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Intel developers have been working on the Cloud Hypervisor that is written in Rust and built atop KVM as an open-source VMM designed for running modern cloud workloads while being focused on just supporting modern software/interfaces and relying upon para-virtualized (VirtIO) devices without legacy support. This week marked a new release of this forward-looking KVM-based hypervisor solution...

Differences between Windows and Linux operating systems. The fundamental differences that are worth knowing  H2S Media

Samsung ends Linux on DeX project eleven months after its inception  Tech Lapse

Project Trident Ditches BSD for Linux  It's FOSS

Back in February for LLVM Clang 9.0 was the initial AMD Zen 2 "znver2" enablement, but like the GCC support at the time it was the very basics. With time GCC picked up Zen 2 scheduler improvements and other work while sadly in the case of LLVM the improvements are still pending...

Samsung discontinues DeX Linux program, dropping it altogether in Android 10  Android Kenya

Unpaired Linux bug can open devices for serious attacks via Wi-Fi  gotech daily

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 to 19.10 on Windows 10 Linux subsystem  H2S Media

With the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel release there is now an exFAT file-system driver based on an old Samsung code drop of their exFAT driver support for mobile devices. This comes after Microsoft made the exFAT specification public recently and gave their blessing for a native Linux driver for the file-system. The Linux developers acknowledge though the current exFAT code is "horrible" and a "pile of crap" but is within the staging area...

Paragon Looks To Upstream Their Microsoft exFAT Driver For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Fresh off yesterday's Wine 4.18 release, Wine-Staging 4.18 is now available for those preferring the more experimental blend of Wine that incorporates various testing patches atop Wine...

Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 5.17, a new release of the independent kwin-lowlatency code has been re-based against version 5.17...

We are getting mighty close to the release of FreeBSD 12.1 as the next installment of FreeBSD 12 for 2019. It's looking like FreeBSD 12.1 will indeed be ready to set sail in early November...

While mid-way through the Linux 5.4 development cycle with RC4 due out on Sunday, a number of memory management fixes just hit the mainline kernel...

Samsung will kill Linux on Dex with the upcoming Android 10 update  MSPoweruser

Samsung is discontinuing Linux support on Dex - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com

How to install Chromium on Ubuntu using SNAP  H2S Media

Samsung Calls It Quits on the ‘Linux on DeX’ Project  Beebom

Linux 5.4 Lands A Number Of Memory Management Fixes  Phoronix

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