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Back in April the folks at Micron announced the "HSE" open-source storage engine optimized for SSDs and persistent memory. Version 1.8 of HSE was released on Friday as the first major update since going public earlier this year...

Micron's HSE Open-Source Storage Engine 1.8 Released  Phoronix

For a while now a Mozilla software project that's been an "unsung hero" has been DeepSpeech as their speech-to-text engine. Sadly, following the recent major layoffs at Mozilla and restructuring along with a shift to focusing more on their profitable activities, DeepSpeech for now has an uncertain future...

Drovorub  Hackaday

FBI Reports On Linux Drovorub Malware  Hackaday

Play GeForce Now in your browser, no Chromebook needed  Chrome Unboxed

One of the early changes queued in the USB area for the Linux 5.10 cycle later this summer is a "reset-raspberrypi" driver set for introduction as another upstream improvement for the current-generation Raspberry Pi 4 single board computer...

Linux 5.10 To Bring Rework To Raspberry Pi 4 USB Firmware Initialization  Phoronix

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2020 – Impact of COVID-19, Future Growth Analysis and Challenges | Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship, Changhong  Bulletin Line

Unity Tech is the latest high profile company joining the Blender Development Fund for assisting this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

How to run Windows 10 programs in a WSL Linux shell  BleepingComputer

How to run Windows 10 programs from a WSL Linux shell  BleepingComputer

Adding to the list of software projects embracing Zstd for its very efficient compression abilities, OpenZFS is now supporting the Facebook-developed Zstandard as its latest file-system compression support...

OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression  Phoronix

Global Linux Software Market (2020-2026) | Latest COVID19 Impact Analysis | Know About Brand Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Bulletin Line

Last year Wine itself added emulation for some CPU instructions now blocked by UMIP, the User-Mode Instruction Prevention functionality found in the latest Intel and AMD processors. Now slated for Linux 5.10 is the emulation/spoofing of two of those instructions by the kernel as another attempt to help a small number of Windows programs relying on those instructions...

Linux 5.10 To Bring SLDT/STR Emulation To Help Some Windows Games On Wine  Phoronix

KDE applications finally have the ability to keeping their window positions preserved when closed and then re-launched...

Armbian 20.08 'Caple' Released: The Most Popular Linux Distro For SBCs  Fossbytes

With all the Linux 5.9 kernel changes you may have noticed no major EXT4 file-system pull request was submitted during the kernel merge window the prior two weeks. Fortunately, the EXT4 work has now been sent out and Linus Torvalds honored the late changes for this widely-used Linux file-system...