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Intel Working On "Virtual Bus" As Generic Way Of Exchanging Data Between Devices/Driver  Phoronix

NXP's Linux-driven, safety-critical automotive SoC mixes Cortex-A53 with -M7  LinuxGizmos.com

How to install Tor browser on Kali Linux via Terminal  H2S Media

Cumulus's Linux to Run Networks for Large HPE Storage Clusters  Data Center Knowledge

Apple AirScan is akin to their AirPrint technology for supporting various printers from Apple devices without the need for specialized drivers. Multi-function printers compliant with AirPrint also need to implement AirScan for scanner functionality, thus opening up most of today's multi-function printers to supporting this scanning standard. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS could end up supporting AirScan nicely thanks to new SANE back-ends...

Quietly released over the holidays was Intel's quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver that serves as their modern open-source GPU-accelerated video encode/decode solution for Linux systems...

Intel Media Driver Q4-19 Brings Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Better Encode/Decode  Phoronix

Given the recent discussions over the default performance of the Linux scheduler, the Liquorix patches to the Linux kernel, and other recent forum discussions over different kernel configurations and flavors, here are some reference benchmarks looking at the performance of some of the kernel options available to Clear Linux users...

Huawei unveils openEuler, CentOS-based Linux distribution  www.computing.co.uk

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  ITworld

The best Linux laptop  Hartford Courant

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia

Meet The Linux Desktop That Wants To Be An Ideal Upgrade For Windows 7 Users  Forbes

While more Linux distributions have begun packaging (and in the case of Fedora, potentially deploying by default) EarlyOOM as the out-of-memory monitoring daemon for trying to improve the Linux desktop's handling of low memory situations, systemd ultimately should be picking up its own out-of-memory daemon in the months ahead...

Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD  Phoronix

Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD  Phoronix

The recent work by longtime kernel developer Andy Lutomirski on improving Linux's random APIs and introducing a new "GRND_INSECURE" option is now queued into the random dev queue ahead of the Linux 5.6 cycle...