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In addition to talking about code/hardware obsolescence from the Linux kernel, prominent upstream Linux kernel developer Arnd Bermann also presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference on the current SoC landscape and sharing his predictions for ten years down the road...

A Kernel Maintainer's Prediction On The CPU Architecture Landscape For 2030  Phoronix

A Kernel Maintainer's Prediction On The CPU Architecture Landscape For 2030  Phoronix

Apache Cassandra is a high-performance opensource NoSQL database engine that provides fault tolerance, linear scalability, and consistency across multiple nodes. Give its distributed architecture, Apache Cassandra handles huge volumes of data with dynamo-style replication.

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The Genode OS project is out with its 20.08 version bump that brings some high profile improvements for this open-source operating system framework...

Linux 5.9-rc3 Is A "Pretty Calm" Release  Phoronix

Linux 5.9-rc3 Is A "Pretty Calm" Release  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds has released the sixth weekly test version of the forthcoming Linux 5.9 kernel...

Open source Mario Kart clone SuperTuxKart 1.2 is FREE on Windows, Mac, and Linux  BetaNews

At the GNU Tools Track during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference was an interesting talk by Red Hat's Ben Woodard. He shares his perspective on how the GNU dynamic linker (ld.so) could be ripe for an overhaul in the 2020's...

Is It Time To Overhaul The GNU Dynamic Linker?  Phoronix

There has been the out-of-tree DKMS hid-nintendo driver to support the Nintendo Switch controller on Linux while with the Linux 5.10 kernel later this year that driver will be merged...

Nintendo Switch Controller Driver To Be Upstreamed With Linux 5.10  phoronix.com

Nintendo Switch Controller Driver To Be Upstreamed With Linux 5.10  Phoronix

Judging from the latest FUSE Git activity, it's looking like the VirtIO-FS DAX patches that have been around since last year could be merged for Linux 5.10. This can provide a significant speed-up for those making use of this FUSE file-system for sharing files/folders with guest VMs...

VirtIO-FS DAX Support Close To Mainline For Offering Tremendous Performance Boost  Phoronix

How to install GUI File Manager Nautilus on WSL -Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Like most conferences this year, the annual LLVM Developers' Meeting has become an online-only affair...

Backup and restore your Chromebook’s Linux setup  Chrome Unboxed

Lenovo Launches Fedora-Powered X1 Carbon With Linux In The Spotlight  Forbes