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Debian Releases New Linux Kernel Security Update for Debian 10 and Debian 9  Softpedia News

The Power Efficiency Between Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux & openSUSE Tumbleweed With CompuLab's Airtop 3  Phoronix

With CompuLab's incredibly well engineered Airtop 3 fan-less computer that is built to meet rugged industrial requirements while being loaded with an ...

With CompuLab's incredibly well engineered Airtop 3 fan-less computer that is built to meet rugged industrial requirements while being loaded with an 8-core/16-thread Xeon CPU, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics, 64GB of RAM, and NVMe solid-state storage, here is an interesting benchmark comparison of Ubuntu 19.04, Clear Linux, and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Given the interesting system under test, not only is the raw performance being looked at but also the performance-per-Watt / AC power consumption and CPU thermal differences between these Linux operating systems.

Global Linux Software Market 2019 - Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Feed Chip

The given report is an excellent research study specially compiled to provide latest insights into critical aspects of the Global Global Linux Software Market ...

After a month worth of delays, Mesa 19.2 is now officially available as the latest quarterly feature update to this collection of open-source graphics driver components...

Fwupd is gaining the ability to update firmware on Synaptics/Conexant CX audio devices commonly used by laptops...

The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now available  ZDNet

Huawei's yet another Laptop lineup joins the Linux club!  gizmochina

The ongoing trade war between China and the U.S. has left Huawei scrambling for alternative suppliers for its products. The recently announced Mate 30 series ...

The Newest Version Of Zorin OS 15 Brings Linux And Open Source To The Classroom  Forbes

The same polish and ease-of-use from Zorin OS 15 is hitting the classroom with the brand new Zorin OS Education edition.

The Newest Version Of Zorin OS 15 Brings Linux And Open Source To The Classroom  Forbes

While the Linux 5.4 merge window doesn't even end until this weekend, as is usual traditional with the DRM-Next cutoff having been weeks ago, the open-source DRM driver developers are already working on their changes for what will ultimately go into Linux 5.5. On the AMD side, the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver already has some interesting work accumulating...

While the Linux 5.4 cycle just officially began last week and its feature merge window not even over until this weekend, given there are AMD EPYC load balancing improvements and many other kernel improvements in general, I was eager to fire up the in-development kernel on the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series to see how the performance is looking...

An Early Look At The AMD EPYC Performance With The In-Development Linux 5.4 Kernel  Phoronix

While the Linux 5.4 cycle just officially began last week and its feature merge window not even over until this weekend, given there are AMD EPYC load ...

Red Hat's CentOS 8 arrives: Here's what you get with it  ZDNet

The new "free" major Linux server operating system is here.

New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream  The Register

CentOS has told devs that they can now get stuck into Stream, a new Linux distro it built with code planned for the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise ...

Arm has outlined their architecture enhancements being introduced in ARMv8.6-A as their 2019 ARMv8 architecture update...

Easily Organize And Enjoy Your Linux Game Collection With GameHub  Forbes

This week I stumbled across a terrific little app called GameHub, and if you find yourself with a large collection of games across services like GOG, Humble ...

On top of many other changes for Fedora Workstation 31, this next release of Fedora Linux continues to improve the experience for proprietary multimedia codecs where the patents have lapsed...

The WireGuard open-source secure network tunnel won't be mainlined for Linux 5.4 but there finally is an action plan for getting this promising network security tech into the kernel...

The Qt Company has announced the availability of the Qt 5.14 Alpha release ahead of this half-year tool-kit update due out before year's end. Qt 5.14 is also the second to the last in the Qt5 series with an increasing amount of work shifting to Qt6 that is expected to debut towards the end of 2020...