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Linux Kernel 5.4 Released With Kernel Lockdown, exFAT Support & More  Fossbytes

Linux Operating System Pricing Structure 2019 in Global Market – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Market News Reports

With the Linux 5.5 kernel now in development the Habana Labs AI startup is preparing for supporting future chips with their open-source Linux kernel driver...

Habana Labs Begins Preparing For Future ASIC Support In Their Linux Driver  Phoronix

Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android  It's FOSS

The UBports community developers maintaining Ubuntu Touch have landed the 64-bit ARM (ARM64/AArch64) version of libhybris into their "Edge" development branch. This in turn opens up Ubuntu Touch to more easier porting to newer Android devices...

Linux 5.4 Kernel Released With exFAT Support, Faster Radeon Graphics, New Hardware  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds has officially released the Linux 5.4 "Kleptomaniac Octopus" kernel this evening as was expected. Linux 5.4 is the last major stable kernel release of the year and brings a lot of new hardware support particularly on the graphics processor front, Microsoft exFAT support is finally available, and a plethora of other new features and improvements to existing functionality...

The trials and tribulations of video decoding on Linux  OS News

GNOME 3.35.2 is out as the latest development release on the route to GNOME 3.36 due out next March...

NextCloud Linux Servers Targetted by NextCry Ransomware  Market Research Base

Ubuntu Linux strangely promotes Brony culture on Twitter  BetaNews

While NVIDIA graphics in IBM POWER systems have been known to make a powerful combination for supercomputer deployments, for those wanting a libre GPU compute experience can also use POWER with AMD Radeon's open-source driver with a pending patch to the kernel driver...

Following the initial tests earlier this month from the disclosures of the JCC Erratum (Jump Conditional Code) that required updated Intel CPU microcode to address and on the same day the TSX Async Abort (TAA) vulnerability that required kernel mitigations to address, which I have run benchmarks of those CPU performance impacts individually, readers have requested tests looking at the current overall impact to the mitigations to date.

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As part of the KSelfTest updates sent in early for the Linux 5.5 merge window opening tonight/tomorrow, Google's KUnit is included in this pull request as the basic kernel unit testing framework...

KUnit Slated To Land With The Linux 5.5 Kernel For Expanding Kernel Unit Testing  Phoronix

For the imminent Linux 5.5 kernel cycle we have talked about exciting AMD Radeon and Intel graphics driver changes on deck from Navi OvrDrive overclocking to more Intel Tiger Lake and Jasper Lake bits, AMDGPU HDCP support, and other features queued. But what about the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux driver?..

The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs  Phoronix

It was a busy week in the KDE space...