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With the recently released Linux 5.5 and its new features, one of the prominent changes on the storage front was the Btrfs file-system picking up new "RAID1C3" and "RAID1C4" modes for allowing either three or four copies of RAID1 data across more drives to potentially allow up to three of four drives to fail in a RAID1 array while still being able to recover that data for this file-system with its native RAID capabilities...

Making Use Of Btrfs 3-Copy/4-Copy Support For RAID1 With Linux 5.5+  Phoronix

Navigating man pages in Linux  Network World

Instantly Terminate Mac, Windows, & Linux User Access  Security Boulevard

Now that the merge window is over for Linux 5.6, where the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver managed GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" series accelerated support, a new feature addition landed Monday in the Nouveau kernel development tree for the next cycle...

NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7  Phoronix

NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7  Phoronix

WireGuard will make your VPN connection much faster — here's how  Tom's Guide

While not yet suitable for gamers or serious end usage, the Radeon "R600" Gallium3D driver that supports the Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 (pre-GCN) graphics cards now has an experimental NIR back-end...

For those still fond of the GNOME 2 desktop environment, the MATE Desktop Environment that's been living on as a continuation fork of GNOME2 is out with its version 1.24 update...

For those that may be looking to run an air-cooled AMD Ryzen 9 3950X especially in a rack-mount 4U chassis, here are some recent results I did from some testing using a Noctua NH-U9S with two 92mm fan configuration. Additionally, these results contain performance metrics from both CPUFreq Ondemand vs. Performance governors as an additional point of interest...

South Korea's government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop  ZDNet

While there are a lot of new end-user features with Linux 5.6, there are also some changes not yet mainlined. Here are six that come to mind as missing out on the Linux 5.6 merge window...

Linux-based Windows 12 Lite is '3x faster than Windows 10' and 'immune from ransomware'  BetaNews

For those using OpenBLAS as your BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) implementation, OpenBLAS 0.3.8 was released this weekend and coming with it are more AVX2/AVX-512 kernels and other optimizations...

AMD this morning announced the Radeon Pro W5500 as their latest workstation graphics card designed for modern design and engineering needs...

While there are many new features in the forthcoming Linux 5.6 kernel, the ongoing Address Space Isolation support is not one of them...

Address Space Isolation For The Linux Kernel Is Still A Big Challenge In 2020  Phoronix

Linux 5.6 is a feature-packed update that brings the best of Nvidia and AMD  TechRadar India

The Outreachy application period opened at the end of January for their summer 2020 internship round while just two weeks remain to get in your applications should you looking to be getting involved with open-source/Linux development...