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PineTab Linux Tablet Coming Soon for $100. Watch an Ubuntu Touch Demo in the Meantime  CNX Software

Memory Management Units (MMU) Market Growth and Status Explored in a New Research Report: Intel, ARM, Atmel, Axis Communications, Keil, Linux Kernel, Xilinx, Motorola, Toshiba, Texas Instruments, IBM, and More…  Cole of Duty

While the past few weeks have seen relatively smaller than usual weekly release candidates, Linux 5.7-rc6 is out this evening and it's bigger than normal...

Linux 5.7-rc6 Released - Torvalds Is Not Entirely Happy Over Its Size  Phoronix

How-To: Installing Google Earth Pro for desktop on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Carsten Haitzler has released Enlightenment 0.24 as the latest significant update to this X11 window manager and Wayland compositor...

Since the release of Rav1e v0.3.1 back in February the "weekly pre-releases" dropped off until this week with there finally being a new tagged milestone...

Anyone interested by this ? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Driver Adds Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Mobile Tech News

The folks at Laminar Research published a new blog post this week detailing their latest development work on their Vulkan (and Apple Metal) renderers for the realistic X-Plane flight simulator...

X-Plane's Vulkan Renderer Maturing, More Performance Optimizations Still Coming  Phoronix

Various open-source patches have gone back to at least 2017 for enabling Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for the Linux kernel and related components. This is the Intel feature for helping prevent ROP and COP/JOP style attacks via indirect branch tracking and a shadow stack. Recently there has been a fair amount of CET improvements to the various open-source components...

Intel CET Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux In 2020  Phoronix

While there aren't yet any Arm SoCs we are aware of at least offering Thunderbolt connectivity, that will eventually change with at least USB4 being based on Thunderbolt. But in any case Thunderbolt software support can work on Arm today if using a Thunderbolt add-in PCIe card...

Linux Thunderbolt Support Can Work On Arm Systems  Phoronix

The ZFS file-system has long offered transparent file-system compression via the likes of LZ4 and Gzip and while now Zstd compression is under review for OpenZFS and seeking testing from the community...

Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS  Phoronix

Zstd Compression Under Review For OpenZFS  Phoronix

5 Best Linux Distributions For Gaming  Techlomedia

Week in review: Kali Linux 2020.2, sensor-based ransomware detection, 10 most exploited vulns  Help Net Security