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Linus Torvalds Hasn't Yet Decided On "LOCKDOWN" Functionality For Linux 5.4  Phoronix

In addition to adding Intel Icelake support to the kernel's processor thermal / int340x code, there is an interesting change with the thermal management updates for Linux 5.4 to potentially boost the performance on Intel platforms...

Linux 5.4 To Allow Adjusting Intel TCC Thermal Activation Offset For Better Performance  Phoronix

Microsoft Wants Your Feedback on the Edge Browser for Linux  BleepingComputer

With this week's release of the much anticipated CentOS 8.0 as the community/free rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as well as the surprise announcement of the bleeding-edge, rolling-release CentOS Stream, we have begun benchmarking these enterprise Linux distribution releases. Up today are our first tests of CentOS 7.7 against CentOS 8.0 and the early CentOS Stream state on Intel Xeon Cascadelake and AMD EPYC Rome servers.

Microsoft is trying to bring the Chromium-based Edge to Linux  Neowin

Microsoft To Bring Edge Browser To Linux  Fossbytes

For owners of recent Lenovo laptops that find frequent thermal throttling and ultimately lower performance compared to Windows, the company has formally acknowledged the issue and is working towards addressing the issue...

Lenovo To Address Linux Laptop Thermal Throttling, Lower Performance Against Windows  Phoronix

Ubuntu Linux 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' Beta available for download  BetaNews

Dineshwar Kumar, Consultant ( Linux) at HCL, Talks about the ECSA - EC-Council Official Blog  EC-Council Blog

ArcoLinux Eases the Way for the Arch-Curious User  LinuxInsider.com

It has surprisingly taken until the Linux 5.4 kernel in 2019 to potentially have a single unified way for calculating the size of a member of a struct within the kernel: Linux 5.4 is looking at adding a new sizeof_member macro for handling this purpose...

One of the lesser known Vulkan drivers within Mesa is TURNIP but at least this week it's been seeing new activity after a recent lull of activity...

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The Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" is now available in beta form with the official release being less than one month away...

Microsoft Wants to Launch Chromium Edge Browser on Linux, And It Needs Your Help  Softpedia News

NPi i.MX6ULL Industrial-grade Linux SBC Starts at $39  CNX Software

CentOS 8 has finally been released! The new version, which is a community version of RHEL 8, ships with new and exciting features which promise an enhanced user experience. Installing CentOS 8 is pretty...

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