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Latest News 2020: Linux Operating System Market by Coronavirus-COVID19 Impact Analysis With Top Manufacturers Analysis | Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. | InForGrowth  Eurowire

One of AMD's compiler experts this week sent out a patch wiring up Zen 3 support in the important GNU Binutils collection for Linux systems...

Minisforum EliteMini H31G Windows 10 and Linux PC impressions  BetaNews

Three npm Packages Opened Distant-Entry Shells on Linux and Home windows Programs  Editorials 360

How my Chromebook is getting me through Computer Science college classes  About Chromebooks

It was in October 1995 that Theo de Raadt began the OpenBSD project as a fork of NetBSD 1.0 following his resignation from the NetBSD core development team. Now twenty-five years later OpenBSD 6.8 has been released for marking the 25th anniversary of this popular BSD distribution...

The Linux 5.10 kernel "staging" changes have the usual assortment of changes throughout this area where premature kernel code goes prior to proving itself and meeting kernel coding quality standards...

Linux 5.10 Staging Area Has The Usual Smorgasbord Of Changes  Phoronix

Earlier this year Linux 5.6 brought initial USB4 support by leveraging Intel's existing Thunderbolt kernel support for which the updated USB specification is based. Succeeding kernels have continued maturing this USB4 implementation and that has continued with Linux 5.10...

Linux 5.10 To Play Nicely With The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard  Phoronix

The Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard is an Apple-esque keyboard that will be working nicely on Linux 5.10 when it comes to its extra functionality...

Linux systems that are at risk of compromising the BleedingTooth Bluetooth...  AlKhaleej Today

We've said that open organizations are places where the best ideas win. But what are "the best" ideas, and where do they actually come from? And how do our answers to these questions shape how we reward contribution in an open organization?

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Linux systems at risk of worrying BleedingTooth Bluetooth vulnerability  BetaNews

What is Flatpak in Linux?  It's FOSS

Linux 5.9.1 + 6 Other Stable Kernels Out For Addressing "Bleeding Tooth" Vulnerability  Phoronix

One week past the Linux 5.9 official debut, Linux 5.9.1 is now available. Making this initial point release a bit more noteworthy is including the fixes for the "Bleeding Tooth" Bluetooth vulnerability made public this week...

Back in August was the surprise that Paragon Software is looking to mainline their NTFS read-write driver in the mainline Linux kernel after years of offering it as a commercial driver for those needing reliable support for this Microsoft file-system on Linux. Two months later they are now up to their ninth revision of this driver in their pursuit of mainline inclusion...

New NTFS Linux Driver Spun A Ninth Time, Still Under Review  Phoronix

The Linux 5.10 kernel is bringing support for new MIPS-based Ingenic SoCs...