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As another one of the prerequisites for landing the AMD Radeon RX 5000 series "Navi" support in Mesa, the libdrm bits have just been merged...

Install Handbrake on Linux to reduce video file sizes  H2S Media

HandBrake is a free & open source tool developed to convert videos from one formats to another . It is a cross-platform encoding tool (Windows, Mac & Linux).

Four CVEs Describe SACKs of Linux and FreeBSD ...  Dark Reading

Four new CVEs present issues that have a potential DoS impact on almost every Linux user.

Linux driver hints that more AMD Navi GPUs are on the way  PC Gamer

So far, AMD has only officially announced three Navi models, the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700, along with a 50th Anniversary Edition of the former ...

Ubuntu Linux Gets Intel MDS Mitigations for Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, Update Now  Softpedia News

Users must update their systems as soon as possible.

Daily News Roundup: Malware in Your Pirated Software  How-To Geek

Researchers at ESET and Malwarebytes have discovered crypto mining malware hidden in pirated music production software. The pirated software loads the ...

Get the Pay What You Want: The Complete Linux eBook Bundle  BleepingComputer

A new pay what you want deal is available for 4 eBooks from Packt Publishing on how to secure Linux, perform shell scripting, Linux programming, and more.

The Latest Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Radeon Performance Against NVIDIA With Mid-Range GPUs  Phoronix

With the Linux 5.2 kernel a few weeks out from its stable release and now being in the middle of the Mesa 19.2 development cycle for the RADV Vulkan and ...

With the Linux 5.2 kernel a few weeks out from its stable release and now being in the middle of the Mesa 19.2 development cycle for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers, here are some fresh results looking at the latest open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack compared to the latest NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver. In this article the focus is on the mid-range (Polaris) line-up against the NVIDIA competition while similar tests on the high-end are currently being carried out.

Jeff Woods  Linux Journal

Jeff Woods has worked in the IT field for more than 20 years, with broad experience in areas including software engineering, data engineering, operations, ...

Linux Certified System Administrator exam: User and group management  TechGenix

The Linux Certified System Administrator exam can be an important career step. Here's a close look at what is covered in user and group management.

Linux Certified System Administrator exam: User and group management  TechGenix

The Linux Certified System Administrator exam can be an important career step. Here's a close look at what is covered in user and group management.

Flameshot Linux: An open source screenshot tool for Linux  H2S Media

Flameshot, an annotate & screenshot shutter for Linux. It is a simple lightwieght Linux screenshot tool works on distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, debian etc.

GNOME 3.33.3 is out this morning as the latest development release in the trek towards the very exciting GNOME 3.34 desktop update due out this September...

Linux display driver code hints that more AMD Navi GPUs are coming  The INQUIRER

IT LOOKS LIKE more AMD Navi Navi-based Radeon graphics cards are coming if snippets of info in Linux display driver code are anything to go by. Flagged by ...

If you are planning to enjoy some Linux gaming this week via Steam, you may want to think twice about upgrading to the latest Linux kernel Git code or even the newest stable point releases...

The Latest Linux Kernel Appears To Be Causing Connectivity Issues For Steam  Phoronix

If you are planning to enjoy some Linux gaming this week via Steam, you may want to think twice about upgrading to the latest Linux kernel Git code or even the ...

Intel Drops 2 Exciting Clues About The Future Of Clear Linux OS For 'Normal' Desktop Users  Forbes

At first blush, Intel's Clear Linux OS Project may not seem like the ideal candidate for average desktop users. Expect that to change in the near future.

The latest use-case for the increasingly popular Zstd compression algorithm could be employment by the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for compressing its link-time optimization (LTO) data...

The Bzip2 open-source compression program is about to see its first real release since September 2010. This new version brings new build systems, security fixes, and much more...