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Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"  Phoronix

Linux 5.7-rc3 Kernel Released: "In A World Gone Mad, The Kernel Looks Almost Boringly Regular"  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel...

Manjaro 20.0 "Lysia" is out today with its flagship Xfce spin as well as its GNOME and KDE editions for this popular, desktop-minded, Arch-based Linux distribution...

Linux on Ancient Windows XP Laptop Shows Old Hardware Doesn't Have to Die  Softpedia News

Linux-Based Windows XP for Raspberry Pi Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

With the Raptor Blackbird popular among open-source enthusiasts for a libre 64-bit Linux desktop compute and that getting more POWER9 hardware out in the wild, more users are interested in seeing Wine work for 64-bit POWER hardware. Last year was some early porting work done by Raptor Computing Systems but now a cleaned up patch series has been sent out with this very primitive PPC64 work...

Wine Patches Cleaned Up, Out For Review On Very Early POWER 64-Bit Support  Phoronix

Assessing the Fallout From the Coronavirus Pandemic – Linux-based Set Top Box Market Highlighting Regional Revenue Share Dominance During 2019-2025  Latest Herald

WSLFetch creates colorful Windows 10 WSL Linux information  BleepingComputer

Going on since 2016 has been the long-running effort getting the Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support into the mainline Linux kernel. Sent out this week was the SGX foundation patches for the twenty-ninth time as it works to get into shape for upstream acceptance...

Intel SGX Enclaves Support For Linux Sent Out For A 29th Time  Phoronix

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Overview, Top Companies, Region, Application and Global Forecast by 2026  Latest Herald

Switching from MacBook to Chromebook: Is Chrome OS good enough?  Android Police

Some news that went seemingly unreported at large this month until stumbling across it... AMD has joined the Academy Software Foundation as a premier member. This joint initiative between the Linux Foundation and Academy of Motion Picture Arts is focused on pushing open-source software through the motion picture and content creation industries. Additionally, the Open Shading Language has become a new hosted project under the Academy Software Foundation...

AMD Joins The Academy Software Foundation, Open Shading Language Becomes Hosted Project  Phoronix

Btrfs Authenticated File-System Support Looks To Be Revived  Phoronix

Last year a SUSE developer sent out a set of patches adding authentication support to the Btrfs file-system. Btrfs already has checksums on meta-data blocks and data blocks while the original implementation of these authentication patches was performing HMAC on a SHA256 checksum as a keyed hash. A proper key in turn is then needed to mount a verified file-system...

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One of the areas being worked on upstream recently for the RISC-V architecture's Linux kernel support is EFI handling. The preliminary work for supporting EFI on RISC-V is set to land for the Linux 5.8 kernel...