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The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Linux 5.4 brought a preliminary Microsoft exFAT file-system driver after Microsoft made the exFAT specification public and encouraged the support for Linux. But with the Linux 5.7 kernel this spring, a new exFAT file-system driver is going to land that is a much improved version of the earlier code...

Going back about two years has been work by Linaro on "thermal pressure" support for the scheduler so that it can make better task placement decisions among CPU cores when any of the core(s) are being restricted by running too hot. That work is now set to finally land this spring with the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Thermal Pressure On Tap For Linux 5.7 So The Scheduler Can Be Aware Of Overheating CPUs  Phoronix

Thermal Pressure On Tap For Linux 5.7 So The Scheduler Can Be Aware Of Overheating CPUs  Phoronix

Ubuntu 20.04 is coming out next month and will be the first LTS release with Ubuntu desktop ZFS support available for the root file-system after it was made easy-to-deploy the Ubuntu desktop on ZFS last cycle. One of the areas being expanded upon with the ZFS support has been Ubuntu's Zsys daemon for offering extra functionality for ZFS-based setups...

Ubuntu 20.04 Atop ZFS+Zsys Will Take Snapshots On APT Operations  Phoronix

The Qt Company has put out the first public beta of the Qt Creator 4.12 integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ development...

The Khronos Group has released Vulkan 1.2.134 as their newest revision to this high-performance graphics/compute API...

17-Yr-Old RCE Flaw Can Hack Several Linux Systems  Techworm

17-Yr-Old RCE Flaw Can Hack Several Linux Systems  Techworm

Top 10 disk space analyzer tools to use on Linux systems in 2020  H2S Media

Maybe you're like me, and you learned a musical instrument when you were in school. For me, it was the piano, and later, the viola. However, I've always held that, as my childhood interests shifted towards computers and coding, I subsequently neglected my music practice. I do wonder what I would have done if I'd had something like Sonic Pi when I was younger. Sonic Pi is an open source program that lets you compose and perform music through code itself. It's the perfect marriage of those two worlds.

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Rocket League's Last Update for Mac and Linux Releases March 10  Twinfinite

Op-Ed: Windows 7 users ignoring Win 10 upgrade, Linux strikes back  Digital Journal

Rocket League March Update features blueprint trade-ins & the end of Mac/Linux support  Shacknews

F2FS vs. EXT4 File-System Performance With Intel's Clear Linux  Phoronix

Intel's performance-oriented Clear Linux distribution recently added support for using F2FS as the root file-system so we were curious to run some benchmarks on it for how it stacks up against EXT4.

The second and final release candidate for the GNOME 3.36 milestone is now available for testing this weekend ahead of the official GNOME 3.36.0 debut next week...

Compact Linux networking board has dual mini-PCIe slots  LinuxGizmos.com