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The $199 Pinebook Pro Gets Even Better With New Manjaro KDE Version  Forbes

Complementing the Firefox 73 vs. 74 vs. 75 Beta benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux from AMD Ryzen this week, here are those numbers side-by-side with the Google Chrome 80 web-browser for putting the performance into more perspective...

Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux  Phoronix

Chrome 80 Against Firefox 74/75 Performance On Linux  Phoronix

Marcel Holtmann of Intel's open-source Linux team released BlueZ 5.54 this morning as the latest version of this widely-used user-space Linux Bluetooth stack...

BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support  Phoronix

BlueZ 5.54 Linux Bluetooth Stack Released With Just-Works Repairing Policy, EATT Support  Phoronix

Coming just past the GNOME 3.36.0 release is the merging of a year-old patch-set to tie in middle mouse button click emulation with libinput for Mutter...

The Coronavirus doesn't appear to be impacting KDE development speed at all as it's been another week seeing a ton of feature activity for this open-source desktop...

Why picking Windows 10 over Mac and Linux could be the best decision you make  Express

Some time ago, I decided to move my computing environment from a Mac Mini PowerPC to a Raspberry Pi Model 2. This article describes my reasons for doing so and how I did it. While it is quite technical in places, if you're considering switching from an existing system to something decidedly lean and mean, there are things that you need to know before making that leap. There are lots of links to click as well, which will lead you to the software and apps that I mention.

Enjoy!

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Centrify extends Microsoft's Red Forest to Linux and UNIX  ITP.net

After being in development for two years, GNOME Shortwave has seen its first stable release shortly after this week's GNOME 3.36 desktop debut...

Back in January "iGPU Leak" was disclosed as CVE-2019-14615 as an information leakage vulnerability affecting Intel's graphics architecture leading to both register and local memory leaks. While Intel "Gen9" graphics were patched right away on the disclosure date and Gen8 Broadwell graphics were already mitigated, Gen7/Gen7.5 graphics took longer... In fact, not until the Linux 5.7 release this spring is there the mitigation for iGPU Leak...

Linux 5.7 To Bring Mitigation For Intel Gen7 Ivybridge/Haswell "iGPU Leak"  Phoronix

It's been a while since having news on Redox OS as the Rustlang-written open-source operating system. But it turns out that's been due to Jeremy Soller being busy working on Pkgar as a new package management format for the operating system...

1. Windows 10's built-in Linux kernel will be available to everyone soon  Engadget
2. Why picking Windows 10 over Mac and Linux could be the best decision you make  Express
3. Microsoft Is Making it Easier to Update the Linux Kernel Built Into Windows 10  Tom's Hardware
4. Microsoft Will Update the Linux Kernel in Windows 10 Using Windows Update  Softpedia News
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Windows 10's built-in Linux kernel will be available to everyone soon  Engadget

2 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Canonical And Ubuntu 20.04  Forbes

2 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Canonical And Ubuntu 20.04  Forbes