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In past years, I’ve written heavily about the importance of the open hybrid cloud to the present and future of enterprise IT.

Welcome to Red Hat Summit 2020 - our first virtual-only Summit. We are all facing unprecedented global events. From the COVID-19 pandemic and the grim situation facing healthcare systems to the worldwide economic struggles the disease is leaving in its wake, why would we even hold a technology conference, virtual or otherwise?

RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs  Phoronix

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7F32 Performance On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Phoronix

Announced back on 14 April were AMD's newest members of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" family, the 7Fx2 high frequency processors. Back on launch day we posted the AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux benchmarks for that 16-core/32-thread CPU with a staggering 256MB cache and clocking up to 3.9GHz. In this article today are our initial benchmarks of the EPYC 7F32 as the 8-core/16-thread processor yielding a 128MB L3 cache and clock speeds up to 3.9GHz.

Red Hat Releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2  TechDecisions

Can't get Virtualbox to download on Linux Mint. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Micron announced today the "World’s First Open-Source Storage Engine Designed for SSDs and Storage Class Memory"... Or simply put, yet another key-value store database and this time designed for high performance SSDs and persistent memory...

Micron Announces An Open-Source Storage Engine Designed For SSDs, Persistent Memory  Phoronix

Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club  Ars Technica

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

28 antivirus products share nasty flaw that can brick your PC: What you need to know  Tom's Guide

Windows vs. MacOS vs. Chrome OS vs. Ubuntu Linux: Which Operating System Reigns Supreme?  PCMag.com

First impressions of a $200 Linux laptop  Boing Boing

For the past five months there has been a bug report affecting the likes of Pop OS 19.10 and Fedora 31 over the GNOME Shell Calendar server using "20~25% CPU all the time" and "every 2-3 seconds or so there is a CPU usage spike where the calendar processes eat something like 20-25% of the CPU." That is significant on modern CPUs as well as on battery life for laptops while finally the issue has been fixed...

Hackers Mount Zero-Day Attacks on Sophos Firewalls  Threatpost

The Linux Foundation today announced that Sony’s Tim Bird has been elected to its board and that Panasonic’s Hiromi Wada has been re-elected for a two-year term.

Tim has a long and esteemed history working in the Linux and open source community. For more than 28 years, he has supported the developer community as a core Linux developer and maintainer of Sony’s Linux kernel and previously as Chief Technology Officer at Lineo. He was also the founder of the Embedded Linux Conference and the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. He’s also served on the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board, an esteemed council that provides guidance to the Linux Foundation on developer community needs and concerns.

“Sony has contributed to the open source community for many years and recognizes that collaboration accelerates the development of technology and innovation to benefit the whole industry,” said Tim Bird, Linux Foundation board member and principal software engineer at Sony. “The Linux Foundation plays a vital role in coordinating the various parts of the open source ecosystem so that everyone can be more productive. I am very happy to be able to participate at the board level to continue to support and promote open source initiatives for the good of all.”

Hiromi Wada has also been re-elected to the Linux Foundation board. She is co-director of the R&D Division at the Automotive Company of Panasonic and sits on the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) Advisory Board. She has been involved in the development and management of various products based on Linux for more than 20 years, including workstations, mobile devices, and automotive systems. As a senior counselor of open source software systems, she advances Panasonic’s collaboration with the open source community.

“I share the Linux Foundation’s dedication to advancing the technologies that impact all of us,” said Hiromi Wada, co-director of AV and ICT development at AVC Networks Company of Panasonic. “I’m pleased to be able to contribute to this work and to the open source community at the board level. Now more than ever, we have an opportunity to help advance technology for good.”

Both Tim and Hiromi have been elected to these positions by board vote.

The Linux Foundation’s mission is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open collaboration to accelerate technology development and industry adoption. It expands the open collaboration communities it supports with community efforts focused on building open standards, open hardware, and open data. The Linux Foundation is also dedicated to improving diversity in open source communities and working on processes, tools and best practices for security in open development communities.

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While the Open Sound System (OSS) usage hasn't been prevalent on Linux systems in many years, on NetBSD there still is some software making use of the OSS interfaces in not supporting the native NetBSD audio interfaces. Better OSS compatibility via a translation layer is available while ultimately they are working on transitioning more open-source software to support the native interfaces...

NetBSD Working On Better OSS Compatibility / Translation Layer, Encouraging Native API Use  Phoronix