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For those that have been wanting to take the experimental Reiser5 for a test drive since being announced at the end of 2019, new versions of the Reiser4 and Reiser5 file-system kernel patches have been posted...

Reiser5 Spun Up For The Linux 5.5.5 Kernel  Phoronix

As part of clearing up the relationship between the FSF and GNU and seeking to add more clarity to the GNU Project, Richard Stallman has announced a document outlining the structure and administration of the project...

Linux Computer Market Revenue Continues to Dominate with CAGR value Globally To 2025  Keep Reading

For some interesting Sunday debates in the forums, how important to you is having a completely open CPU design? Additionally, is POWER dead? This comes following interesting remarks by an industry leader this weekend...

This week in particular saw a lot of fixes in the KDE space for a wide variety of bugs...

Practices and expectations that one may have developed in working with conventional software licensing may lead to frustration when confronting open source software. The modest request, "Please, just show me the license" may be met with an unsatisfying response. While sometimes the response is very simple, often, the license information for open source software is more complicated and does not match the expectations set by conventional software licensing.

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MauiKit Aims to Bring Apps That Can Run on Linux and Android  Beebom

FSCRYPT as the file-system encryption framework for the Linux kernel and is currently wired up for EXT4, F2FS, and UBIFS to offer native encryption capabilities is currently seeing improvements so the separate casefolding (case-insensitive) file/folder support can work on encrypted directories...

Linux's FSCRYPT Working On Encryption + Case-Insensitive Support  Phoronix

Linux's FSCRYPT Working On Encryption + Case-Insensitive Support  Phoronix

AMD's Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 Linux driver release was made available this week as their newest quarterly driver installment intended for use with Radeon Pro graphics hardware...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 for Linux Released  Phoronix

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q1.1 for Linux Released  Phoronix

Linux apps on Chromebooks may be reason enough for external GPU support  Chrome Unboxed

Linux apps on Chromebooks may be reason enough for external GPU support  Chrome Unboxed

Linux Software Size, Share 2020| Global Industry Demand, Top Players, Share, Size, Growth, Regional Outlook and Global Forecast to 2026  Nyse Nasdaq Live

PipeWire is the Red Hat engineered project aiming to offer better audio/video stream handling on Linux that integrates well with Flatpak and can optimally handle use-cases currently covered by the likes of PulseAudio and JACK. This week marked the release of PipeWire 0.3 as another big step forward for the effort...

Going back to the start of 2020 we've been seeing a few patches here and there around AMD Family 19h, almost certainly Zen 3. That patch work has continued with a few more bits out this week while hopefully more bring-up is on the horizon ahead of the Linux 5.7 merge window opening in just over one month's time...

A Few More Linux Kernel Patches Floated This Week For AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)  Phoronix