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XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486  Phoronix

Chrome OS 86 Rolls Out with Linux Support for Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster”  LXer

How Intel's Clear Linux Is Competing Against Late-2020 Linux Distributions  Phoronix

Here is every new feature and improvement we found in Chrome OS 86  Android Police

Google and Intel warn of high-severity Bluetooth security bug in Linux  Ars Technica

How Intel's Clear Linux Is Competing Against Late-2020 Linux Distributions  Phoronix

As it's been a while since running a fresh Linux distribution comparison with Intel's Clear Linux platform and given all the autumn distribution updates inbound, here is a fresh look at the rolling-release Clear Linux up against a snapshot of Ubuntu 20.10, Fedora Workstation 33 Beta, openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200929, Arch-based Endeavour OS, and Debian Testing from the start of October.

If 2020 couldn't get more peculiar, today the SDL2 project mainlined support for the OS/2 operating system...

How to install Rstudio & R-base Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes  ZDNet

Chrome OS 86 adds update button for Debian Linux container  Chrome Unboxed

Mesa 20.2 officially released at the end of September as the Q3'2020 open-source driver stack update providing open-source OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan support for much of the graphics hardware on the market. For those that prefer waiting for the first point release before upgrading, that milestone was reached today...

Different ways to shutdown Ubuntu Linux using command line - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Getting the Most Out of Linux Network Troubleshooting Tools  Medium

Linux Fu: Global Search And Replace With Ripgrep  Hackaday

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Digital Signatures  Linux Journal

The Linux kernel's fundamental printk() function for printing messages at various log levels for then accessing via the likes of dmesg is beginning to see a significant overhaul...

Linux 5.10 Begins Landing The Long Overdue Revamp Of printk()  Phoronix

Linux 5.10 Begins Landing The Long Overdue Revamp Of printk()  Phoronix

Linux 5.9: Not a game-changer, but a good, solid Linux kernel  ZDNet