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The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates  Phoronix

How to install a GUI for Linux apps on your Chromebook  TechRepublic

1. Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and fixed  ZDNet
2. Linux and macOS PCs hit by serious Sudo vulnerability  TechRadar
3. Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges  Ars Technica
4. Sudo Flaw Grants Root Privileges | Decipher  Decipher
5. Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and resolved  Mash Viral
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Nasty Linux, macOS sudo bug found and fixed  ZDNet

With last month's release of the Radeon RX 5600 XT as quite a capable sub-$300 graphics card there was a new video BIOS at launch-day to significantly improve the performance even more. But that updated vBIOS was causing issues with the Linux driver. The necessary fix has now landed in linux-firmware.git as the necessary SMC firmware update for Navi...

Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Rav1e v0.2 brought 40~70% speed improvements over its previous release for this Rustlang-based AV1 video encoder but the upcoming Rav1e 0.3 will be even faster...

Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G Is A Great Intel Workstation Motherboard For Linux/BSD Systems Review  Phoronix

For those building an Intel Core X-series system, the Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G is the board we have been relying upon for our Cascadelake-X testing over the past two months and it has continued working out phenomenally for being a feature-rich platform while playing nicely with the various Linux distributions and BSDs tested.

Siemens continues investing in Jailhouse as a Linux-based simplicity-minded partitioning hypervisor catering to bare metal appliances. Jailhouse 0.12 is out today as their first feature update since last summer and comes with numerous hardware support improvements and new features...

Linux and macOS PCs hit by serious Sudo vulnerability  TechRadar

Raspberry Pi rival: Linux PinePhone maker reveals its new board  ZDNet

While the standard is now two decades old and has yet to unseat the JPEG image standard in popularity, there is renewed interest in JPEG2000 with High Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) and finally seeing increased software support. Collabora's Aaron Boxer thinks that JPEG2000 could finally be going mainstream...

Major Japanese hardware vendor joins Open Invention Network  ZDNet

SCaLE 18X Linux Expo March 5-8th 2020  Geeky Gadgets

There had been a proposal to better compress the Fedora 32 install media via SquashFS without the nested EXT4 file-system setup for its live images and also ramping up the XZ compression. But this proposal was rejected at yesterday's engineering meeting on the basis that a more optimal compression path could be utilized...

Switching from Windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux is very easy, so why is Canonical making it seem so hard?  BetaNews

The seL4 micro-kernel that is focused on delivering robust security and performance is being ported to the RISC-V architecture...

Following last week's release of Linux 5.5, Con Kolivas is out today with his latest "CK" patch-set and MuQSS scheduler for this new kernel version...