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Different ways you can check the CentOS version, and the Linux kernel version that you are using  H2S Media

Michigan Tech just launched opensource.mtu.edu, a virtual one-stop free shop for all things open source on campus. According to their site, Tech Today:

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Cancel culture taints The Linux Foundation, developer publicly disinvited from event over political opinions  Reclaim The Net

Besides X-Plane being one of the most realistic PC-based flight simulators, this flight simulator from Laminar Research has long supported Linux. Out this weekend is X-Plane 11.40 as the latest update and the last major release before they roll-out their long-awaited Vulkan graphics API support...

Longtime Linux-Friendly X-Plane Flight Simulator Sees v11.40 Released  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 19.10 bringing some CPU/system performance changes compared to earlier Ubuntu releases as a result of compiler/toolchain upgrades, the newer kernel, and more, here is a quick weekend look at how the Ubuntu 19.10 performance compares across ten different AMD Ryzen and Intel Core systems...

How to install Docker CE on MX Linux  H2S Media

As an alternative to PulseAudio's existing RTP implementation, a new GStreamer-based Real-Time Transport Protocol has been introduced...

Taking place this past week in San Francisco was the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. As usual, Matthew Ahrens as the co-founder of Sun ZFS and current OpenZFS contributor at Delphix talked about the state of the open-source ZFS efforts in his keynote...

OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS  Phoronix

Among other EXT4 file-system changes en route for the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel is a new direct I/O read implementation...

Musikcube is a terminal music player for Windows, macOS and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Coming out Friday night was a series to address a "critical" scheduler issue with the Linux kernel...

Linux Sees Fix For "Critical" Scheduler Bug Introduced A Few Months Ago  Phoronix

While the Linux 5.4 cycle is quickly winding down and with DRM-Next's cut-off crossing, AMD has sent in a last minute batch of changes it's targeting for the upcoming Linux 5.5 merge window...

AMD Volleys Another Batch Of Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.5  Phoronix

Intel's HMEM DAX driver is being added to Linux 5.5 for use-cases like their Optane DC Persistent Memory...

HMEM Device Driver Coming For Linux 5.5  Phoronix

Rav1e has been in development for more than one year now as the "safest and fastest AV1 encoder" thanks to being written in Rust while now their first official release is available...

How to install MX Linux on VirtualBox VM  H2S Media