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Raven Ridge APUs brought the DCN 1.0 "Display Core Next" engine, Navi GPUs upped that to a DCN 2.0 implementation for the display engine, and now the Renoir APUs are ushering in DCN 2.1. This is a bit interesting particularly with Renoir being a Vega-based GPU and not Navi as one would have hoped prior to the Vega confirmation in the earlier patches...

HP Linux Imaging & Printing Drivers Now Support Linux Mint 19.2 and Debian 10  LXer

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) initiative has released a new version of their drivers for HP printers and scanner to support them on Linux-based ...

Microsoft Wants exFAT in Linux Kernel, Opens File System Specs  BleepingComputer

Microsoft announced today that it supports the inclusion of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) file system for USB flash drives and SD cards in the Linux ...

Virglrenderer 0.8 was released last week as one of the components to the "Virgl" graphics stack for getting OpenGL acceleration working within KVM+QEMU guests that is in good enough shape for handling relatively recent GL/GLES Linux games and other workloads...

Microsoft brings its ubiquitous exFAT file system to Linux  SiliconANGLE News

In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software ...

Microsoft's "Philanthropic" Services Continue exFAT File System To Make Its Way On Linux Kernel  Appuals

We know that quite recently, Microsoft has shown its willingness to work with its rival companies. They already reached out to Sony and Nintendo to share.

The Librem 5 smartphone is still advertised as shipping in Q3'2019 though it looks next to impossible with just one month left in the quarter. Purism CTO Nicole Faerber presented at CCC's Camp 2019 and the phone wasn't demoed but pictures of the Librem 5 PCB were on display...

Cloud-based OTA manager for IoT is now free for up to three Linux devices  LinuxGizmos.com

UpSwift is offering a free lifetime subscription to makers and developers who want to manage up to three Linux-based devices with the UpSwift cloud-based IoT ...

Just last month Microsoft was roped back into the discussion of exFAT support for Linux with an independent user looking to have Samsung's exposed exFAT open-source driver merged. That didn't happen yet, but Microsoft today published the exFAT file-system specifcation and is encouraging support for Linux...

Microsoft wants to bring exFAT to the Linux kernel  TechCrunch

ExFAT, the Extended File Allocation Table, is Microsoft's file system for flash drives and SD cards, which launched in 2006. Because it was proprietary, mounting ...

1. Microsoft to Bring exFAT Support to the Linux Kernel  Thurrott.com
2. Microsoft wants to bring exFAT to the Linux kernel  TechCrunch
3. Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source  ZDNet
4. Microsoft makes exFAT available for inclusion into the Linux kernel  OnMSFT
5. Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec, now supports popping it in the Linux kernel  The Register
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HP Linux Imaging & Printing Drivers Now Support Linux Mint 19.2 and Debian 10  Softpedia News

HP Linux Imaging & Printing 3.19.8 now available to download.

Microsoft supports addition of Microsoft’s exFAT file system to the Linux kernel  MSPoweruser

Microsoft's exFAT file system used in Windows supports many types of storage devices like SD Cards and USB flash drives. Most of the storage devices support ...

GNOME Wants to Make Linux Firmware Updates Easier to Deploy with New Tool  Softpedia News

GNOME Firmware Updater will be integrated in GNOME desktop.

It's been over one year since the introduction of the Mozilla Thunderbird 60.0 series while today Thunderbird 68.0 was made as the next official update...

BlackArch Linux Ethical Hacking OS Adds over 150 New Tools in Latest Release  Softpedia News

BlackArch 2019.09.01 is now available to download.

A Linux-to-Cloud IoT Solution the Microsoft Way  Electronic Design

Avnet has developed an end-to-end IoT solution that revolves around MediaTek's MT3620 running Microsoft's Azure Sphere OS.

Linux on Chromebooks getting Ansible integration for enterprise package management  About Chromebooks

Now that Linux on Chromebooks is available for the enterprise, how do IT admins plan to manage this feature? Recent code commits suggest that Red Hat ...

After learning of the UP-Squared SBC maker board this summer when this Intel Apollolake single board computer was added to Coreboot, the company sent over a review sample and for the past number of weeks have been putting this mini board through its paces and performance tests.

Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source  ZDNet

For years, Microsoft has profited from its FAT file system patents. Now the company is making it explicit that it's freeing its remaining exFAT patents for Open ...