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While the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel cycle is finally bringing a driver for Microsoft exFAT file-system read/write support, it's dated on an old Samsung code drop that has seen little public work over the years. Since queued for staging-next, there has been a big uptick in clean-ups and other activity, but there also exists another alternative out-of-tree exFAT Linux driver...

An Alternative exFAT Linux File-System Driver Based On Samsung's sdFAT  Phoronix

While the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel cycle is finally bringing a driver for Microsoft exFAT file-system read/write support, it's dated on an old Samsung code drop ...

Huawei releases Linux variants of the MateBook 13, MateBook 14, and MateBook X Pro  Notebookcheck.net

Huawei has added the MateBook 13 for Linux, MateBook X Pro for Linux, and the MateBook 14 for Linux onto Vmall, the Chinese shopping site for Huawei and ...

Borislav Petkov has taken to improve the Linux kernel's memset function with it being an area previously criticzed by Linus Torvalds and other prominent developers...

Intel's speedy Clear Linux distribution could be running under the hood of your car...

PineTime is a $25 smartwatch companion for Linux smartphones (work-in-progress from Pine64)  Liliputing

The folks at Pine64 have been selling inexpensive Linux laptops for a few years, and they're getting ready to launch their first Linux smartphone. But the team ...

Linux Software Industry Growth, Shares, Opportunities and Forecast to 2019-2025  The Torn News

“Linux Software Market” report provides in depth analysis of Market Trends, Market Share, Industry Size, Growth, Opportunities. Also Linux Software market ...

While Intel CPUs aren't shipping with 5-level paging support, they are expected to be soon and distribution kernels are preparing to enable the kernel's functionality for this feature to extend the addressable memory supported. With that, the mainline kernel is also looking at flipping on 5-level paging by default for its default kernel configuration...

The Linux Kernel Is Preparing To Enable 5-Level Paging By Default  Phoronix

While Intel CPUs aren't shipping with 5-level paging support, they are expected to be soon and distribution kernels are preparing to enable the kernel's ...

KDE Frameworks 5.62 is out today as the latest monthly update to this collection of KDE libraries complementing the Qt5 tool-kit offerings...

There's an exciting patch set to GNOME Shell and Mutter now pending for finally wiring up the full-screen unredirected display / full-screen bypass compositing for helping the performance of full-screen games in particular on Wayland...

Based off yesterday's release of Wine 4.16, the Wine-Staging 4.16 update out today is more prominent with a number of new patches introduced to this experimental/testing flavor of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux...

For fans of the lightweight Slax Linux distribution, version 9.11 is now available and is re-based against upstream Debian 9.11 for this operating system that was resurrected two years ago...

In addition to the work being led by DigitalOcean on core scheduling to make Hyper Threading safer in light of security vulnerabilities, IBM and Oracle engineers continue working on Kernel Address Space Isolation to help prevent data leaks during attacks...

Kernel Address Space Isolation Still Baking To Limit Data Leaks From Foreshadow & Co  Phoronix

In addition to the work being led by DigitalOcean on core scheduling to make Hyper Threading safer in light of security vulnerabilities, IBM and Oracle engineers ...

Radeon ROCm 2.7.2 is now available as the newest update to AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Meet PineTime, A Ridiculously Affordable Companion Watch For Your Linux Smartphone  Forbes

Pine64is breaking into the watch business with #PineTime, an affordable smartwatch companion for your Linux smartphone.

Windows 10 Preview Adds Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on ARM64 Devices  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for ...

Windows 10 Preview Adds Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on ARM64 Devices  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for ...

In time for any weekend gaming, Valve's team maintaining their Proton downstream of Wine for powering Steam Play to run Windows games on Linux has issued their v4.11-4 update...