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At the same time of Linux receiving a new exFAT driver, the Linux kernel is still seeing improvements to its classic FAT file-system code...

FAT File-System Driver For Linux Sees Patch To Run Multiple Times Faster  Phoronix

Following yesterday's release of Wine 5.6 as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot, Alistair Leslie-Hughes has announced Wine-Staging 5.6 as the experimental flavor of Wine with some 850+ extra patches on top...

Wine-Staging 5.6 Brings Fix For Some Games Having Non-Functioning Mouse Input  Phoronix

Job of the Week: Senior Level Unix/Linux Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems  insideHPC

Exaile is an open source and cross platform music player for Windows, macOS and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

This week's bombshell that future Qt releases might be restricted to paying customers for a period of twelve months has many open-source users and developers rightfully upset. Qt so far only provided a brief, generic statement but several individuals and projects are already expressing interest in a Qt fork should it come to it...

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at GNOME Foundation's new contributor program, a new Linux integrity checker from Microsoft, a free software alternative to smart TVs, and more!

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The mythos of the remote home office or the exciting archetype of the digital nomad are as appealing as they are dangerous. It's great to be able to avoid a commute, to be able to stay comfortable at home while getting lots of work done, and to be master of your own schedule. But along with those liberties, you inherit the responsibility of remembering to be a normal, functioning human being. Believe it or not, the two aren't mutually exclusive. You can do both, but you have to work at it. Here are some ideas on how.

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AV Linux 2020.4.10 Released: A Debian-Based OS For Multimedia Content Creator  Fossbytes

With the Git 2.26 release at the end of March one of the performance wins comes in the way of Git's grep functionality now being multi-threaded...

Intel Xeon Gold 5220R + Xeon Gold 6226R Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

At the end of February Intel launched the Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake Refresh" processors with a number of more aggressively priced SKUs with different core counts and clock speeds compared to the original Cascade Lake CPUs launched last year. Intel recently sent over the Xeon Gold 5220R and Xeon Gold 6226R processors and we've begun our Linux benchmarks of them. In this article is our initial look at their performance using a near-final build of Ubuntu 20.04 and seeing how the performance stacks up in raw performance and performance-per-dollar against the AMD EPYC competition.

Unigine Corp has announced a new "Community" edition of their visually stunning, cross-platform game/simulation engine that will be available to non-commercial projects and academic entities...

Unigine Community Edition Offers Engine For Free To Non-Commercial/Academic Projects  Phoronix

Wine 5.6 is out as the latest bi-weekly snapshot of this program for running Windows applications and games under Linux...

System76 Launches Lemur Pro Linux Laptop with Open Source Firmware  LXer

How to register your Linux to Red Hat Subscription Management  TechGenix

WireGuard® on PIA is out of beta and available to use on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS  Privacy News Online

Linux app support coming to Chromebooks with Core M Skylake chips (Samsung Chromebook Pro, Asus Chromebook Flip C302)  Liliputing