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Top 5 Snaps In Linux Distros Revealed By Canonical  Fossbytes

To help different Linux distro users see a common light, the creator of Ubuntu - Canonical - shared the data of the top 5 snaps being used across some of the ...

The OpenZFS file-system could soon be seeing better data deduplication support...

Like the mostly mundane Btrfs and XFS changes with the Linux 5.4 merge window, the EXT4 file-system activity is mostly focused on fixes too but also new debugging ioctls...

For more than five years we have been driving our technology strategy around the idea that the future of enterprise IT does not reside solely in an enterprise datacenter or in the public cloud. Instead the next wave of computing is built on a blend of these technologies and infrastructure: in short, the future is hybrid.

A Total War Saga: TROY coming to macOS and Linux in 2020  TweakTown

Thursday, 19th September, 2019 - Feral Interactive today announced that A Total War Saga: TROY, the historical strategy game inspired by the Trojan war, will ...

Haiku as the open-source operating system that still maintains BeOS compatibility continues tacking on modern features and support for software well past the days of BeOS...

Linux for ethical hackers 101  Security Boulevard

Introduction In this article, we'll discuss the Linux operating system and how it ties in with ethical hacking. We will explore the Linux distributions that have been ...

While we've known about the many features for a while if you are a faithful Phoronix reader, today the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver changes were sent in for the Linux 5.4 kernel...

Linux-powered NVR can stream and analyze 12 HD cam feeds without a cloud connection  LinuxGizmos.com

A new “Camect” camera hub and 1TB NVR that can aggregate up to 12 HD streams has funded on Indiegogo. The $279 device runs Linux on an Apollo Lake ...

How to hide and unhide files or folder on a Linux computer  H2S Media

Now, you can understand, hiding and unhiding files and folders on a Linux computer is just a piece of cake. You just need to know the command & execute it.

It's coming almost one month behind schedule, but LLVM 9.0 is out today along with the Clang 9.0 C/C++ compiler and associated sub-projects for this open-source compiler infrastructure...

Linux Container Technology Explained (Contributed)  Government Technology

State and local governments' IT departments increasingly rely on DevOps practices and agile development methodologies to improve *service* delivery and to ...

The beta release is out today for KDE Plasma 5.17...

Linux commit suggests mainstream AMD Navi GPUs will launch before October 15  PCGamesN

Trivial and urgent. That's probably not how AMD would like its upcoming Navi 12 GPUs to be referenced, but that's how its open source guru, Marek Olsak, has ...

Creative Assembly revealed Total War Saga: TROY on Wednesday for release next year. Feral Interactive has announced they are porting this latest Total War game to macOS and Linux...

A Total War Saga: TROY Seeing A Native Linux Port Next Year  Phoronix

Creative Assembly revealed Total War Saga: TROY on Wednesday for release next year. Feral Interactive has announced they are porting this latest Total War ...

Ubuntu-maker Canonical shares top 5 snaps per Linux distribution  BetaNews

All Linux users are the same, right? Oh, hell no! Linux users are a diverse bunch, with differing opinions, tastes, and personalities. In fact, that is probably a ...

Running The AMD "ABBA" Ryzen 3000 Boost Fix Under Linux With 140 Tests  Phoronix

Last week AMD's AGESA "ABBA" update began shipping with a fix to how the boost clock frequencies are handled in hopes of better achieving the rated boost ...

Last week AMD's AGESA "ABBA" update began shipping with a fix to how the boost clock frequencies are handled in hopes of better achieving the rated boost frequencies for Ryzen 3000 series processors. I've been running some tests of an updated ASUS BIOS with this adjusted boost clock behavior to see how it performs under Linux with a Ryzen 9 3900X processor.

Fine Wine: An Interview With Codeweavers About Valve, Windows And The Future Of Gaming On Linux  Forbes

What's it like working with Valve on Proton? What can Linux distro maintainers do to make life better for gamers? Codeweavers answers these questions and ...