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PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th  Liliputing

As we mentioned back in December, a Kubuntu-powered laptop is launching with the blessing of Canonical and the Kubuntu Community Council. That laptop, the Kubuntu Focus, will begin shipping at the beginning of February while the pre-orders opened today as well as the embargo lift. We've been testing out the Kubuntu Focus the last several weeks and it's quite a polished KDE laptop experience for those wanting to enjoy KDE Plasma for a portable computing experience without having to tweak the laptop for optimal efficiency or other constraints.

Kubuntu Focus Linux Laptop Is Now Available for Pre-Order, Ships Early February  Softpedia News

Google sets final timeline for killing and replacing Chrome Apps  9to5Google

KAL and Ceska launch first Windows 10 ATM on Linux Hypervisor  Mobile Payments Today

CentOS 8 1911 has been released today as the community rebuild rebased to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 that debuted back in November...

CentOS-8 1911 Released As Rebuild Off Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1  Phoronix

CentOS Linux 8.1 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1  Softpedia News

Linux Founder Linus Torvalds Draws Ire for Criticizing Oracle ZFS  Tom's Hardware

IPFire Linux Firewall Distribution Improves Its Intrusion Prevention System  Softpedia News

This morning's release of Vulkan 1.2 is off to a great start...

RenderDoc 1.6 Released, NVIDIA + AMD + Intel All Primed For Vulkan 1.2  Phoronix

RenderDoc 1.6 Released, NVIDIA + AMD + Intel All Primed For Vulkan 1.2  Phoronix

Oracle Releases VirtualBox 6.1.2 with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 5.5  Softpedia News

Coming up next month already will mark four years since the release of Vulkan 1.0 but for today is an early surprise... Vulkan 1.2! The Khronos Group has prepared Vulkan 1.2 for release as the newest major update to this graphics and compute API. Several vendors also have Vulkan 1.2 support in tow.

Linux Really Shouldn't Expect an Influx of Windows Users Anytime Soon  Softpedia News

Wind River acquires Star Lab to improve its Linux security  ZDNet

Micro Focus Introduces Industry's First Active Directory Bridging Solution that Extends Security Policies and Access Controls to Cloud-based Linux  Yahoo Finance

Get Ready For The Manjaro Linux Laptop Explosion (Including AMD Ryzen Models)  Forbes

Here is another big feature coming for Linux 5.6: the Nouveau driver will have initial accelerated support for NVIDIA "Turing" GPUs! This is coming at long-last with NVIDIA set to release publicly the Turing firmware images needed for hardware initialization...