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Following the recent hype of Intel's Windows graphics driver introducing integer mode scaling support, their open-source Linux graphics driver is receiving similar treatment with nearest-neighbor integer scaling support...

Linux Mint 19.3 Slated for Release on Christmas with HiDPI Improvements, More  Softpedia News

It will be based on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system.

Go 1.13 was released today as Google's latest update to their language and run-time/toolchain...

Google has officially released Android 10 today, what formerly was known as "Android Q" during development...

Charging Money For Linux Distros And Open Source Software? It's More Successful Than You Think  Forbes

The founder of elementary OS shares two experiences that may change how users and other Linux distributions think about donation models.

Charging Money For Linux Distros And FOSS Software? It's More Successful Than You Think  Forbes

The founder of elementary OS shares two experiences that may change how users and other Linux distributions think about donation models.

As expected after Intel provided Thunderbolt 3 to the USB Promoter Group royalty-free earlier this year, the USB 4.0 "USB4" specification was published today and indeed based on the Thunderbolt protocol specification...

Continuing on from last week's testing that found the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + ASUS CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi consuming more power on Linux compared to Windows 10, here are some additional metrics after spending a good deal of time over the weekend on further tests...

PowerTop, AMD CPUFreq CPPC & Other Power Tests From The Ryzen 9 3900X On Linux  Phoronix

Continuing on from last week's testing that found the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X + ASUS CROSHAIR VIII HERO WiFi consuming more power on Linux compared to ...

There has been a lot of talk recently of AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors reportedly not hitting their boost clock frequencies, whether stock coolers are adequate for hitting the boost frequencies, and other concerns around the boost behavior on these new Zen 2 processors. AMD issued a statement today they are rolling out a new BIOS/firmware update to help with boost clock frequency optimizations...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Adding to the growing list of features for Linux 5.4 with its cycle officially kicking off in mid-September is a kernel scheduler optimization designed to improve load balancing on AMD EPYC servers...

Oreboot has been in development for a number of months now and while at first may have sounded like a novelty downstream of Coreboot is now proving its usefulness and taking shape...

Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Linux Servers  ISBuzz News

It has been reported that a coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems. Akamai senior ...

The third and likely final development milestone release ahead of this month's Phoronix Test Suite 9.0-Asker release is now available for cross-platform, fully-automated benchmarking...

Best lightweight Linux server Distros without GUI  H2S Media

Few handfuls and best Linux distros those can be used as a lightweight and small server OS for home, office or commercial use without GUI for webserver etc.

Systemd 243 finally shipped this morning as the latest major update to this widely used Linux init system...

Linux Operating System Market Analysis & Forecast 2019|IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  League Finals

Los Angeles, United State, September 3, 2019, – – The report comes out as an intelligent and thorough assessment tool as well as a great resource that will help ...

Even as we approach 2020, many Linux distributions and various desktop programs still isn't fully optimized for today's modern HiDPI screens. Fortunately for users of Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, their next update will further improve its HiDPI support...

UPower is the abstraction layer around batteries and other power devices on Linux. Even with it being years since it was known as DeviceKit-power and seeing many 0.99 updates, the UPower 1.0 release isn't there yet but at least UPower 0.99.11 is now available as their first release since February...