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One week after the release of the big Linux 5.7 kernel release with its many new features, the first point release is now available and overall it's quite light for being the first point release in a new series...

Linux 5.7.1 Releases As A Benign First Point Release  Phoronix

The RISC-V architecture code in the Linux kernel continues seeing more improvements for running on real hardware and seeing other capabilities introduced...

RISC-V For Linux 5.8 Finishes Bringing Up The Kendryte K210, Adds KGDB Support  Phoronix

The German-based 9elements Cyber Security has ported Coreboot to another newer Intel server motherboard...

As part of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS exclusively using its newer "Subiquity" server installer is a new means of supporting automated installations of the operating system in a server environment...

Following last week's 64-bit ARM architecture updates for Linux 5.8, the Arm SoC/platform changes have now been submitted...

When the cloud was still in its formative years, developers discovered that it was convenient to write applications in small, atomic, minimal Linux images that shared resources with the server they ran on. Technically based on kernel namespaces, these small environment definitions came to be called containers. As containers proliferated, sysadmins quickly realized it was becoming essential to develop a tool that could help them manage not only containers but also the virtualized infrastructure underneath.

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New Arm SoCs Supported By Linux 5.8, Restructuring To Fit Android Kernel Improvements  Phoronix

In his book How to Win, New York Times senior economic correspondent Neil Irwin championed the role of "glue people" in bringing about better alignment, collaboration, and organizational maturity.

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It was just back in late April that the Panfrost Gallium3D driver began rendering with Arm Mali "Bifrost" graphics processors while now it has most of OpenGL ES 2.0 working, some of the desktop OpenGL 2.1 functionality, and is capable of running software like GNOME on Wayland...

Linux 5.8 has merged all of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates and there are a number of notable changes...

PCI Changes For Linux 5.8 Bring Power Savings, AMD Workarounds/Whitelisting  Phoronix

Lenovo ThinkPad and ThinkStation now have Linux certification  MOARGeek

Which Linux Distro Is Best for Privacy? We’ve Done the Research [Guide]  Blokt

Some Fedora spins have already made use of swap on zRAM for serving as a compressed RAM drive while with Fedora Workstation 33 they are looking to make use of zRAM by default...

Trending News: Linux Operating System Market Size, Latest Trends, Growth and Share 2020 to 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Cole of Duty

The SMB3/CIFS updates for the Linux 5.8 kernel from the Samba camp can offer better performance...

It's another busy week in the KDE land from their Wayland session finally supporting middle-click paste to Konsole now able to display image thumbnail previews when hovering over filenames with this KDE terminal emulator...

The COVID-19 pandemic disturbed the work of event organizers everywhere. To slow the spread of this highly contagious virus, conferences that tend to host thousands in person faced a choice: Move entirely online, or cancel altogether. Many open source event organizers chose the latter, but not all of them.

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