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Chinese malware 'Golang' targeting Windows, Linux machines  Express Computer

FinOps Foundation Joins Linux Foundation to Bring Focus to Cloud Costs  ITPro Today

Zink is the generic OpenGL over Vulkan driver that has been in development as part of Mesa's Gallium3D code. It was just earlier this month that Zink achieved OpenGL 3.0 support and now it looks like OpenGL 3.1 will soon be flipped on...

Global Linux Software Industry Market Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast to 2025  Express Journal

Painless file extraction on Linux  Network World

Lua 5.4 shipped today as the newest version of the interpreter for this scripting programming language that is particularly popular for embedding within games and other applications...

IBM donates AI ethics tools to Linux Foundation  TechTarget

Recently AMD posted UVD video decode support for GCN 1.0 with the AMDGPU driver, one of the long holdouts for letting the AMDGPU DRM driver approach feature parity with the longstanding Radeon DRM driver that is the default for GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPUs. That AMDGPU UVD GCN 1.0 decode support is going into the Linux 5.9 kernel later this summer after years ago Radeon driver developers largely dismissed the efforts of porting the UVD decode capability for these original GCN graphics cards over to AMDGPU...

AMD Publishes AMDGPU UVD Firmware For Southern Islands  Phoronix

Convert Ubuntu Linux into a ‘rolling release’ distribution by installing Rolling Rhino  Explica

CutiePi tablet based on Raspberry Pi CM3+ starts at $169  LinuxGizmos.com

Linus Torvalds on the future of Linux kernel developers and development  ZDNet

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for hosting firmware files to be consumed by Fwupd for firmware updating from Linux is on quite a streak...

Linux-Fu: Parallel Universe  Hackaday

fiasco with Linux Mint 19.3 and MX Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

3 Blockchain Firms, iExec, IoTeX, and R3, join Linux Foundation’s Privacy-Focused Consortium  Bitcoin Exchange Guide

Whiskey Lake signage player supports dual 4K displays  LinuxGizmos.com

FinOps Foundation joins The Linux Foundation to nail down best cloud financial practices  ZDNet

AMD EPYC 7F72 Performance On A Linux FSGSBASE-Patched Kernel  Phoronix

Slated for Linux 5.9 is finally mainlining the FSGSBASE patches that have been floating around the kernel mailing list for years. Testing last week showed the tentative x86/fsgsbase patches helping Intel Xeon Linux performance but with AMD also supporting this instruction set extension going back to Bulldozer, how is it looking on the likes of AMD? Here are some benchmarks.