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Blender 2.80 made its hugely anticipated debut just under one month ago while already Blender 2.81 is looking interesting and will hopefully be out in November...

Netrunner 19.08 "Indigo" was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this KDE-focused desktop Linux distribution...

Yesterday we shared that Mesa 19.2's release process would finally be getting underway with the first release candidate expected today following the code branching. Sure enough, that process began but now prominent Intel open-source graphics developer Jason Ekstrand is looking to get the OpenGL 4.6 support into this release...

In addition to the news out of the OpenPOWER Summit in San Diego that the POWER ISA is going open-source and the OpenPOWER Foundation becoming part of the Linux Foundation, Raptor Computing Systems shared they plan to launch a new standard ATX motherboard next year that will feature OpenCAPI connectivity...

A guided tour of Linux file system types  Network World

Linux file systems have evolved over the years, and here's a look at file system types and important directories.

Rugged, Kaby Lake-U based IoT gateway offers Linux BSP  LinuxGizmos.com

Advantech's Linux-ready, DIN-rail mounted “ICO500-518” IoT gateway runs on 7th Gen Core U-series CPUs and provides swappable SATA, 4x USB 3.0, 2x GbE ...

This week marks one year since Valve rolled out their Proton beta for Steam Play to allow Windows games to gracefully run on Linux via this Wine downstream catered for Steam Linux gaming. It's been crazy since then with all of Valve's continued work on open-source graphics drivers, adding the likes of FAudio and D9VK to Proton, continuing to fund DXVK development for faster Direct3D-over-Vulkan, and many other infrastructure improvements and more to allow more Windows games to run on Linux and to do so well and speedy...

While we haven't heard anything yet about Oracle's plans for Solaris post-11.4 whether that means Solaris 11.4 or the reportedly killed Solaris 12, Oracle today did release Solaris 11.4 Stable Release Update 12 as their newest installment for their supported Solaris operating system release...

IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation  TechCrunch

IBM makes the Power Series chips, and as part of that has open sourced some of the underlying technologies to encourage wider use of these chips. The open ...

The big POWER announcement appears to be that the POWER instruction set architecture is being contributed to the open-source community and the OpenPOWER Foundation is becoming part of the Linux Foundation...

Chrome OS 77 to bring Crostini (Linux beta) to Chromebook Pixel 2015, other older devices  About Chromebooks

Still rocking a Chromebook Pixel 2015 or other device from around that era? You've been missing out on Linux apps but that's about to change with Chrome OS ...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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The long-running Linux "Lockdown" patches were sent out again overnight for their 40th time but it remains to be seen if these security-oriented patches will be pulled in for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...

Turn your Xbox console into a home PC with this guide  Windows Report

In order to Turn Xbox into PC, you will need a set of items including: Mechassault software, and a compatible version of Linux.

The GNU toolchain has already been preparing for Cooperlake CPUs as the successor to Cascadelake as well as supporting the new instruction set extensions, but finally today the support for -march=cooperlake was merged to GCC 10 for conveniently exposing the new CPU target in the GNU Compiler Collection. At the same time, -march=tigerlake was also added...

Linux Software Market Is Booming Worldwide | Top key Players Like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  Indian Columnist

“A new report as an Linux Software market that includes a comprehensive analysis of the global market. This includes investigating past progress, ongoing ...

On Chromebooks when moving to the latest Chrome OS that switches over to a Linux 4.19 based kernel, BFQ has become the default I/O scheduler...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

Get started with Linux containers in Docker on WSL 2  InfoWorld

When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern ...

I installed five flavours of Linux on my new laptop: One month on, here's what I've learned  ZDNet

Using Linux on a laptop used to be so tricky and tedious: that's clearly no longer the case.