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Nvidia Releases New Linux Graphics Driver with Many Improvements and Bug Fixes  Softpedia News

Nvidia 435.21 graphics driver now available to download.

ExTiX 19.8 "The Ultimate Linux System" Ditches Ubuntu & Debian for Deepin Linux  Softpedia News

GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX "The Ultimate Linux System" operating system with a *fresh* new base and updated ...

Microsoft Will Publish exFAT Spec, but Linux Devs Aren't Happy  ExtremeTech

Microsoft has announced that it will publish the technical implementation details of the exFAT standard and allow support to be integrated into the Linux kernel at ...

Microsoft Will Publish exFAT Specification, But Linux Devs Aren't Happy  ExtremeTech

Microsoft has moved to publish the exFAT standard, clearing the way for driver code inclusion in the Linux kernel. Some ...

Frequently brought up following our various Ryzen 3000 "Zen 2" benchmarks like the Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Core i9 9900K gaming benchmarks is how the Ryzen 9 3900X is pulling considerably more power than the similarly equipped Intel Core i9 system and those numbers are higher than what is often cited by Windows reviewers as the difference. I've begun investigating that power difference and indeed quite quickly could see Linux power usage being higher than Windows 10...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Power Usage Is Running Measurably Higher On Linux Than Windows  Phoronix

Frequently brought up following our various Ryzen 3000 "Zen 2" benchmarks like the Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Core i9 9900K gaming benchmarks is how the Ryzen 9 ...

A Linux Noob Reviews: The MX Linux 18.3 'Continuum' Installer  Forbes

It's fast and has a few welcome surprises. If my first taste of MX Linux is anything to go by, this really could be the distro my community describes as 'Debian done ...

Waypipe is off to the races as the newest network transparency effort in the Wayland space. Waypipe provides a network transparent Wayland proxy for running native Wayland programs/games over a network similar to X11's capabilities and forwarding X over an SSH connection...

Linux Software 2019 Global Market – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts 2023  EIN News

WiseGuyReports.Com Publish a New Market Research Report On –“ Linux Software 2019 Global Market – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts ...

Nearly three years to the day since the release of CUPS 2.2, the release of CUPS 2.3 that had been delayed more than one year is now available...

The Fairphone 3 made its formal announcement this week with pre-orders beginning and plans to begin shipping in mid-October. The Fairphone 3 is the latest iteration for this phone design that is focused on social values / ethical manufacturing, the longevity of the phone, and modular replacement parts...

1. Microsoft Wants eXFAT in the Linux Kernel, the File System Specs Are Opened  X Herald
2. Microsoft Will Publish exFAT Spec, but Linux Devs Aren't Happy  ExtremeTech
3. Paragon Software now supports new Linux Kernel 5.2  KMWorld Magazine
4. Microsoft to Support exFAT File System in Linux, Releases exFAT Specification  CNX Software
5. Global Linux Operating System Market Analysis by SWOT, Investment, Future Growth and Major Key Players 2019 to 2024  Market Research Time
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Microsoft Wants eXFAT in the Linux Kernel, the File System Specs Are Opened  X Herald

Microsoft reported today that it underpins the incorporation of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) record framework for USB blaze drives and SD cards in ...

Microsoft to Support exFAT File System in Linux, Releases exFAT Specification  CNX Software

Microsoft has announced plans to support exFAT in Linux, and already releases exFAT specification, and submitted patchsets to the Linux kernel.

Linux runs almost everything these days, but many people are not aware of that. Some might be aware of Linux and might have heard that this operating system runs supercomputers. According to Top500, Linux now powers the five-hundred fastest computers in the world. Go to their site and search for "Linux" to see the results for yourself.

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If you spend most of your day staring into a terminal, it's only natural that you want it to look pleasing. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and terminals have come a long way since the days of CRT serial consoles. So, the chances are good that your software terminal window has plenty of options to theme what you see—however you define beauty.

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I work remotely and have done so on and off for a good percentage of the past 10 to 15 years. I'm lucky that I'm in a role where this suits my responsibilities, and in a company that is set up for it. Not all roles—those with many customer onsite meetings or those with a major service component—are suited to remote working, of course. But it's clear that an increasing number of organisations are considering having at least some of their workers doing so remotely.

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AMD developers have sent out their latest open-source Linux patches doing their kernel driver share for enabling High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) support for version 1.4 and newer...

A Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name...

Endless Grants $5,00000 Fund To GNOME Foundation's Coding Education Challenge  It's FOSS

The GNOME foundation recently announced the "Coding Education Challenge", which is a three-stage competition to offer educators and students the ...