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Up until today the newest Linux kernel version supported by the official Reiser4 out-of-tree file-system driver patch was Linux 5.0, but that has now changed with the belated Linux 5.1 kernel support arriving as well as a separate patch for Linux 5.2 kernel support...

With the Raspberry Pi 4, a passive heatsink is an absolute minimum for running this new ARM SBC unless you want to deal with potentially drastic performance limitations based upon your operating conditions. However, if you will be enduring the Raspberry Pi 4 with significant load for any measurable length of time, an active cooler is almost warranted or otherwise a very capable passive cooler. In this article we're looking at the Raspberry Pi 4 performance with a Fan SHIM as an active fan designed for running on the Raspberry Pi off the GPIO pins as well as the FLIRC as a metal case that passively cools the device.

Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac is the best way to run Windows, Linux, and macOS on your Mac  ZDNet

Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac has landed, and brings with it a whole raft of cool new features.

Linux 5.3 Will Address Crackling Audio on AMD PCs  Tom's Hardware

Linux 5.3 will temporarily address issues with audio input that have affected systems that rely on AMD chipsets and Realtek audio codecs since at least 2017.

Orange Pi Zero2 mini PC supports Android & Linux, measures 2.2 inches wide  Liliputing

About three years after launching a tiny single-board computer called the Orange Pi Zero, the folks at Shenzhen Xunlong are introducing a Orange Pie Zero2 ...

Linux-driven i.MX6 gateway offers 4G plus isolated serial and CANBus  LinuxGizmos.com

Forlinx announced a compact “FCU1201” IoT gateway that runs Linux on an i.MX6 DualLite and offers 4G, WiFi/BT, LAN, CAN, HDMI, USB, serial, DIDO, and ...

NVIDIA this morning introduced their 435 Linux driver series currently in beta form with the release of the 435.17 Linux build. With this new driver comes finally the best PRIME/multi-GPU support they have presented to date...

Huawei To Help Create Nation's First Open-Source Foundation  Linux.com

Huawei Technologies Co said it plans to partner with other companies to set up China's first open-source software foundation, which is expected to begin to ...

Huawei Technologies Co said it plans to partner with other companies to set up China's first open-source software foundation, which is expected to begin to operate in a month or two to expand the nation's software community. The plan for the software foundation came after GitHub, the world's largest host of source code, prevented in July users in Iran and other nations sanctioned by the United States government from accessing portions of its service.

The Khronos Group has posted their material from the SIGGRAPH 2019 graphics conference and includes some interesting updates on Vulkan and their ongoing efforts...

Research teams from three universities recently released a dataset called ImageNet-A, containing natural adversarial images: real-world images that are misclassified by image-recognition AI. When used as a test-set on several state-of-the-art pre-trained models, the models achieve an accuracy rate of less than 3%. (Source: InfoHQ)

Nvidia Breaks Real-time Conversational AI Records | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

Nvidia's GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests has achieved some ...

Nvidia’s GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests has achieved some key milestones and broken some records that have big implications for anyone building on their tech — which includes companies large and small, as much of the code they’ve used to achieve these advancements is open source, written in PyTorch and easy to run. (Source: TechCrunch)

Kasten Raises $14 Million For App Backup And Recovery Services  Linux.com

Kasten, which bills itself as an enterprise-scale and cloud-native data management company, today announced that it's raised $14 million in series A funding led ...

Kasten, which bills itself as an enterprise-scale and cloud-native data management company, today announced that it’s raised $14 million in series A funding led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $17 million to date. CEO Niraj Tolia says the infusion will accelerate the growth of the Los Altos, California-based startup’s sales, engineering, and marketing departments and the expansion of its research and development center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

NVIDIA engineers continue to be among those in the Vulkan technical sub-group working to advance machine learning for this API...

Taashee Linux Services Joins Bright Computing Partner Program  HPCwire

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, August 13, 2019 — Today, Bright Computing, a global leader in cluster and cloud infrastructure automation software, ...

Similar to the recent upstream Linux kernel discussions over the poor Linux desktop experience when in memory pressure situations particularly with systems having limited amounts of RAM, Fedora developers are discussing ways to improve this experience as well...

Fedora Developers Discuss Ways To Improve Linux Interactivity In Low-Memory Situations  Phoronix

Similar to the recent upstream Linux kernel discussions over the poor Linux desktop experience when in memory pressure situations particularly with systems ...

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