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Kubuntu Focus Linux laptop now available (for $1800 and up)  Liliputing

Rocket League Mac and Linux players can get a refund  Pak Gamers Republic

Psyonix Granting Refunds to Mac and Linux Rocket League Players  Appuals

In ruffling feathers of open-source Qt fans, The Qt Company announced a series of changes today to help foster their commercial business...

Chris Lattner, the founder of the LLVM compiler stack and sub-projects like the Clang C/C++ compiler front-end, has joined RISC-V firm SiFive...

Fresh off the Linux 5.5 release, the Free Software Foundation Latin America crew has debuted their GNU Linux-libre 5.5 downstream that continues to be focused on deblobbing the kernel of drivers requiring proprietary firmware and stripping out other code/functionality that is contingent upon non-free software bits and removing the ability to load closed-source kernel modules...

Linux 5.5 Required More Deblobbing Than Usual For GNU Linux-libre 5.5  Phoronix

Linux on laptops: Ubuntu 19.10 at the HP Dragonfly Elite G1  Herald Writer

Linux on laptops: Ubuntu 19.10 on the HP Dragonfly Elite G1  Ars Technica

Rocket League PC, Mac, Linux Refund | How to get money back  Game Revolution

Following last month's release of the big Qt 5.14 tool-kit, Qt 5.14.1 is out this morning as the first point release...

Rocket League ending Mac and Linux support because they represent "less than 0.3%" of active players  Rock Paper Shotgun

Solus 4.1 Fortitude Linux distro now available for download with Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and MATE  BetaNews

With Wine 5.0 having released and the Git tree back open for feature work, we're quite looking forward to see what new material will land following this feature freeze that was in effect the past two months...

SUSE's Borislav Petkov sent in the (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) updates for the Linux 5.6 kernel on this first day of the new merge window...

The Initial AMD Family 19h Support Sent In For Linux 5.6 EDAC Driver  Phoronix

Habana Labs, the AI start-up being bought out by Intel, is still striving towards upstreaming their Gaudi processor support code for AI training...

Habana Labs Aims To Upstream Gaudi AI Accelerator Code For Linux 5.7~5.8  Phoronix

Rocket League Mac and Linux players can now get refunds  PC Gamer

Introduced by RedHat in RHEL 7.5 and later, VDO short for Virtual Date Optimizer is a block virtualization technology that provides inline deduplication and compression of data at a block device level. The idea...