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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...

The SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) pull requests to the Linux kernel normally don't get us excited, but they do when it comes with word of big performance enhancements. There are several SPI performance improvements this round but exciting us the most is the work done on the Broadcom SPI driver for Raspberry Pi hardware...

Moving towards their oneAPI beta release next quarter, the Intel developers are as busy as ever advancing their LLVM-based SYCL compiler and run-times for Windows and Linux...

CentOS is a free and open-source, community-driven Linux distribution based on the popular security-focused Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was designed to be consistent rolling-release distro joined with Red Hat but still independent from...

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future  The Register

All Systems Go Systemd inventor Lennart Poettering told the crowds at the All Systems Go Linux user-space event in Berlin he intends to reinvent home ...

In the future, all the information you need will be just one gesture away, and it will all appear in midair as a hologram that you can interact with even while you're driving your flying car. That's the future, though, and until that arrives, we're all stuck with information spread across a laptop, a phone, a tablet, and a smart refrigerator. Unfortunately, that means when we need information from a device, we generally have to look at that device.

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System administrators (sysadmins) waste thousands of hours each year on repetitive tasks. Fortunately, web apps, built using open source tools, can automate a significant portion of that pain away.

For example, it takes only about a day to build a web app using Python and JavaScript to reclaim some of that time. Here is the core structure that any web application must have:

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AMDGPU Linux 5.5 Changes Being Prepped With HDCP Support, LRU Bulk Moves Re-Enabled  Phoronix

WireGuard Will Port To Existing Linux Crypto API In Order To Make It In The Kernel  Phoronix

The second article in this series demonstrated how to implement the logic for determining whether it's daylight or nighttime in a home automation system (HAS) application that controls locking and unlocking a cat door. This third article explains how to write code to use that logic in an application that locks a door at night and unlocks it during daylight hours.

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IOTA {MIOTA} Foundation teams up with Linux; may facilitate mainstream interest  OBN

IOTA is ranked at #16 above Dash but underneath Huobi Token in the market. The price declined at a rate of 11.73% in the course of the past 24-hours. This led ...