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• Patent Law Firms Have Become More Like Marketing Departments With an Aptitude for Buzzwords
• Interlude: The Need to Counter Misinformation From the Patent and Litigation ‘Industry’
• Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
• Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

The Next Linux Kernel To Support Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 Sound Cards

The next major Linux kernel cycle whether it is called Linux 4.20 or ends up being called Linux 5.0 as expected is now slated to carry support for the high-end Creative Labs' Sound BlasterX AE-5 sound card. Earlier this week I reported on Linux patches for the Sound BlasterX AE-5 coming from a contributor. The AE-5 is a ~$150 PCI Express sound card with SABRE32 Ultra Class DAC, BlasterX Acoustic Engine, and other high-end audio features and for suiting to gamers/enthusiasts also has an RGB lighting controller onboard.

The Reiser4 File-System Is Now Available For The Linux 4.18 Kernel

It took several weeks past the initial stable debut of the Linux 4.18 kernel, but the Reiser4 file-system has now been updated to work with this new kernel build.

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