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Linux 5.7 continues the trend of the community taking up new drivers being created to support different peripherals under Linux that amount to dealing with quirky/buggy behavior of the hardware...

Linux 5.7 Getting Driver To Deal With More Buggy & Funky Looking Mice  Phoronix

Purism Librem Mini is a tiny Linux desktop  BetaNews

EMBEDDED LINUX ENGINEER IN KIRKLAND, WA AT TABLESAFE | Careers  MarketScale

Linux PC Company System76 Is Pulling An Apple And Designing Its Own Keyboard  Forbes

Particularly for those on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or derivative distributions based on the current long-term support base, moving to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS due out next month will yield some nice improvements particularly for those on newer platforms like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series. Here are some benchmarks at how the Ryzen 9 3900X performance is looking between Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 19.10, and the current Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS A Nice Upgrade For AMD Ryzen Owners From 18.04 LTS  Phoronix

Microsoft's Windows Terminal now has mouse support for Windows Subsystem for Linux  ZDNet

Red Hat Linux Azure VMs: Using LVM to improve disk performance  TechGenix

How to Work with Snap Packages on Linux  How-To Geek

It looks like in the next one or two kernel releases we could see Intel transitioning their CPU frequency scaling governor default from the long-standing powersave to the modern schedutil governor. It's now believed schedutil should be at least as good as powersave...

Intel P-State Driver Preparing To Migrate From "Powersave" To Passive Schedutil Default  Phoronix

A user experimenting with Clear Linux had an opinion to share on their mailing list and referred to it as a "toy" distribution and some of our readers have expressed similar opinions on it. Here is the response by one of the Intel developers central to Clear Linux's development...

Is Clear Linux Just A Toy Distribution By Intel?  Phoronix

Meet The Innovative Linux OS That’s Easier To Use Than Windows 10 and MacOS  Forbes

Meet The Innovative Linux OS That’s Easier To Use Than Windows 10 and MacOS  Forbes

Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" has finally reached beta as a spin of Debian 10 "Buster" created without a dependence on systemd...

ESET expands protection for businesses with Endpoint Antivirus for Linux  Telecompaper

Download Android SDK Platform Tools (2020) - ADB and Fastboot for Windows, Mac & Linux  DigiStatement

IPFire Firewall Using Cryptography To Secure Linux Kernel Against RootKit  Fossbytes