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IBM officially acquires Red Hat for $34 billion -- Linux distros are unaffected  BetaNews

IBM has closed its acquisition of Red Hat following the statement of intent back in October. Following the $34 billion deal, Red Hat will operate as a distinct unit ...

Mozilla rolled out Firefox 68.0 as the newest version of their web-browser...

Bolt, the Red Hat led project for managing Thunderbolt devices on Linux and their security, is out with their version 0.8 update to introduce better security for the growing number of Thunderbolt devices...

D9VK 0.13 is now available as the newest release of this project mapping Direct3D 9 atop Vulkan for accelerated Windows gaming on Linux...

The Current State Of AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs And Radeon RX 5700 GPUs On Linux  Forbes

AMD's recent loaded launch of the new 7nm Ryzen 3000 series and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards is looking strong on Windows. The tech press is praising ...

The Current State Of AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs And Radeon RX 5700 GPUs On Linux  Forbes

It's not the best month to be an early adopter on Linux. Here's what you need to know.

The GitHub account of Canonical who developed popular Ubuntu Linux was hacked  Union Journalism

A UK based private software company, Canonical Ltd's official GitHub account has been hacked recently by unknown hackers.

The Saga Of 32-Bit Linux: Why Going 64-Bit Raises Concerns Over Multilib  Hackaday

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There's always another feature to implement, ...

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What Really IRCs Me: Mastodon  Linux Journal

Learn how to use the Mastodon social network platform from the comfort of your regular IRC client. When it comes to sending text between people, I've found ...

After announcing the deal last October, IBM today closed on its acquisition of Red Hat...

Back on 7 July, the open-source Mesa RADV Vulkan driver managed to deliver launch-day Navi support for these new 7nm GPUs. That first-cut support for this "community" open-source driver was working but various optimizations and features lacking. The developers at Valve, Red Hat, and Google have continued refining this Navi/GFX10 support for RADV...

Microsoft to Join Linux Mailing List That Privately Discusses Unpatched Security Issues  WinBuzzer

Microsoft will become a member of the sought after Linux-distros mailing list, which privately discusses non-public security issues. To qualify for the membership, ...

Why Windows Shipping the Linux Kernel Changes Everything  MakeUseOf

Want to run Linux in Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux it's even easier. Here's why this is important.

For those riding the Mesa 19.1 stable release train, Mesa 19.1.2 is now available as the second point release to this quarterly update to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers for the Linux desktop...

Linux 5.2 rolls out with Sound Open Firmware and Comet Lake support  The INQUIRER

THE LATEST version of the Linux kernel, version 5.2, is now available. And we all know what that means….. ATTENTION MAGGOTS! Kernel Kitten here ...

After being delayed from earlier kernel cycles, Linux 5.3 will allow for tracking the last time a process made use of AVX-512 in order for user-space schedulers to provide better task placement...

Raspberry Pi 4 gets Kali Linux, a distro aimed at ethical hackers  TechRadar

Following hot on the heels of the Raspberry Pi 4 hitting the shelves, specialist security distro Kali Linux – which is used by ethical hackers – has been made ...

Raspberry Pi 4 gets Kali Linux, a distro aimed at ethical hackers  TechRadar

Offensive Security has moved quickly to get its specialist security distro onto the new Raspberry Pi.

LLVM's RISC-V CPU back-end has made immense progress over the past few years and now for the LLVM 9.0 release due out at the end of August or early September could become official...