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Built off yesterday's release of Wine 4.21 is now a new Wine-Staging release that continues shipping over 800 patches on top of upstream Wine for offering an experimental/testing blend that often works out much better for gaming on Linux...

Windows 10 Clone On The Menu As Hackers’ Favorite Hacking Tool Gets Update  Forbes

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Sent in on Thursday were the platform-drivers-x86 updates targeting the Linux 5.5 kernel...

How to install the Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop environment on Ubuntu  H2S Media

Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in the char/misc changes earlier this week and were already merged for Linux 5.5...

The "Catch-All" Driver Subsystem Changes Sent In For Linux 5.5  Phoronix

The Rust-based "rav1e" AV1 video encoder continues picking up performance optimizations...

USB Updates In Linux 5.5 Help Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Xavier + More - But No USB 4.0 Yet  Phoronix

USB Updates In Linux 5.5 Help Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Xavier + More - But No USB 4.0 Yet  Phoronix

Earlier this week as part of his series of pull requests, Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted the USB subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.5 kernel...

Wine 4.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release as the feature freeze approaches for the Wine 5.0 release in early 2020...

checkra1n on Linux nearing release, Apple TV DFU helper coming too  PiunikaWeb

OSGeoLive Distro Opens Doors to Geospatial Worlds  LinuxInsider.com

Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10  BleepingComputer

Linux Kernel 5.4 Gets First Point Release, It's Now Ready for Mass Deployments  Softpedia News

Exton|OS Distro Is Now Based on Ubuntu 19.10 and Ships with Linux Kernel 5.4  Softpedia News

Systemd has a present for you with a new release that comes bearing more features for this Linux init system...

Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X  Phoronix

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is performing faster on Linux than Microsoft Windows 10. When carrying out more than 80 different tests on Windows 10 compared to five Linux distributions, Windows 10 was beat out by the open-source competition. However, the performance loss for Windows isn't as dramatic as we have seen out of earlier generations of Ryzen Threadripper HEDT workstations. Here are those benchmarks of Windows 10 compared to Ubuntu 19.10, CentOS 8, Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation 31, and openSUSE Tumbleweed.