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More than one month has passed since Mesa 19.1.7 compared to the usual bi-weekly release cadence, but on Monday following the closure of remaining blocker bugs, Mesa 19.1.8 was released that also ends out this release series...

Intel developers are still working on some interesting improvements to Clear Linux itself this quarter on top of keeping up to date with the latest upstream software it packages...

Clear Linux Working On A New Software Store, User Bundles Arriving Before End Of Year  Phoronix

There was a recent Khronos meet-up in Munich where Maik Klein of Embark Studios talked about their work on bringing a sub-set of the Rust programming language to Vulkan (SPIR-V) enabled GPUs...

While last week's release of Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" is new enough for Radeon RX 5700 series support with the Linux 5.3 kernel and Mesa 19.2, it doesn't actually work out-of-the-box for these Navi graphics cards...

Sadly Disney+ Won’t Work on Chromebooks, Linux, & Some Android Devices Because of DRM  Cord Cutters News, LLC

The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing  The Next Platform

Linux-powered NVR system offers up to eight PoE+ ports  LinuxGizmos.com

Samsung won't support Linux on DeX in Android 10  The INQUIRER

OmniOS Community Edition remains one of the few successful Illumos/Solaris operating systems outside Oracle. OmniOS CE r151030y was released today along with other older build updates to address the recent sudo vulnerability...

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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Firefox 70 Is Now Available to Download with Fresh New Look, Extended Dark Mode  Softpedia News

Audio capture in Linux on Chromebooks testing about to begin in Chrome OS  About Chromebooks

The Pacman 5.2 package manager for Arch Linux systems is now available with a variety of changes over earlier releases...

Arch Linux's Pacman 5.2 Released - Drops Support For Delta Packages, Adds Zstd Support  Phoronix

Linux on DeX support removed by Samsung in Android 10  Geeky Gadgets

Samsung Linux on DeX is dead, here are open source alternatives  SlashGear

1. Samsung Linux on DeX is dead, here are open source alternatives  SlashGear
2. Samsung discontinues Linux on DeX with Android 10 rollout  ZDNet
3. Samsung discontinues its Linux on DeX beta  Notebookcheck.net
4. Samsung won't support Linux on DeX in Android 10  The INQUIRER
5. Samsung is killing off Linux on DeX with Android 10 update  BetaNews
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A minor optimization was merged into GCC 10 last week for benefiting those on Arm compiling their code with the GNU Compiler Collection...

Linux Could Open The Door To Serious Attacks Over Wifi Signals  The Atoiz News