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Modern Linux Runs On Ancient Toshiba  Hackaday

While Microsoft no longer supports those of its operating systems that were in heavy use into the early 2000s, support for old hardware is not typically something ...

Taking place back in May at the beautiful Skamania Lodge in Washington was Intel's OSTS 2019 for their annual Open-Source Technology Summit that traditionally was internal-only but has begun opening up including allowing external participants this year. I was at OSTS 2019 and it's by far my highlight of the year with many really great sessions and a lot of useful networking at the event. Intel's open-source team has now shared some video recordings from this open-source/Linux event...

Wayland's Weston 7.0 was released on Friday with the newest features for this reference compositor implementation...

Global Linux Software Market 2019 – Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  island Daily Tribune

The given report is an excellent research study specially compiled to provide latest insights into critical aspects of the Global Linux Software Market by ...

CryptoCurrency OS Makes It Easy to Buy and Spend Digital Cash  LinuxInsider.com

If you are ready to jump into the digital world of a bitcoin economy, CryptoCurrency OS might be your most convenient way to fast-track your entry.

VoCore2 Mini pint-sized Linux computer and router fits in palm of your hand  AndroidGuys

The VoCore2 Ultimate is a Linux PC and wireless router, and can be used as a VPN gateway, AirPlay music streaming station, private cloud, and much more.

Daily Deal: VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Techdirt

The VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle gives you a coin-sized computer and a screen that you can set up anywhere. The VoCore2 Ultimate is an ...

News Wrap: Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama, Unix Utility Backdoor  Threatpost

From a backdoor placed in the Webmin utility to vulnerability disclosure drama around zero-days in Valve's Steam gaming clients, Threatpost breaks down this ...

Wine 4.0.2 is out today as the second stable point release to this year's Wine 4.0 cycle...

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Is Working Well On Linux Review  Phoronix

AMD Raven Ridge APUs were a rough launch particularly on Linux where even with the latest motherboard BIOS updates and Linux kernel I am still hitting ...

AMD Raven Ridge APUs were a rough launch particularly on Linux where even with the latest motherboard BIOS updates and Linux kernel I am still hitting occasional stability issues, so when the opportunity arose recently to try out the Ryzen 5 3400G as the successor in the Picasso family, I was interested. Fortunately, AMD Picasso APUs have proven to be in better shape on Linux so here is the initial round of performance tests for those interested in the AMD Linux performance on Ubuntu.

This Linux computer plus router is the size of a ring box  Boing Boing

If there's one thing that stayed consistent through the last decade or so of tech industry turmoil, it's the love affair between techies and Linux. There's just a ton ...

Linux Virtual Machine App GNOME Boxes Has An Awesome Time-Saving Feature You Should Know About  Forbes

What's better than quickly installing a new Linux distro in a virtual machine? Express installing it!

Linux Virtual Machine App GNOME Boxes Has An Awesome Time-Saving Feature You Should Know About  Forbes

What's better than quickly installing a new Linux distro in a virtual machine? Express installing it!

After having been submitting various feature updates to DRM-Next the past few weeks of new graphics driver feature code to introduce in Linux 5.4, a final pull request was sent in today with the remaining feature work slated for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Following Spectre/Meltdown, the Linux CPU microcode updating was made serial while now a new patch pending for the Linux kernel would restore the behavior to be parallelized in order to speed-up the process for large core count servers...

While NVIDIA recently began publishing more hardware documentation, don't expect it to make an immediate difference in the quality of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver. Today the pull request was sent to DRM-Next of the Nouveau kernel driver changes for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle and there isn't much to get excited about...

While VKD3D continues to be under heavy development, Valve already appears pleased with it enough that it's now being built as part of their Wine-based Proton software for powering Steam Play on Linux...

Currently the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver doesn't automatically adjust the video memory clock speeds when running a multi-monitor setup since it's more complicated to gracefully handle when scanning out to two or more displays. But a set of currently experimental patches will allow memory clock switching support on multi-monitor setups with the AMDGPU DC code...

The word innovation gets bandied about in the tech industry almost as much as revolution, so it can be difficult to differentiate hyperbole from something that’s actually exciting. The Linux kernel has been called innovative, but then again it’s also been called the biggest hack in modern computing, a monolith in a micro world.

Setting aside marketing and modeling, Linux is arguably the most popular kernel of the open source world, and it’s introduced some real game-changers over its nearly 30-year life span.

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