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I'm in the market for a microphone Basic requirements: - Connects via USB - Works well with GNU/Linux (i.e. just plug it in and it works) - Ideal for Skype/Discord/Teamspeak/Mumble - Decent brand and/or build quality I've never purchased one of these before, so if anyone can identify any...

The BBC reports that Linus Torvalds has returned to his position as chief of Linux development. The outspoken developer took a 1 month break to reflect on his own behavior, where he reportedly sought out professional help. In response to complaints, Linus published an essay just before taking...

The latest version of Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" has been released. Along with the new version of Linux, Canonical has released statistics from users that opted in to complete a survey when installing 18.04 LTS. Phoronix has a list of some of the highlights that users should look forward...

Michael Larabel of Phoronix has conducted a test of Linux application scaling on up to 128 threads. He chose a Dell PowerEdge R7425 server featuring two AMD EPYC 7601 processors for a total of 64 cores and 128 threads, 512GB of RAM (16 x 32GB DDR4), and 20 x 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs. He ran...

Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) with the intentions of protecting Linux and open-source software from patent assertions waged by "patent trolls." They are bringing 60,000 issued patents to the organization and hope that their joining will attract others to the...

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/47337-phone-vendors-are-not-updating-their-linux-kernels From an interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman describes how big of a mess it is in the mobile environment regarding secure devices from several vendors.

AT&T has submitted detailed specifications to the Open Compute Project for a white box cell site gateway router. "This “white box” blueprint is a reference design that any hardware maker can use as a guide to build these routers." Tens of thousands of these routers will be deployed at cell...

SteamVR has been updated with a lot of bug fixes and a reprojection and timing update as Valve says that they have "improved the smoothness and reliability of the reprojection system. More improvements are planned." The performance of the compositor distortion renderer has been increased by...

The SMACH Z console has had a rough time being completed after its successful Kickstarter campaign finished in October 2016. The developers have had to contend with setbacks such as a breached manufacturing contract, but the company has rebounded to announce that they will be shipping units...

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, announced that he's taking a break from Linux development. While he's a prolific contributor to Linux, Linus is also known for being rather outspoken, to put it mildly. In the announcement, he apologized to community members his personal behavior may...

AMD developer Nicholas Kazlauskas has uploaded a series of patches, that when eventually added to the Linux kernel, will enable 'FreeSync' within Linux. Adaptive sync is the Displayport spec and variable refresh rate is the same but pertains to the HDMI spec that allows for graphics adapters...

Jason Evangelho has taken a deeper dive into Linux, Lies and Steam Play compatible video games. He touches on subjects such as ease of use when it comes to making Windows games run on Linux. Liam Dawe, of Gaming on Linux fame, assists Jason on his journey into gaming on the OS and it is nice...

Michael Larabel from Phoronix has run three Intel Xeon and two AMD EPYC systems through a battery of testing including a virtual machine to determine the performance cost that security mitigation patches such as Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow have had on the platforms under Linux. The Linux...

Valve has been hard at work funding the creation of open source tools to make Windows games compatible with the Linux operating system (OS). The end goal is to create a better more robust version of Steam Play. The first tool called Proton is a version of Wine that is directly funded by Valve...

According to the folks at Ars Technica, Valve may be working on a tool called Steam Play that will help some Windows games run on SteamOS. They base this speculation on a Reddit thread that showed Steam GUI files that talked about Steam Play. This tool will have a list of supported titles and...

Blender is an free and open source 3D creation suite which appeals to a demographic ranging from professionals to amateur video editors. Now they want to assist developers with understanding their system's ability to run Blender. A Blender Benchmark has been developed and released as a beta...

The Dolphin Emulator is back on the Google Play store after a long hiatus. As always you have to acquire and own the Gamecube and Wii games that you run on the emulator. If you're not interested in running an emulator on your potato phone, then the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions can be found...

OpenWrt is an open source Linux operating system targeting embedded devices such as routers, smartphones, pocket computers, and residential gateways. OpenWrt version 18.06.0 is the first stable version after the OpenWrt/LEDE project merger and the source code is available on the project's...

Star Ruler 2 is a massive scale 4X/RTS set in space that supports both the Windows and Linux operating systems (OS). Blind Mind Studios has announced that they are making the entire game and assets open source. The source code files for both OS can be found here, but you're going to have to...

Steam chat has gotten a major overhaul which includes a new sleek web browser integration in the latest update. You can drag friends into chat groups and post GIFs, tweets, videos and even upload pictures directly into the Steam client or your browser. I can share my favorite video game...

Hi Folks, By now, you may have seen this: And I'm sure some of you might have felt like this: Well, I'm BloodyIron, and I'm now working on something I've been mulling over for like 2 years. I'm going to start a YouTube series, as part of a channel of mine (which does not yet have...

Linux has gotten a rave review from Jason Evangelho after giving it a two week trial on his Dell XPS 13. Jason wandered into the Linux rabbit hole after 350GB of time sensitive data during a file transfer that was interrupted by an unannounced Windows 10 update and blue screen. He found that...

The Register is reporting that "On a Samba 4 Active Directory domain controller (AD DC) any authenticated user can change other users' passwords over LDAP, including the passwords of administrative users and service accounts." The problem is in all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 and newer where it...

We reported earlier this month that hacker group fail0verflow had gotten Linux to run on the Nintendo Switch due to a flaw in the boot ROM of the Nvidia Tegra X1 SOC. Now fail0verflow has upped the ante by posting a video on Twitter of a fully working Linux GUI on the switch. Slashgear is...

In a public email chain, the Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, and David Woodhouse, engineer at Amazon in the UK discuss Intel's "fix" for Meltdown/spectre. Never one to pull punches Torvalds exclaims "the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE." I can't even pretend to understand the technical...

Recently started mining and by recently I mean last night. Most of my rigs are ITX so all are single GPU setups; 2x270x, and a 380. Currently mining monero with claymore and getting 420-450H/s on the 270xs and 455-550H/s on the 380. I am using nicehash for CPU mining on two of the three...

Vulkan has been out for nearly 2 years now and Linux users have been patiently (maybe not so patiently) waiting for open-source drivers. According to Phoronix, AMD is going to release those drivers in the next few days. These drivers are being released under the GPUOpen initiative and will be...

I am looking for something like Puppet or Chef that can be used for automation. It needs to be agentless, and preferably free or at least not very expensive. I would like it to at least work with Windows and VMware, but support for Linux and network devices would also be nice. I was considering...

AMD released version 17.40 update for AMDGPU-Pro Beta Mining Driver for Linux. Release notes and instructions can be found over here. Compatible Operating Systems RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (64-bit version) CentOS 7.3 (64-bit version) Ubuntu 16.04.3 (64-bit version) Introduces Large Page...

AMD is now able to confirm they have reproduced the Ryzen "segmentation fault issue" and are working with affected customers. AMD characterize it as a performance marginality problem exclusive to certain workloads on Linux. The faults are found to occur with many, parallel compilation workloads...

Ubuntu will begin shipping with the minimize, maximize, and close buttons on the right-hand side of windows in October, after a survey carried out last month showed that 53.8% of respondents saying they prefer them on the right. Ubuntu is making this change after 7 years of the controls being on...

Hi, my current system is equipped with a Gigabyte GV-N670OC-2GD (with two monitors) and an Intel i5-3750K, running Windows 10 Pro and Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon in dual boot. I've been sighting graphical glitches for the past few days, sometimes one of my screens flashes black for a few frames...

A few weeks ago we reported on Adylkuzz, a malware that uses the same attack vector as the WannaCry ransomware, but rather than extort you for money by holding your data hostage, it installs cryptocurrency mining software on your machine, and mines cryptocurrency to the benefit of its creator...

I am not talking about the small market share. I am talking about how poorly it does simply things like drag a window across the screen. I have been using Linux for 20+ years. I first tried slackware from a stack of floppies I copied at my universities computer room in 1994. I have used it...

Toyota has announced that as an option for the 2018 Camry, you can get "Automotive Grade Linux" as the backbone of the Infotainment system. Toyota is still using Entune branding, with AGL 3.0 forming the base for its latest Entune 3.0 system in the Camry. This could be pretty interesting in my...

Hello, I have recently goring a few Levono S10-3 Netbooks they come with a Atom 450 CPU at 1.6Ghz (Single Core) and 2 GB of ram. They look almost new, but come with Windows XP licensees. So I have been looking into lightweight linux OS to run instead. I have tried Mint 18.1 Mate 32 Bit...

Hello there, I plan on building a nested setup using VMware Workstation with ESxi 6.5 on a Windows 7 system that I will also use for my day-to-day needs (programming, gaming, multimedia etc). The setup will be used for labbing Cisco Unified Communications and also for studying for the VCP and...

Background: I'm totally new to linux and my end goal is to get an Amahi 9 based home server setup (which requires Fedora 23 Server to be installed first). I had previous success with an older set of hardware that I used as a trial run before investing in new hardware and additional storage. The...

Feral Interactive has released a new Linux Mad Max build that brings the Vulkan API to the game. This new build alleviates the CPU bottlenecks that the OpenGL version was plagued with and boosts performance of the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti by up to 100%! This performance boost is prevalent throughout...

The Vulkan Working Group in Khronos has confirmed that Windows 10 is not required for Multi-GPU support. They admit that the wording contained in the original statement was easily misinterpreted. Khronos states that WDDM is just one of the options that they were releasing as a package of...