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Earlier this week as part of his series of pull requests, Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted the USB subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.5 kernel...

Wine 4.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release as the feature freeze approaches for the Wine 5.0 release in early 2020...

checkra1n on Linux nearing release, Apple TV DFU helper coming too  PiunikaWeb

OSGeoLive Distro Opens Doors to Geospatial Worlds  LinuxInsider.com

Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10  BleepingComputer

Linux Kernel 5.4 Gets First Point Release, It's Now Ready for Mass Deployments  Softpedia News

Exton|OS Distro Is Now Based on Ubuntu 19.10 and Ships with Linux Kernel 5.4  Softpedia News

Systemd has a present for you with a new release that comes bearing more features for this Linux init system...

Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X  Phoronix

The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is performing faster on Linux than Microsoft Windows 10. When carrying out more than 80 different tests on Windows 10 compared to five Linux distributions, Windows 10 was beat out by the open-source competition. However, the performance loss for Windows isn't as dramatic as we have seen out of earlier generations of Ryzen Threadripper HEDT workstations. Here are those benchmarks of Windows 10 compared to Ubuntu 19.10, CentOS 8, Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation 31, and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Linux phones need to succeed and it isn’t just about privacy  SlashGear

Master the essentials of CentOS and Red Hat Linux and get certified  TechSpot

As we've known for a long time, VirtIO-GPU / Virgl Vulkan support to allow accelerated Vulkan within virtual machines is in the works but still has a long road ahead. A number of other VirtIO-GPU features are also in the works or at least planning stages...

When X.Org Server 1.21 finally lands those relying upon XWayland for running various Linux games should find less (or ideally, none at all) stuttering or tearing...

Reported on earlier this month is the decision by Linux kernel developers to disable HPET for Intel Coffee Lake systems. The High Precision Event Timer was being disabled since on some Coffee Lake systems at least this timer skews when entering the PC10 power state and that makes the time-stamp counter unstable...

The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For More Platforms - Including Ice Lake  Phoronix

This tiny handheld laptop with QWERTY keyboard boots Android and Linux  Techworm

The Cedrus video decode driver developed by Bootlin after successful crowdfunding for creating an open-source Linux video decoder for Allwinner SoCs now has H.265 support!..

The Allwinner "Cedrus" Video Decoder Supports H.265 On Linux 5.5  Phoronix

In software terms, especially at the operating system level, a port is a logical construct that identifies a specific process/application or a type of network service and each network service running on a Linux...