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With the new exFAT file-system merged for Linux 5.7, Samsung engineers responsible for this open-source native Linux kernel driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system support have now issued their first official release of exfat-utils...

Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck  Phoronix

Samsung Chromebook Pro to get Linux support after 3 years  SamMobile

Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE  Ars Technica

Yesterday a KDE developer who serves on the board of the KDE Free Qt Foundation commented that The Qt Company is evaluating restricting new releases to paying customers for 12 months. That was said to be under consideration due to COVID19 / coronavirus impacting their finances and needing to boost short-term revenues. The Qt Company has now come out with an incredibly brief statement on the matter...

Windows 10 catches Linux cancer  Fudzilla

For The People Announced For Windows PC, Mac, and Linux  Niche Gamer

Loopfs: A New Loop Device File System For Linux  Fossbytes

Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC  Phoronix

Linux 5.7 Begins Landing Support For The Kendryte K210 Dual-Core RISC-V SoC  Phoronix

The RISC-V architecture changes have been submitted for the Linux 5.7 kernel and includes early work on bringing up a new RISC-V dual-core SoC...

Redis provides high availability via Redis Sentinel distributed system. Sentinel helps to monitor Redis instances, detect failures and will do roles switches automatically thus enabling a Redis deployment to resist any kind of failures....

We have a laser printer at home. This Hewlett Packard LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer is an older model, but it has been a great workhorse that prints reliably and in color. I put it on our home network a few years ago using our Raspberry Pi as a print server.

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COVID-19 has suddenly thrown all of us into a new and challenging situation. Many of us are now working full-time from home, and for a lot of us (especially people who aren't used to working remotely), this is taking some getting used to.

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Microsoft Adds Linux Perks to Windows 10, Talks 'Windows Hassles'  Redmond Channel Partner

BlackBerry researchers say China-affiliated groups have infiltrated Linux systems for years  IT World Canada

LaTeX is a powerful system, especially for writing scientific and technical documents. But writing documents in LaTeX can be confusing because you need to know a lot of commands, and your text is littered with backslashes, curly braces, and other syntax distractions. But being productive as a writer requires that you focus on the text's content instead of how it looks. Fortunately, the GNU Emacs Org mode extension makes it easy to write plain-text documents and seamlessly export them to LaTeX and PDF.

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The Ceph open-source distributed storage platform is seeing some nice performance-related work to its kernel component in the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Ceph Sees Some Nice Performance Improvements With Linux 5.7  Phoronix

This is a guest post, contributed by Dave Ellis, Technical Architect at Perficient.