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Eric Anholt who has near single-handedly been developing the V3D driver stack (formerly known as "VC5") for use by the Raspberry Pi 4 and other newer Broadcom boards as well as maintaining the mature VC4 driver stack he developed for previous Raspberry Pi boards has left Broadcom. But Broadcom's loss is to Google's open-source gain...

TROM-Jaro: A New Twist on Open Source Freedom  LinuxInsider.com

TROM-Jaro Linux offers a new twist on the concept of open source as free software. First released as a beta version last December, TROM-Jaro's second and ...

In addition to GNOME's involvement and stewarding of the Outreachy program (back to the days when it was known as GNOME's "Outreach Program for Women"), they have just launched an Inclusion and Diversity Team to help the desktop environment community become more inclusive...

Reality 2.0 Episode 24: A Chat About Redis Labs (Podcast Transcript)  Linux Journal

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Yiftach Shoolman of Redis Labs about Redis, Open Source licenses, company culture and more. Listen to the ...

Linux Mint 19.2 is out  Ghacks Technology News

The Linux Mint team released a new version of the Linux distribution on August 2, 2019. Linux Mint 19.2 is already available in the three supported flavors ...

tomboy-ng is a note taking app for Windows, macOS and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

If you want to jot down notes quickly, you shouldn't use notepad or Wordpad in most cases. It's better to use a note taking application and there are plenty of ...

Linux Mint 19.2 released to the general public  Neowin

Linux Mint 19.2 has been made available for public use. It comes in three editions; Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. Each brings unique features suited to different ...

While this year's GCC 9 compiler release brought initial support for AMD Zen 2 processors with the Znver2 target, the support was sadly incomplete. While the GCC 9 support added some of the new instructions, it wasn't complete (such as RDPRU support remains missing) and the cost tables and scheduler model were not updated from Znver1 to account for the microarchitectural changes. Thankfully, SUSE's compiler experts recently fixed up this support for the GCC 10 compiler and more recently were able to get it back-ported for the upcoming GCC 9.2 for the Linux distributions that will upgrade to that point release. Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance impact of that updated AMD Zen 2 compiler code.

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon Now Available, IBM Has Transformed Its Software to Be Cloud-Native and Run on Any Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift, Icinga Web 2.7.0 Released, Google Rolling Out Android Auto Design Updates and Kernel 5.1 Reaches End of Life  Linux Journal

News briefs for August 2, 2019. Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon was officially released today. This is a long-term support release that will be supported until ...

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon Now Available, IBM Has Transformed Its Software to Be Cloud-Native and Run on Any Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift, Icinga Web 2.7.0 Released, Google Rolling Out Android Auto Design Updates and Kernel 5.1 Reaches End of Life  Linux Journal

News briefs for August 2, 2019. Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Cinnamon was officially released today. This is a long-term support release that will be supported until ...

Intel's open-source driver team has sent in their initial batch of kernel graphics driver changes to DRM-Next for material that will be targeting the Linux 5.4 cycle later this year...

Proven Linux OS Expanded to Aitech's Multi-core Remote I/O Subsystem  ThomasNet News

Proven Linux OS Expanded to Aitechs Multi-core Remote IO Subsystem - Aitech Defense Systems Inc.

System76 Is Launching An Insanely Powerful Linux Laptop With 4K OLED Display And Intel i9-9980HK  Forbes

System76 is poised to launch a drool-worthy mobile Linux workstation with 4K OLED display, 64GB of RAM, 8TB of storage capacity and a monster 8-core Intel ...

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" Officially Released, Here's What's New  Softpedia News

Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions are available now.

With this week's release of the Chrome 76 web browser, here are some fresh benchmarks of that latest Google web browser release compared to Firefox 68 on Ubuntu Linux...

Why I Switched From Ubuntu to Manjaro Linux  How-To Geek

For more than a decade, Ubuntu was my Linux distribution of choice. But, for the first time in a long while, I distro-hopped. I now run Manjaro and couldn't be ...

The MATE desktop environment is becoming usable on Wayland thanks to its support being provided by the Mir display stack...

Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" is now officially available in its Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce flavors while continuing to be powered off the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS base...

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce  BetaNews

Happy Friday, y'all! What a great day it is. Yesterday, System76 excited the Linux community with a new 4K OLED laptop, and now today, a major Linux ...

Proven Linux OS Expanded to Aitech's Multi-core Remote I/O Subsystem  The Chestnut Post

Chatsworth, USA, 2019-Aug-02 — /EPR Network/ — Aitech Defense Systems, Inc., a part of the Aitech Group, has ported the cost-effective, open source Linux ...