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New Pocket PC handheld Linux mini PC from $199  Geeky Gadgets

The upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel cycle should bring an improvement for power management on Intel's latest-generation Ice Lake processors...

Linux 5.5 Should Bring Another Power Management Improvement For Intel Ice Lake  Phoronix

Released at the end of October was Intel's IWD 1.0 wireless daemon while hitting the web this week was version 1.1...

Following the decision by Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman to seek a general resolution over init system diversity and just how much Debian developers care about supporting systemd alternatives, the general resolution vote is moving closer...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Now Patched Against Latest Intel CPU Flaws  Softpedia News

First Major Update to Oracle Linux 8 Brings Enhanced Security, Latest Updates  Softpedia News

GCC developers recently have been discussing a new proposal over an option for preserving the command-line flags/options used when building a binary as well as the associated compiler version...

Debian GNU/Linux 10.2 "Buster" Released with More Than 100 Bug & Security Fixes  Softpedia News

Firefox vs. Chrome Browser Performance On Intel Ice Lake + Power/Memory Usage Tests  Phoronix

Using Firefox 70 (including WebRender) and Google Chrome 78, here are our latest round of Linux web browser benchmarks tested on the Dell XPS Ice Lake laptop. Making this round of Linux browser benchmarking more interesting is also including power consumption and RAM usage metrics for the different browser benchmarks.

Debian 10.2 is out this morning as the latest point release to the "Buster" series...

Wine 4.20 came out last night while out today is Wine-Staging 4.20 as this experimental blend of Wine with more than eight-hundred extra patches on top...

With a change merged Friday night for the nearly over Linux 5.4 cycle, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme 2nd Gen laptop should see better touchpad input support...

Lenovo X1 Extreme 2nd Generation To Have Better Touchpad Input On Linux 5.4  Phoronix

PinePhone “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux Smartphone is Now Available for $150  CNX Software

I recently served on a panel about growth opportunities in open source at the Open Source India conference in Bengaluru. As you might expect, my fellow panelists and I approached the topic from widely varying perspectives, and I came away with the feeling that we may have confused many in the audience rather than enlightening them.

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While most Linux gamers don't appear to be into GPU overclocking, one of the limitations of the Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" series support with the AMD open-source driver to date has been no overclocking support. With the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel that is set to change...

AMD OverDrive Overclocking To Finally Work For Radeon Navi GPUs With Linux 5.5 Kernel  Phoronix

If you are looking to monitor your system interactively, then the htop command should be one of your best options. An improvement of its predecessor top command, htop is an interactive process viewer and...