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Tuxedo Book BA15 is a Linux laptop with Ryzen 5 3500U for $935 and up  Liliputing

A Closer Look At Azure Arc – Microsoft’s Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Platform  Forbes

Switching from MacBook to Chromebook: Is Chrome OS good enough?  Android Police

For those AMD Ryzen laptop users eager to see the Sensor Fusion Hub driver for supporting the different hardware sensors on these AMD Zen laptops, that driver still isn't going to be merged for the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle even after the patches were first published months ago...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Support Is Not Coming With Linux 5.8  Phoronix

While modern AMD EPYC CPUs support Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel more recently has been working on MKTME for similarly offering hardware-backed total memory encryption, an Intel open-source engineer has now proposed a software-based solution for protected memory support for KVM virtualization...

Ardour 6.0 is now available as the latest major release of this high-end yet open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) package that runs across all major platforms...

NVIDIA on Friday released Nsight Graphics 2020.3 as the newest version of their proprietary tool for profiling and debugging Direct3D / Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenVR software...

How to find a file in Linux  TechRadar

TUXEDO Computers has launched their first AMD-powered Linux laptop! The excitement quickly faded though when seeing it's not a Renoir design...

World's First AMD-Only Linux Laptop Officially Announced  Softpedia News

There is a lot of wireless (and wired) networking activity each kernel cycle but for the upcoming Linux 5.8 merge window it looks like there will be particularly a lot for MediaTek drivers...

Many MediaTek Wireless Driver Improvements On Deck For Linux 5.8  Phoronix

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In our last week of preparations before the live event, increasingly disturbing news related to the virus made us realize we could not responsibly hold our usual conference on software freedom in person while protecting the safety of our participants and their communities.

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Software Updater always drops screen to low-res after reboot - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Market News: Linux Software Market Growth, Future, Size, Share And New Trends 2020 to 2025: Google, Twitter, Facebook  Cole of Duty

The first beta of the forthcoming PostgreSQL 13.0 is now available for evaluation. PostgreSQL 13 is coming with many new features with this article serving as a quick look plus some very preliminary benchmarks...

Published back in February were the Linux kernel enablement patches for a new "ComboPHY" driver for supporting the company's forthcoming Gateway SoC. That code is now set to be included in the next kernel cycle, Linux 5.8...

Intel ComboPHY Support Coming With Linux 5.8 For Their Gateway SoC  Phoronix

Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe who oversees the kernel's block layer and is employed by Facebook while working on IO_uring and other storage innovations has recently been working on async buffered reads support...