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System76 Announces Lemur Pro Linux Laptop with Insane Battery Life  Softpedia News

Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Was Called … Precise Pangolin  Reason

One of the interesting innovations for the eBPF in-kernel virtual machine in recent times is the work by Google on supporting MAC and audit policy handling by it. This stems from currently custom real-time security data collection and analysis of Google servers internally for real-time threat protection and this patch-set is part of their work on allowing similar functionality in the upstream Linux kernel...

Google Engineer Posts Latest Patches For MAC + Audit Policy Using eBPF  Phoronix

System76 Lemur Pro is an Ubuntu Linux workhorse laptop  BetaNews

I want to completely remove Linux Mint and reinstall Windows 10 - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer

Being introduced by Linux 5.6 is optional F2FS transparent data compression support that was implemented with LZO and LZ4. Now for the Linux 5.7 kernel there is Zstd compression support on the way...

F2FS File-System Adding Zstd Compression Support In Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Linux Distribution Published with Parrot OS 4.8, Kernel 5.4  Somag News

Networking-focused module runs Linux on NXP's S32G  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux phones running postmarketOS can now run (some) Android apps thanks to Anbox  Liliputing

As part of the ZFS improvements for Ubuntu 20.04 with Canonical's Zsys initiative is the ability to automatically take snapshots on APT operations for being able to do a system rollback/revert if necessary following package management changes. I've begun trying out the ZFS/Zsys changes for Ubuntu 20.04 and so far is working well...

System76 Lemur Pro is a 2.2 pound Linux laptop with 14.1 inch screen, Intel Comet Lake  Liliputing

Linux-driven, Cortex-A72 edge computer supports up to 25GbE Ethernet  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux-driven, Cortex-A72 edge computer supports up to 25GbE Ethernet  LinuxGizmos.com

Valve today released their Half-Life: Alyx virtual reality first-person shooter game and built atop their Source 2 engine...

Valve's Half-Life: Alyx Released - Linux Build Still Coming  Phoronix

First Look at the UI for resizing Linux Disk on Chrome OS  Chrome Unboxed

NVIDIA has released a new feature update to their Nsight Graphics standalone developer tool for debugging and profiling applications/games built atop a variety of 3D APIs...

For those stuck in home isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic, MythTV 31 has been released for any open-source DVR and HTPC needs...