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As a change past the Linux 5.8 merge window now that the flurry of code activity has settled down was changing the use of zero-length arrays in structs with flexible array members. Linus Torvalds did pull the change into Linux 5.8 but then decided shortly afterwards to drop the change at least for the time being...

Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members  Phoronix

Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members  Phoronix

Linux Mint continues to grow in popularity and maintain its stellar reputation as one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions. It comes highly recommended for beginners thanks to its easy-to-use user interface and tons...

A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...

CentOS Linux 8.2 (2004) Released: Free/Community Version Of RHEL 8.2  Fossbytes

How to loop forever in bash on Linux  Network World

Threat to Windows and Linux cannot be really put in the same basket  iTWire

Here's a bootcamp that could help land a $146,000 Linux cloud engineering job  TechRepublic

A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...

Ubuntu Unity brings back one of the most efficient desktops ever created  TechRepublic

The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...

Since yesterday's big release of Linux 5.8-rc1 I have begun benchmarking this new kernel on various systems. Here are some tests on the first system that was being vetted, the Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics...

Linux-Fu: Automation For Chrome And The Desktop By Matching Screenshots  Hackaday

PinePhone postmarketOS community edition coming soon for $150 (Linux smartphone)  Liliputing

Linux-ready, 3.5-inch Coffee Lake SBC has four USB 3.1 Gen2 ports  LinuxGizmos.com

AutoTux Review: A Linux Distro That Fully Automates Installation Process  Fossbytes

Intel is confirming today that Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) will premiere with upcoming mobile Tiger Lake processors...

Being about six months out from the planned release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has issued its first snapshot of this forthcoming tool-kit update...

Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his prolific contributions to GNOME the past several years particularly in regards to performance has a new merge request open for helping with the "smoothness" of the NVIDIA driver on GNOME Shell...