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Linux computer seller Star Labs now offering laptops with Zorin OS  BetaNews

If you want a computer with a Linux-based operating system pre-installed, you can never go wrong with System76 or Dell. Of course, those two companies are ...

Steam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu  Gizmodo

Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases for its mega-popular Steam video game distribution platform, per Engadget, as the ...

Steam: Support wird für Ubuntu-Distributionen ab 19.10 eingestellt  WinFuture

Ein Vertreter von Valve hat angekündigt, dass die Spiele-Plattform Steam keine Ubuntu-Distributionen ab Version 19.10 mehr unterstützen wird. Diese ...

Week in review: Kali Linux roadmap, runtime container security, new issue of (IN)SECURE  Help Net Security

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Research shows Tesla Model 3 and Model S are vulnerable to GPS.

Following Valve saying they won't be officially supporting Ubuntu 19.10 and Wine developers questioning their Ubuntu 32-bit builds following the announcement this week of not providing new 32-bit packages for new Ubuntu releases, longtime Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Steve Langasek is trying to provide some clarity into the situation...

Chrome OS 76 will disable Crostini Linux backups by default  About Chromebooks

The ability to easy backup and restore the Linux files and data in a Crostini container that arrived in Chrome OS 74 seems to be working well for me. However ...

AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3  Phoronix

On Saturday night AMDGPU/Radeon DRM maintainer Alex Deucher sent in the final batch of feature updates to DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux ...

On Saturday night AMDGPU/Radeon DRM maintainer Alex Deucher sent in the final batch of feature updates to DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...

CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 Get Important Linux Kernel Update to Patch SACK Panic Flaws  LXer

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux operating systems have received new Linux kernel security updates that are marked as important and address ...

It's another busy summer in the KDE space with a nice mixture of bug fixes and features being pursued for KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications...

Fedora 31 will harden up its default configuration by finally disabling password-based OpenSSH root log-ins, matching the upstream default of the past four years and behavior generally enforced by other Linux distributions...

It didn't make it for the Linux 5.2 kernel and now it's up to its 33rd revision on the Linux kernel mailing list... The "lockdown" patches for locking down access to various kernel hardware features has been reworked now and is a Linux Security Module (LSM) as it still tries to get enough endorsements to be mainlined...

Linux Kernel "LOCKDOWN" Ported To Being An LSM, Still Undergoing Review  Phoronix

It didn't make it for the Linux 5.2 kernel and now it's up to its 33rd revision on the Linux kernel mailing list... The "lockdown" patches for locking down access to ...

Slipping just past this week's DragonFlyBSD 5.6 release is now an early feature for the next series: continued work on the Radeon DRM driver ported to this BSD from the Linux kernel...

AMD has lost one of their leading LLVM compiler developers as well as serving as a Vulkan/SPIR-V expert with being involved in those Khronos specifications...

Steam will stop supporting Ubuntu Linux over 32-bit compatibility  Engadget

If you're a Linux gamer who prefers Ubuntu, you might want to look for another distribution in the near future. Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu i...

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.2-rc6 development kernel a day ahead of schedule to better fit around his summer travels...

Debuting two weeks ago was the Mesa 19.1 quarterly feature update while due out early next week is the first bug-fix point release...

Somewhat surprisingly, OpenBSD has added the Vulkan library and ICD loader support as their newest port...

In addition to the recent preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), Microsoft also kept to their word from the Build 2019 conference of issuing their first preview of "Windows Terminal" in June. The first of several preview releases of Windows Terminal is now available from the Microsoft Store...