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There's an exciting patch set to GNOME Shell and Mutter now pending for finally wiring up the full-screen unredirected display / full-screen bypass compositing for helping the performance of full-screen games in particular on Wayland...

Based off yesterday's release of Wine 4.16, the Wine-Staging 4.16 update out today is more prominent with a number of new patches introduced to this experimental/testing flavor of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux...

For fans of the lightweight Slax Linux distribution, version 9.11 is now available and is re-based against upstream Debian 9.11 for this operating system that was resurrected two years ago...

In addition to the work being led by DigitalOcean on core scheduling to make Hyper Threading safer in light of security vulnerabilities, IBM and Oracle engineers continue working on Kernel Address Space Isolation to help prevent data leaks during attacks...

Kernel Address Space Isolation Still Baking To Limit Data Leaks From Foreshadow & Co  Phoronix

In addition to the work being led by DigitalOcean on core scheduling to make Hyper Threading safer in light of security vulnerabilities, IBM and Oracle engineers ...

Radeon ROCm 2.7.2 is now available as the newest update to AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Meet PineTime, A Ridiculously Affordable Companion Watch For Your Linux Smartphone  Forbes

Pine64is breaking into the watch business with #PineTime, an affordable smartwatch companion for your Linux smartphone.

Windows 10 Preview Adds Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on ARM64 Devices  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for ...

Windows 10 Preview Adds Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on ARM64 Devices  Redmondmag.com

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for ...

In time for any weekend gaming, Valve's team maintaining their Proton downstream of Wine for powering Steam Play to run Windows games on Linux has issued their v4.11-4 update...

Wine 4.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot leading up to the Wine 5.0 release in just a few more months...

3rd gen kit for embedded linux self-training is Raspberry Pi B-based  LinuxGizmos.com

The 3rd generation Embedded Linux Learning Kit from Intellimetrix includes a Raspberry Pi 3B board, a Pi HAT with peripherals, power supply, cables and ...

Complementing our recent AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Linux benchmarking, with recently having out the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, here are benchmarks showing that previous $999 USD six-core / twelve-thread processor compared to today's Ryzen 5 3600X (and previous-generation Ryzen 5 2600X) as well as the Core i7 8700K.

IdeaNova Technologies Debuts Linux DRM Server and Updated InPlay Portal  APEX Media

The latest from the Airline Passenger Experience Association, sharing aviation and passenger experience news from around the world.

Archman Linux: Pure Arch With Extra Flair  LinuxInsider.com

Archman is an Arch Linux-based rolling distribution featuring the Calamares system installer, Pamac package manager, and a selection of preconfigured ...

GNOME 3.34 'Thessaloniki' Linux desktop environment is finally here  BetaNews

There are many Linux desktop environments from which to choose — some are good, others are bad, but only one can be best — GNOME. Whether you choose ...

Newer high-end Lenovo ThinkPad laptops feature an option called "PrivacyGuard" for restricting the usable vertical and horizontal viewing angles of the LCD display, similar to what has been achievable previously using film covers and the like. With Linux 5.4 this feature will be supported by the kernel if concerned about others looking over your shoulders at your screen, etc...

Linux 5.4 Bringing Support For Lenovo's "PrivacyGuard" On Newer ThinkPads  Phoronix

Newer high-end Lenovo ThinkPad laptops feature an option called "PrivacyGuard" for restricting the usable vertical and horizontal viewing angles of the LCD ...

Besides KDE seeing its own HiDPI improvements like fractional scaling on Wayland recently landing, the Qt5 tool-kit is seeing more HiDPI improvements on its end too...

Huawei Opts for Linux on Its Laptops  PCMag

No access to Windows 10? No problem! Huawei starts using Deepin Linux for its MateBook laptops in China, and they're cheaper, too.