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While most major hardware vendors have been adopting LVFS+Fwupd for firmware updating on Linux, Linux PC vendor System76 has notably been absent from the party for a variety of reasons. Today they announced their new Firmware Manager project that bridges the gap between their lack of LVFS support and their own hosted firmware service...

Rust will offer refunds as they stop shipping Linux client  Rock Paper Shotgun

Multiplayer survival game Rust will soon stop shipping its Linux client and offer refunds to those who have played using it. They've penned a blog post ...

Git 2.23 was released on Friday with more than 500 changes on top of the previous release...

Re-based against yesterday's Wine 4.14 release, Wine-Staging 4.14 is now available with nearly 850 extra patches...

Skype Insider update brings back Split View mode on Windows, Mac, and Linux  OnMSFT

A recent update to the Skype Insider app for Windows, Mac, and Linux has brought back the Split View Mode that used to be available in the now deprecated ...

10 Best Terminal emulators for Linux that are worth giving a try  H2S Media

Terminal emulator on a Linux system does not need any introduction. It is one of the most important tools in a Linux system, all users know about. The Terminal ...

Back in May we wrote about Oracle's initial plans for introducing an eBPF back-end to GCC 10 to allow this GNU compiler to target this general purpose in-kernel virtual machine. Up to this point LLVM Clang has been the focused compiler for eBPF but those days are numbered with Oracle on Friday pushing out the newest GCC patches...

The next Linux kernel version will expose the real-time sources of what's keeping the system awake via Sysfs compared to existing source information that previously was only available via DebugFS...

It's a pity there doesn't seem to be any new adoption of Unigine as a game engine, but this visually impressive platform does continue seeing much success in the area of industrial simulations, professional VR platforms, and related areas. With Unigine 2.9 this Linux-friendly graphics engine is even more stunning...

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look two new powerful data visualization tools, Nvidia open sourcing GPU documentation, exciting new tooling to secure firmware for self-driving cars, and more!

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When you try to shoehorn an idea, approach, or code into a situation that's not expecting it, you get surprising and fun results.

In his Lightning Talk at the 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 17x), "Writing Kubernetes controllers 'the wrong way' is still useful," sysadmin Chris McEniry shares his experience with an out-of-cluster etcd-controller.

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Wine 4.14 was released earlier today as the newest bi-weekly point release for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

Wine 4.14 Released With The Latest Bits For Running Windows Games/Programs On Linux  Phoronix

Wine 4.14 was released earlier today as the newest bi-weekly point release for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems.

Slackel Linux Works Well Inside Its Openbox  LinuxInsider.com

The latest release of Slackel Linux renews and improves the mashup of Slackware and Salix built around an Openbox pseudo desktop environment. Slackel 7.2 ...

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases  Softpedia News

Canonical released major Linux kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating system series to address dozens of security vulnerabilities affecting all ...

Powerful Linux Instant massaging program in 2019  TechFunnel

Are there Linux instant messaging programs with Linux systems? If your operating systems run on Linux, check out this list of instant messaging software.

Powerful Linux Instant massaging program in 2019 | Techfunnel  TechFunnel

Are there Linux instant messaging programs with Linux systems? If your operating systems run on Linux, check out this list of instant messaging software.

Linux 5.4 is set to remove the Intel IOP33X and IOP13XX series of processors that are part of the company's former XScale product line for ARM-based CPUs...

Linux 5.4 Set To Remove Intel XScale IOP33X/IOP13XX CPU Support  Phoronix

Linux 5.4 is set to remove the Intel IOP33X and IOP13XX series of processors that are part of the company's former XScale product line for ARM-based CPUs.

In addition to AMD releasing the Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q3 Linux driver, they also quietly released a new Radeon Software Linux driver release for consumer GPUs...