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Coming with the imminent systemd 245 is systemd-homed that is making fundamental changes to Linux home directories. Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering presented at FOSDEM 2020 last weekend on systemd-homed and that video recording is now up...

Learn More About Systemd-Homed For How Linux Home Directories Are Being Reinvented  Phoronix

In our last article, we have discussed how to set up and run a Kubernetes Cluster, let’s discuss how we can deploy NGINX service on our cluster. I will run this deployment on a...

Maker of Linux patch batch grsecurity can't duck $260,000 legal bills, says Cali appeals court in anti-SLAPP case  The Register

Following last year's resignation of Richard Stallman from the Free Software Foundation under public pressure but remaining as head of the GNU Project for these tight-knit organizations, the two organizations have needed to figure out how to cooperate moving forward...

With the NFS client are a few new features with its code to be found in Linux 5.6...

Linux 5.6 NFS Client Adds New Option To Use Cache If NFS Server Connection Lost  Phoronix

How to use 7zip to encrypt files  TechRepublic

GNOME Shell and Mutter are out with their v3.35.90 releases today for the planned GNOME 3.36 beta...

AMD is adding a MIGraphX/ROCm back-end to Microsoft's ONNX run-time for machine learning inferencing to allow for Radeon GPU acceleration...

Firefox 72 vs. Chrome 80 Browser Performance On Ubuntu Linux With AMD Ryzen  Phoronix

Given this week's release of Google Chrome 80, here are fresh benchmarks of Chrome 80 against Firefox 72 on Linux plus also a run with Firefox's WebRender option being enabled. This round of tests was under an Ubuntu 20.04 snapshot with AMD Ryzen processor and AMD Radeon VII graphics.

A second round of KVM virtualization updates were sent out today for the Linux 5.6 merge window that is still open through the weekend...

Linux 5.6 KVM Expands AMD APIC Virtualization Support With Dynamic APICv  Phoronix

New League of Legends Anti-Cheat Will Run at Kernel Level  TechRaptor

South Korea To Switch From Windows 7 To Linux  Techworm

Mozilla developer Dzmitry Malyshau has provided an update on WGPU, their implementation of WebGPU built off GFX-RS and Rust for next-gen graphics and compute on the web...

Serious sudo flaw could be exploited to gain root access to Linux systems  BetaNews

Debian developer Mike Gabriel in cooperation with the UBports developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 are working to offer Unity 8 (and in turn, Mir) packages within Debian...

As another step towards tightening up the Linux kernel security, Intel's Kristen Carlson Accardi has proposed "FGKASLR" as a significant step forward for better enhancing the Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization...