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Since this summer Intel open-source engineers have been working on adding ACPI Error Disconnect Recover (EDR) support to the Linux kernel and this week marks the eleventh revision to the kernel support for this new ACPI feature...

Intel Continues Prepping ACPI Error Disconnect Recover Support For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Early on in the Linux 5.5 cycle during the merge window we saw some wild swings in performance including some positive gains but also performance regressions. Given last weekend's Linux 5.5-rc3 release having merged some scheduler fixes and other fallout from early on in Linux 5.5, I was curious to see if those regressions have been addressed... Sadly, they are not...

Linux 5.5-rc3 Benchmarks Are Still Pointing To Slips In Performance  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 5.3 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.4  Softpedia News

How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag.com

Gentoo-based Calculate Linux 20 now available for download  BetaNews

Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver has long been about running OpenGL on GPUs as a software fallback / debug path but as of this morning in Mesa 20.0-devel there is now the experimental ability of having OpenCL support making use of OpenCL "Clover" with NIR for CPU-based execution...

Following Richard Stallman being ousted from the Free Software Foundation, the FSF was said to be re-evaluating its relationship with the GNU while R.M.S. said no radical changes are expected. Now a group of GNU maintainers have laid out some of their desires for improving the interactions between the GNU and FSF...

The Linux 4.8 series is over three years old while now the DragonFlyBSD crew has pulled in the Linux 4.8.17 sources of the Intel "i915" DRM driver into their kernel for providing updated graphics driver coverage...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17  Phoronix

One of the few still maintained Linux distributions derived from Gentoo is Calculate Linux, which saw a new release today in preparing for the new year...

Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support  Phoronix

Ryuk Ransomware spares Windows Linux installs  TechRadar

As we enter 2020, Debian remains one of the oldest Linux distributions out there and over the 2010s continued advancing quite well for being volunteer-led and competing with the corporate heavyweights like Ubuntu, Red Hat, and SUSE. Debian in the 2010s found itself being used as the basis for Valve's SteamOS, continuing to be integral to the success of Ubuntu, it ultimately decided to make use of systemd, there were various desktop changes, and multiple successful releases of Debian GNU/Linux to celebrate...

Debian's Excitement In The 2010s From Big Releases To Systemd Usage To Powering SteamOS  Phoronix

Google Chrome on Linux reportedly freezing after version 79 update  PiunikaWeb

Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'  The Register

This has been a fantastic year for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and the world of DevOps. Opensource.com authors shared how they're moving toward agile and scrum as they focus on seamless, flexible, and scalable deployments. Here are some of the big themes in the CI/CD articles we published this year.

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The principle of least surprise is a guideline when designing user interfaces. It says that when the user performs an action, the program should do whatever would surprise the user the least. This is for the same reason kids love reading the same book over and over again: there is nothing more comforting to people than the ability to predict and have those predictions come true.

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