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Following the release of Mesa 20.0 in mid-February, the first point release to this quarter's Mesa 3D feature series is now available...

GNOME Genius, one of the oldest GNOME programs and what served as the desktop's original calculator, has finally been ported to GTK3 and seen a new release in 2020...

Zorin OS 15.2 Linux distribution is here, and you should switch from Windows immediately  BetaNews

Seco spins 3.5-inch Ryzen Embedded SBC plus a managed Linux distro  LinuxGizmos.com

Seco spins 3.5-inch Ryzen Embedded SBC plus a managed Linux distro  LinuxGizmos.com

How to install and use the NordPass password manager on Linux  TechRepublic

Three ways to install Blender 3D software on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Samba 4.12 is out this week as a big update to this prominent SMB/CIFS implementation for file exchange and printer sharing predominantly with Microsoft Windows systems...

Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support  Phoronix

Samba 4.12 Released With Performance Improvements, IO_uring Support  Phoronix

How to run parallel commands on remote servers with PSSH  TechRepublic

Lair of the Clockwork God Mac and Linux versions available now  Thumbsticks

D9VK (now part of DXVK) developer Joshua Ashton has proposed a set of patches to Wine's Vulkan library (Winevulkan) that should help with performance...

The Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali Gallium3D driver is seeing work on a new driver-specific IR and compiler back-end...

Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers  Internet

I restored a Crostini backup of Debian Stretch to Buster and it worked  About Chromebooks

BSD-focused vendor iXsystems has developed FreeNAS as their community-oriented NAS operating system while TrueNAS is what they ship on their storage solutions. FreeNAS and TrueNAS have been derived largely from the same code-base. Moving forward to TrueNAS 12.0 later this year, iXsystems is unifying FreeNAS and TrueNAS...

IOTA Foundation supported project Meta-iota achieves new progress  Crypto News Flash

LLVM 10.0 was supposed to be released at the end of February but is running slightly behind schedule and now there is a third and unscheduled final release candidate...

One of the new Intel drivers up for testing that is currently in the USB-next for the forthcoming Linux 5.7 kernel cycle is the Intel PMC Mux Control driver...