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The random changes have been sent in for Linux 5.6 that yield /dev/random behavioral changes and a new random flag...

/dev/random Is More Like /dev/urandom With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

Ingenic X1000 SoC Being Supported By The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

Adding to the Linux 5.6 excitement is the hardware enablement of the MIPS-based Ingenic X1000 SoC...

University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support...

Following on from last week's story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place...

GNU C Library 2.31 (Glibc 2.31) should be releasing in the days ahead and is now under a hard freeze for this next feature release to this important libc implementation...

Thanks to Linux on Chrome OS, you can play the ‘Game of the Decade’ on your Chromebook [VIDEO]  Chrome Unboxed

Linux Star Trek fans, rejoice: CBS All Access now works in your OS [Updated]  Ars Technica

Solus Shines With Plasma Desktop Options  LinuxInsider.com

Solus Shines With Plasma Desktop Options  TechNewsWorld

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop  Phoronix

When carrying out our Windows vs. Linux benchmarks we normally are doing so on interesting high-end hardware but for today's benchmarking is a look at how a $199 USD laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor compares between Windows 10 as it's shipped on the laptop against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution.

First Linux-powered Ryzen V1000 thin client can drive four displays  LinuxGizmos.com

First Linux-powered Ryzen V1000 thin client can drive four displays  LinuxGizmos.com

Earlier this month when Intel disclosed CVE-2019-14615 as a security vulnerability affecting their graphics architecture, older Gen7 graphics saw a huge hit to their performance with the initial patches for addressing this vulnerability on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. Fortunately, a new mitigation patch series was sent out this week where they believe the performance costs are now avoided...

In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...

Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option  Phoronix

With the V3D Gallium3D driver hitting OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their partners have turned to focusing on getting their Vulkan driver off the ground for Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs...

Meet The Best Music App For Linux — And It Actually Looks Good, Too  Forbes