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DragonFlyBSD 5.8 Released For This Popular + Performant BSD Operating System  Phoronix

DragonFlyBSD 5.8.0 release images began propagating tonight as the latest installment of this long ago forked FreeBSD operating system...

IBM last week made the bold announce that they will be transitioning to LLVM/Clang-based compilers across their hardware portfolio for C, C++, and Fortran compilation...

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Linux From Scratch 9.1 Adds Zstandard and Linux 5.5 Support, Many Updates  LXer

Chrome OS 80 rolling out after delay with mouse autorotation, Linux tweaks  9to5Google

Pocket PC Cosmo Communicator Gets Linux Support  Sunriseread

WireGuard gives Linux a faster, more secure VPN  OS News

After hitting 0.9% in January for the Steam on Linux marketshare that was a high for at least the past year, the Linux gaming percentage dropped slightly for February...

Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures  Phoronix

Steam Survey Updated For February 2020 With Latest Linux Figures  Phoronix

NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction  Phoronix

NVIDIA Engineer Shows Off New Linux Patches For Proactive Memory Compaction  Phoronix

Veteran Linux engineer Nitin Gupta of NVIDIA has unveiled his latest patches on the work he got started on last year: proactive memory compaction for Linux motivated by the latency issues brought on by he current on-demand compaction when an application requests a lot of hugepages...

GNOME 3.36 will begin shipping a new application as part of the GNOME Shell to manage desktop extensions...

Watching activity on Linux with watch and tail commands  Network World

Chrome OS 80 improves tablet mode, adds APK sideloading, and updates Linux environment  Android Police

Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard  Phoronix

Following recent discussions about Openwall's Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) and the Whonix spin on LKRG for Debian systems and more, here are some benchmarks showing the performance overhead to this run-time integrity checking of the Linux kernel that aims to fend off security vulnerability exploits.

Volla Phone could ship in October (Crowdfunded smartphone running Linux or Android)  Liliputing