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Purism Announces Discounts For Librem Linux Laptops  Softpedia News

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is seeing the start of improvements to enhance its Microsoft Windows debugging experience...

Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Google "Moonball" Will Be Supported By Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Some new HID device called Moonball by Google will be supported with Linux 5.7...

Going back to at least late 2017 have been proposals for Zstd-compressing the Linux kernel images for the Facebook-developed Zstandard compression algorithm. In 2020 perhaps we will finally see the support mainlined...

Zstd Compressed Linux Kernel Images Proposed Once More  Phoronix

Back in January we reported on the lead developer of the CUPS printing system quitting Apple and following that he began development of LPrint as a new label printer software solution for Linux and macOS. It turns out he has another software projects in the works too...

PAPPL Is A New Printer Application Framework Made By The Founder Of CUPS  Phoronix

Viewing and configuring password aging on Linux  Network World

Librem 5 review: The Linux-based smartphone is not close to consumer ready  TechRepublic

Gammy is an adaptive brightness application for Windows and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Here is an up-to-date look at how the very latest Mesa 20.1 Git performance is for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver both out-of-the-box and when enabling the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM. Plus there are benchmarks of the latest AMDVLK open-source AMD Vulkan driver and also when using AMDGPU-PRO's Vulkan packages that still rely upon AMD's proprietary shader compiler.

Raspberry Pi sized SBC is smallest Ryzen R1000-based model yet  LinuxGizmos.com

While the Debian 11 "Bullseye" code freeze isn't for another year, the second alpha release of the Debian Installer to ultimately provide the installation process is now available...

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support  Phoronix

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support  Phoronix

As a move ultimately for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well, Red Hat developers working on Fedora are planning to transition the RPM database (RPMDB) away from the long-standing Berkeley DB to using SQLite...

Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite  Phoronix