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Linux Sound Subsystem Begins Cleaning Up Its Terminology To Meet Inclusive Guidelines  Phoronix

While Fedora 33 desktop variants are aiming to use Btrfs by default, non-desktop environments are not and Red Hat remains committed to XFS and their Stratis Storage technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Coming to Fedora 33 will also likely be Stratis 2.1 for offering the latest on that front...

Stratis 2.1 Proposed For Fedora 33 To Bring Per-Pool Encryption  Phoronix

Tuxedo Pulse 15 is a 3.3 pound Linux laptop with an AMD Ryzen “Renoir” processor  Liliputing

Linux Foundation announces open source exposure notification apps initiative to combat COVID-19  TechRepublic

A Closer Look at the Pinebook Pro $199 Linux Laptop  Softpedia News

Server Not Found - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Worldwide Linux Computer Market Study for 2020 to 2025 providing information on Key Players, Growth Drivers and Industry challenges  Cole of Duty

How to install Linux  TechRepublic

Surprising many in the open-source community in recent weeks was the LibreOffice 7.0 release candidate branded as a "Personal Edition". While still being free/open-source software and no licensing change, the traditional LibreOffice build was going to be marketed as "Personal Edition" to differentiate from other stakeholders that may market their professional/enterprise services around this cross-platform, open-source office suite. Those Personal Edition plans are now officially being reverted from next month's LibreOffice 7.0 release...

Pinebook Pro Linux laptop is available for $200 (again)  Liliputing

RISC-V based PolarFire SoC debuts on open-spec, $499 dev kit  LinuxGizmos.com

Sabrent USB 3.2 Enclosure + Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD On Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Ubuntu Update Hack Chat  Hackaday

For those looking at an NVMe PCIe M.2 solid-state drive enclosure for connecting to USB 3.1/3.2 systems, Sabrent offers a nice option with their EC-TFNB enclosure that is constructed out of aluminum, 100% tool-free, and runs well. I recently bought this Sabrent USB 3.2 enclosure along with the Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe solid-state drive, which offers nice performance for a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD and the 2TB capacity can be found for just about $250 USD.

Source code of Covid Tracker Ireland app goes global with Linux project  Siliconrepublic.com

Linux-based Set Top Box Market by COVID-19 impact analysis, SWOT, market size, chain and raw materials analysis report by 2026 | Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei  Owned

KaOS Linux 2020.07 Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

Over the past several months there has been work on Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver for async page-flipping to yield better performance. That work was revised against today for hopefully making it into a kernel release in the near future albeit too late for Linux 5.9 but regardless nice to see this work moving forward...

Intel Async Page-Flipping Support Revised For Benefiting Skylake Graphics And Newer  Phoronix