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This DIY USB 'Kill Cable' Locks Down Your Linux Laptop If Snatched In Public  Fossbytes

With Red Hat shifting their support to Wayland and expecting the X.Org Server to go into a hard maintenance mode quickly, in 2019 indeed it did...

How to install Cockpit on Fedora server  H2S Media

Back in late 2018 when Linus Torvalds went on a sabbatical from kernel development to focus on his inter-personal skills, the kernel added a Code of Conduct. To date there hasn't been much transparency into the Code of Conduct committee that acts upon violations, but that is changing in 2020...

The Linux Kernel Code of Conduct Committee Begins Offering Regular Reports  Phoronix

Linux Gamers Banned in Battlefield V if Using Wine and DXVK  BleepingComputer

EA bans players running Battlefield V on Linux  OS News

Google preps low-cost Coral Dev Board Mini and new Edge TPU LGA module  LinuxGizmos.com

While complicated by New Year's festivities, Wine 5.0-RC4 was released today with just fifteen bug fixes for the week -- also a sign of the development cycle winding down for this annual Wine stable release...

Chromebooks silently testing microphone support for Linux on Chrome OS 79  Android Police

For months there has been many different discussions over the Linux desktop's poor performance when under memory pressure / out-of-memory type situations. That has resulted in some upstream work so far like GNOME GLib's GMemoryMonitor as well as discussions by distribution vendors about what solutions they could enable today to help the low memory situations. Fedora 32 could begin shipping and using EarlyOOM by default to help in this area...

Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations  Phoronix

Ringing in the new year with 136 open-spec Linux SBCs under $200  LinuxGizmos.com

Ringing in the new year with 136 open-spec Linux SBCs under $200  LinuxGizmos.com

Google Stadia Port Troubles Blamed on the Linux Kernel Scheduler  Tom's Hardware

Hitting Mesa 20.0-devel a short time ago were a set of patches to the Radeon Gallium3D video code for fixing 10-bit HEVC video decode support...

Your choice of Linux distribution on a budget PC can mean the difference of ~14% performance overall. Here are benchmarks of Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, EndeavourOS, Manjaro Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux on a $50 processor as we roll into 2020 with the newest Linux distribution releases.

Microphone support finally comes to Linux on Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has been working on improving the security of OpenWrt, the Linux distribution popular for running on routers / networking equipment and other embedded Linux networking use-cases...