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Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2020

Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.

Intel reveals brand new desktop processors along with their Core i9-10900K flagship

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Intel have now fully revealed their latest processors today, with the Core i9-10900K now their flagship with a claim of it being "the world's fastest gaming processor".

If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4

By Liam Dawe, 30 Apr 2020

Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.

AMD's Q1 2020 financial report out - RDNA 2 and Zen 3 on track for this year

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2020

AMD recently released a fresh financial report and while they have strong growth year-over-year, things are looking a bit more tough overall.

Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2020

As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.

AMD announces the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X budget processors and a new B550 chipset

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

On a budget? Good news for you, as AMD are expanding their third-gen Ryzen processor list with the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is a brand of special hardware primarily aimed at PC gaming and work is now underway by the community to better support their laptops on Linux.

A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2020

We have no idea if Valve will ever do a proper second revision of the Steam Controller, we've seen hints before and now we have more info on what it could have been.

The System76 'Lemur Pro' laptop is available now with Coreboot and open source firmware

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2020

System76 have now fully revealed the 'Lemur Pro' laptop, and not only is it powerful and good-looking it's also their most open laptop yet.

The Atari VCS is in trouble again as Rob Wyatt sues Atari for lack of payment

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2020

Rob Wyatt, the architect behind the original Xbox and someone Atari hired to work on the Atari VCS system is now suing Atari over their failure to actually pay up.

System76 formally tease their new 'Lemur Pro' laptop as their most open yet

By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2020

System76, Linux hardware and software vendor has today formally begun teasing the new 'Lemur Pro' laptop and it's their most open yet.

Privacy-focused Linux vendor Purism announces the stylish Librem Mini

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2020

Purism aren't a company we cover here often, as their devices aren't usually gaming related. However, they did just announce a mini-PC that looks and sounds rather lovely called the Librem Mini.

Linux hardware vendor System76 will have their own Keyboard out this year

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2020

System76 do a lot of things, they've steadily grown to a point where they make their own desktops and now they're expanding further into making more hardware.

AMD announce a big sale going for their 3rd Gen Ryzen desktop processors

By Liam Dawe, 12 Mar 2020

From now until the end of March, AMD have cut the price of some popular 3rd Gen Ryzen desktop processors across multiple stores with discounts in many countries.

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Hardware

Say hello to your new best friend 'LVI' - another security flaw in CPUs for Intel

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2020

Security? What security? Say hello to 'LVI' (Load Value Injection), a new class of' transient-execution attacks' exploiting flaws in modern processors and it defeats all existing countermeasures.

AMD just recently had a 'Take A Way' security issue for their CPUs disclosed

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2020

Thought Intel was the only one? Well you would be living under a rock with all the past issues but Intel seemed to be constantly hit harder, and they had another recently. This time, it's AMD's turn in the security spotlight.

Intel chipsets have another security issue, this time it's 'unfixable'

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

Researchers have uncovered a fun new vulnerability in Intel processors, and this one has a claim attached that it's not possible to fix it.

AMD next-gen Zen 3 due this year, Zen 4 will be 5nm and new RDNA 2-based GPUs coming

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

The last few years have shown what competition can really do. AMD went from being constantly bottom, to truly kicking some ass with the Zen processor design and they have more to come.

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Hardware

As AMD launch the monster 3990X CPU, System76 offer it up with their stylish Thelio Major

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2020

Today, AMD officially made the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X available as a seriously high-end desktop processor. Along with that, System76 jumped in right away to give it as an option on their powerful Thelio Major.