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With Ubuntu 20.04 to see installation on many desktops (and servers) given its Long-Term Support status, Canonical and the Yaru community team have begun working on a successor to the Yaru theme for this Linux distribution release due out in April...

The Wine-downstream Proton that powers Valve's Steam Play is up to version 4.11-12 following a release today by a CodeWeavers developer...

Within GCC's newly minted Git repository is a big last minute feature for the GCC 10 release: a long-awaited static analyzer...

Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles  Phoronix

Tesla Is Making Use Of The Open-Source Coreboot Within Their Electric Vehicles  Phoronix

Not only is Linux increasingly used within automobiles but it turns out at least one automobile manufacturer is even using Coreboot within their vehicles...

On top of the Intel graphics driver patches back from November for denial of service and privilege escalation bugs, the Linux kernel received a new patch today for "CVE-2019-14615" regarding a possible data disclosure with Gen9 graphics hardware...

Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patched For A Gen9 Graphics Vulnerability  Phoronix

Wind River Acquires Star Lab, Bolsters Linux and Embedded System Cybersecurity Offerings  Embedded Computing Design

The Easiest Way to Switch from Windows 7 to Linux  Lifehacker

Back in 2018 a time namespace was proposed for the Linux kernel and now in 2020 it looks like this kernel functionality will be merged for mainline, likely with the upcoming Linux 5.6 cycle...

The Time Namespace Appears To Finally Be On-Deck For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The Time Namespace Appears To Finally Be On-Deck For The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Bonus Pack Makes SAP Hana Movers Happy  E3zine.com

Vulkan could soon be used indirectly on safety critical military and aerospace displays thanks to CoreAVI's VkCoreGL SC1...

Wind River buys Star Lab for better system-wide security  Stacey on IoT

Wind River Extends Embedded Security and Linux Leadership with Acquisition of Star Lab  WIND

Longtime Red Hat developer Richard Jones has begun developing "Goals" as a new tool to improve upon Make, the common build automation tool...

How to switch from Windows 7 to Chrome OS CloudReady  ZDNet

It's too bad that it has taken so many months after AMD Zen 2 based Ryzen and EPYC processors began shipping to see this compiler support in place, but the good news now is that for the upcoming release of LLVM 10.0 is now the Zen 2 scheduler model being added to the "znver2" target...