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In addition to the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver that we are hopeful could land in Linux 5.7 albeit not yet queued in the iio-next branch, another AMD driver that has been around for a few months in patch form but yet to be mainlined is the AMD PassThru DMA Engine driver...

AMD PassThru DMA Engine Driver Still Pending For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

How to reset the root password in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux  TechGenix

Coronavirus: Linux laptops and long hours helped this team switch 4,000 staff to home working  ZDNet

Dual-GbE, 24-bit DAQ system does machine monitoring on the edge  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel Core i9 10980XE: FreeBSD 12.1 vs. GhostBSD 12.02 vs. DragonFlyBSD vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks  Phoronix

Given the release earlier this month of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 along with the recent debut of the FreeBSD-based desktop-focused GhostBSD 20.02, here are benchmarks looking at their performance up against FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE as well as the current state of Ubuntu 20.04. Tests were done both with the LLVM Clang and GCC compilers.

Plasma Bigscreen Is A New Smart TV Experience Powered By Raspberry Pi 4 And KDE  Forbes

Bodhi Linux 5.1 Is Out With Latest Hardware Support And Kernel Updates  Fossbytes

Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has introduced an off-by-default option to help with the performance for at least some CAD-type applications...

AryaLinux Provides the Building Blocks for a Unique Linux Experience  LinuxInsider.com

Should you still have an HP 100BaseVG AnyLAN network adapter from the mid-to-late 90's, the mainline Linux kernel is finally preparing to eliminate its driver...

2020 Spring Cleaning: HP 100BaseVG AnyLAN Linux Network Driver Finally Getting Dropped  Phoronix

Today marks twenty-one years since the Apache Software Foundation was created out of the Apache Group and incorporated as a non-profit organization...

Modern GNU/Linux Systems Should Run Old Games: Open Source Community  Fossbytes

How Linux Helps the Fight Against the New Coronavirus  Softpedia News

After Linux Laptops Here Comes a Linux Keyboard  Softpedia News

ESET Launches Linux Antivirus Because Malware Isn't Just for Windows  Softpedia News

Joomla is a popular and widely used CMS (Content Management System) used for creating websites with little or no knowledge in markup or web programming languages. It ships with lots of PHP code, plugins,...

VirtIO-Video is a VirtIO-based video driver for a virtual V4L2 streaming device with input/output buffers for sharing of video devices with guests. VirtIO Video has existed for a while now but it looks like it could be getting close to upstreaming in the Linux kernel...