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Latest Kali Linux OS Added Windows-Style Undercover Theme for Hackers  Internet

As covered earlier this month, the next version of the Linux kernel is finally offering mainline support for SGI's Octane / Octane II MIPS workstations from the SGI IRIX days about two decades ago. Not only is the vintage SGI IP30 hardware seeing mainline kernel support, but there is other new MIPS hardware support too...

Newer Loongson 3A Variant Being Supported By Linux 5.5 Along With The SGI Octane  Phoronix

Kali Linux 2019.4 includes new undercover mode for pentesters doing work in public places  Help Net Security

The X.Org Server and its integrated "modesetting" DDX driver that is most commonly used on modern Linux systems in place of hardware-specific DDX drivers is finally getting more robust with xorg-server 1.21... It will no longer rely upon the server's PCI ID driver mapping for figuring out the DRI driver to load as needed for GLAMOR 2D acceleration over OpenGL...

Automation and management are important tools for organizations looking to modernize, improve efficiency, and expand their IT systems without having to add staff. When faced with these problems, some companies turn to Red Hat to help them use enterprise open source to solve their problems. See how Mann & Schröder Cosmetics, Swiss Federal Railways, and Česká spořitelna worked with Red Hat to improve their IT. 

Just under three months past Lutris 0.5.3 as this open-source game manager/platform tool particularly for Wine-based gaming outside of Steam, Lutris 0.5.4 is now available in getting Linux gamers ready for any extra holiday-time gaming...

Lutris 0.5.4 Released For This Linux Game Management Tool  Phoronix

While AMD annouced ROCm 3.0 earlier this month at SuperComputing 19 as the next major iteration to Radeon Open Compute, it looks like they aren't quite ready to ship it and instead released ROCm 2.10...

The Linux 5.2 kernel and newer appears to be suffering from an AVX register corruption bug stemming from signal delivery. This register corruption issue is manifesting itself at least for Golang programs leading to a variety of bug reports when running on Linux 5.2 through at least the newly-minted Linux 5.4...

Linux 5.2+ Hit By AVX Register Corruption Bug - Affecting At Least Golang Programs  Phoronix

While the Motorola 68000 32-bit processors are from the 80's and early 90's, there still is a loyal following of hobbyists who managed to save the "m68k" compiler back-end from being removed in GCC 11...

As part of the sound subsystem updates coming with the Linux 5.5 kernel is wake-on-voice capabilities with newer Google Chromebook device hardware...

Linux 5.5 Adding Wake-On-Voice Support - Capable On Some Chromebook Hardware  Phoronix

Atari® Vault Collection on Windows PC, Mac, and Linux Operating Systems Grows to 150 Classic Atari Games  GamingLyfe Network

Deepin Linux Manager Talks Huawei Partnership, Spyware Accusations And Tantalizing Teases For 2020  Forbes

The Deepin Linux Interview: Huawei, Those Spyware Accusations And Tantalizing Teases For 2020  Forbes

For several release cycles already the Linux kernel has supported Intel's 5-level paging for increasing the virtual and physical address space available to systems while for Linux 5.5 the five-level support is being enabled by default...

Linux 5.5 To Enable Intel's 5-Level Paging Support By Default  Phoronix

Kali Linux Ethical Hacking OS Switches to Xfce Desktop, Gets New Look and Feel  Softpedia News