working hardware. "Actual working physical floppy ...

Arduino Selects Auth0 as Standardized Login for Open-Source Ecosystem  Linux.com

Arduino, one of the biggest open-source hardware and software ecosystem, has chosen Auth0 as the identity management platform of choice. With a global ...

Netflix Joins Academy Software Foundation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Netflix has joined the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) and will begin contributing to the OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) project originally created by Pixar, the ...

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 second batch of patches adding in two thousand more lines of Linux kernel driver code were sent out...

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 ...