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NUVIA To Make Serious Play For New CPUs In The Datacenter, Hires Linux/OSS Veteran  Phoronix

Librem 5 "Birch" batch was supposed to be shipping from 29 October to 26 November. They are now preparing to start shipping this second iteration of the Librem 5 Linux smartphone after early units in this batch were missing a resistor...

Drew DeVault of Sway/WL-ROOTS notoriety and longtime Wayland developer Simon Ser have started development on WXRC, a new Wayland compositor...

Dart 2.6 Goes Native on Linux, Windows, and MacOS  InfoQ.com

Purism has finally published their blog post outlining the software work they accomplished during October on bringing up the Librem 5 smartphone...

New NextCry Ransomware Encrypts Data on NextCloud Linux Servers  BleepingComputer

Massive Growth in Linux Operating System Market Expected Huge Growth by 2019-2026 Profiling Key Players IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux  Market Expert

ALT Linux: Worthy Linux Alternatives, With a Catch  LinuxInsider.com

Deepin Linux Shows Off Its Next Big Feature: A Smart AI Voice Assistant  Forbes

OnLogic (formerly known as Logic Supply until a recent rebranding) announced the Karbon 700 back in August as a durable Linux-friendly computer largely intended for industrial applications but nothing prevents the user from using it as a passively, well-built desktop PC either. OnLogic recently sent over the Karbon 700 and it's been working out very well even with passively cooling an Intel Xeon eight-core / sixteen-thread processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB NVMe storage, and more.

Sandwich-style SBC runs Linux on i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

While Android 10 is the latest release of Google's mobile operating system, the downstream Android-x86 has been on the Android 8 "Oreo" series for stable while now the first release candidate of Android-x86 9.0 is available for testing...

The crypto code within the Linux kernel for the upcoming 5.5 cycle finishes converting the drivers to making full use of the four-year-old SKCIPHER interface so that the old ABLKCIPHER code can be removed...

Linux 5.5 To Finally Kill The Async Block Cipher API In Favor Of SKCIPHER  Phoronix

Now you can buy a Linux smartphone for $150 (PinePhone BraveHeart developer/early adopter edition)  Liliputing

Glen Singh on why Kali Linux is an arsenal for any cybersecurity professional [Interview]  Security Boulevard

Rufus for linux? Not available, Use these best alternatives  H2S Media

Anyone Can Pre-Order The Linux-Based Open-Source 'PinePhone'  Fossbytes

Whitewater Foundry Announces Release of Distribution Manager for Windows Subsystem for Linux: Introducing 'Raft'  PRNewswire

Whitewater Foundry Announces Release of Distribution Manager for Windows Subsystem for Linux: Introducing 'Raft'  Yahoo Finance