Open-source News

Linux 5.5 officially released with a couple of hardware improvements  Gizchina.com

Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki is punctual as always in sending in his feature pull requests for the new merge window...

Power Management + ACPI Updates Submitted For The Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

In the words of the National Cyber Security Alliance, Data Privacy Day "is an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust."

Data privacy should be at the forefront of everyone's mind.  Protecting your personal data and understanding your right to privacy is becoming more and more important as we start to understand how valuable personal data is and how we are all accountable for protecting our privacy.

Rocket League--Owners Of Unsupported Mac And Linux Versions Can Get A Refund Through Steam  GameSpot

Rocket League Ends Online Multiplayer Support For Linux, macOS Devices  Ubergizmo

Unfortunately it wasn't a trouble-free experience at launch but with time Raven Ridge APUs have been getting cleaned up on Linux for a pleasant experience, thanks in part to the Google Chromebook play that has also seen these newer AMD APUs seeing HDCP content protection support and PSP / TEE trusted execution functionality...

Rocket League Mac, Linux support will end in March  Stevivor

SELinux maintainer Paul Moore sent in the Security Enhanced Linux updates for the 5.6 merge window, which amounts to "one of the bigger SELinux pull requests in recent years."..

SELinux For 5.6 Kernel Sees Largest Change Set In A While  Phoronix

Data Telemetry Across Mac, Windows, & Linux  Security Boulevard

Linux on Chrome OS: Disk resizing and custom username now working in Canary Channel  Chrome Unboxed

Rocket League offers Mac and Linux refunds, explains platform shutdowns  Polygon

Chrome OS 81 to allow Linux username selection for Crostini  About Chromebooks

The FreeBSD project has issued their last quarterly status update for 2019...

Rocket League players on Mac and Linux get refunds after dropped support  Shacknews

Linux 5.5 SSD RAID 0/1/5/6/10 Benchmarks Of Btrfs / EXT4 / F2FS / XFS  Phoronix

Refunds now available for Rocket League on macOS and Linux  MSPoweruser

Last month were benchmarks of RAID benchmarks on four hard drives in not visiting the Linux HDD RAID performance in a while. Stemming from that article were requests of fresh tests of the SSD RAID performance on Linux 5.5 Git, so here are those results for single drive performance and RAID0 / RAID1 / RAID5 / RAID6 / RAID10.

Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance  Phoronix