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GNOME 3.36 RC2 Released Ahead Of The Official Desktop Update Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/07/2020 - 00:58
The second and final release candidate for the GNOME 3.36 milestone is now available for testing this weekend ahead of the official GNOME 3.36.0 debut next week...

Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:25
Systemd 245 RC2 was released just earlier this week while now it has been succeeded by the stable release of systemd 245...

How I learned about burnout the hard way

opensource.com - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:25

In early 2017, I was mentally in a bad spot. It was the perfect storm of stress, the kind that no one asks for, but you deal with the hand you're dealt. Work was piling up to a point where I couldn't process all the things that were expected of me. I was training for spring half-marathons, which should have been stress relief, but I was putting too much pressure on myself to perform at a high level.


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Acer Is Launching In Germany What Could Be A Great AMD Ryzen 5 4500U Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 21:14
For those that have been looking out for an AMD Linux laptop powered by a Ryzen 4000 series processor, Acer is set to launch a new laptop at least in Germany that could be quite appealing to Linux users...

Intel's Linux Driver Sees Async Flipping Patches For Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 20:09
The latest Intel Linux graphics driver optimization being worked on is asynchronous page-flipping...

Linux PPPD Has A 17 Year Old Vulnerability That Could Lead To Remote Code Execution

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 19:39
It turns out the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon (PPPD) used for dial-up models, DSL, and other point-to-point network setups on Linux has been bugged for the past seventeen years with a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution at the system level...

Linux 5.1 To Linux 5.6 Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2020 - 19:15
For those wondering how the Threadripper 3990X is performing with the upcoming Linux 5.6 kernel, here are benchmarks of a recent development snapshot of Linux 5.6 as well as benchmarking all of the major kernel releases going back to Linux 5.1...

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