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Canonical Is At Around 437 Employees, Pulled In $99M While Still Operating At A Loss

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2019 - 07:38
In addition to this week being exciting for the Ubuntu 19.10 release due out on Thursday followed by the kicking off of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" cycle, Ubuntu maker Canonical coincidentally made their financial statement filings in the UK this week where they are headquartered that gives a fresh look at their financial performance ahead of a possible IPO in the next few years...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Codenamed The Focal Fossa, Arriving On 23 April

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2019 - 06:00
With Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" releasing tomorrow (17 October), development is about to kick-off for the next Ubuntu development cycle under the codename Focal Fossa...

Intel Now Aiming For Gallium3D OpenGL Default For Mesa 20.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2019 - 02:50
While we had been eager for Intel's goal of defaulting to their new Gallium3D OpenGL Linux driver by EOY2019, it looks like that is going to swing by one quarter with the plan now for Mesa 20.0 at the end of Q1...

Purism Shares More Photos Of Initial Librem 5 Phones, PureOS UI

Phoronix - Thu, 10/17/2019 - 00:24
Now with more Librem 5 smartphones from their first batch now shipping, Purism has begun sharing more photos of the current hardware as well as the state of their Linux-based PureOS software stack...

A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2019 - 23:00
For those thinking of playing with Ubuntu 19.10's new experimental ZFS desktop install option in opting for using ZFS On Linux in place of EXT4 as the root file-system, here are some quick benchmarks looking at the out-of-the-box performance of ZFS/ZoL vs. EXT4 on Ubuntu 19.10 using a common NVMe solid-state drive.

Arch Linux Nears Roll-Out Of Zstd Compressed Packages For Faster Pacman Installs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/16/2019 - 21:29
The upcoming release of Arch's Pacman 5.2 is bringing support for compressing packages with Zstd which ultimately will provide faster package installs on Arch Linux...

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