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Linux phones running postmarketOS can now run (some) Android apps thanks to Anbox  Liliputing

As part of the ZFS improvements for Ubuntu 20.04 with Canonical's Zsys initiative is the ability to automatically take snapshots on APT operations for being able to do a system rollback/revert if necessary following package management changes. I've begun trying out the ZFS/Zsys changes for Ubuntu 20.04 and so far is working well...

System76 Lemur Pro is a 2.2 pound Linux laptop with 14.1 inch screen, Intel Comet Lake  Liliputing

Linux-driven, Cortex-A72 edge computer supports up to 25GbE Ethernet  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-driven, Cortex-A72 edge computer supports up to 25GbE Ethernet  LinuxGizmos.com

Valve today released their Half-Life: Alyx virtual reality first-person shooter game and built atop their Source 2 engine...

Valve's Half-Life: Alyx Released - Linux Build Still Coming  Phoronix

First Look at the UI for resizing Linux Disk on Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

NVIDIA has released a new feature update to their Nsight Graphics standalone developer tool for debugging and profiling applications/games built atop a variety of 3D APIs...

For those stuck in home isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic, MythTV 31 has been released for any open-source DVR and HTPC needs...

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Revenue, Opportunity, Forecast and Value Chain 2025  Galus Australis

Parrot GNU/Linux 4.8 Released With Kernel 5.4 And New Docker Containers  Fossbytes

The second beta of the forthcoming Qt 5.15 tool-kit is now available for testing...

Richard Hughes of Fwupd/LVFS, PackageKit, and Colord notoriety last month announced Jcat as a new open-source project he initiated to serve as an alternative to Microsoft's Catalog files proprietary format...

Surviving the Frequency of Open Source Vulnerabilities  WIND

BleachBit 3.9.0 Beta  Neowin

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. Clear Linux On The Intel Core i9 9900KS, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X  Phoronix

While we have been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS offer better performance with newer hardware platforms, how does the performance compare to Intel's performance-optimized Clear Linux? Here are some benchmarks on both AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and Intel Core i9 9900KS systems.

More improvements were queued in recent days to sched/core of CPU scheduler improvements on the table for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle...

Linus Torvalds commented that while Linux 5.6-rc7 may be going through strange times, the Linux 5.6 kernel development is looking normal...