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AMD Sends Updated Zen CPU Microcode To Linux-Firmware Tree
New AMD Family 17h (Zen) CPU family microcode was merged today into linux-firmware.git...
Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Released With Better HiDPI Support, App Changes
In meeting their plans for shipping Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" before Christmas, the Xfce / MATE / Cinnamon editions of this updated Linux distribution shipped this morning...
Intel Core i9 10980XE: Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance
A few weeks back having done Threadripper 3970X Windows vs. Linux benchmarks for seeing how the competing operating systems are performing, following the recent i9-10980XE 11-way Linux distributions tests I loaded up Microsoft Windows 10 Pro November 2019 Update... Here are those benchmarks for those wondering how the Cascadelake-X platform is running in Windows vs. Linux performance.
The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s
Excluding the Linux hardware reviews, here is a look back at the most-viewed Radeon Linux/open-source graphics driver news of the 2010s...
NVIDIA Announces DRIVE AGX Orin With New SoC Built On Next-Gen GPU + Arm Hercules Cores
NVIDIA announced the new DRIVE AGX Orin last night as their software-defined platform for robots and vehicles. Besides the DRIVE AGX itself, making it very notable is the use of their new Tegra "Orin" SoC...
Intel iGPU Linux Gamers May Be Better Off With The "Powersave" Governor
While it's normally recommended switching to the P-State/CPUFreq "performance" governor for the optimal Linux gaming experience and the preferred default of Feral's GameMode Linux gaming daemon, in the case of Intel integrated graphics you may find better results in using the "powersave" governor...
GNOME's GLib Adds GMemoryMonitor As Another Step In Helping Cope With Linux RAM Pressure
With the new GNOME GLib 2.63.3 library release is a new "GMemoryMonitor" API for allowing notifications of when an application should attempt to free any non-critical system memory in an effort to help the system cope with memory pressure...
Oracle Pushes Out Another Solaris 11.4 Update To End Out 2019
There's still nothing on Solaris past the v11.4 series, but Oracle is ending out 2019 with a last stable release update for the year...
A Kubuntu-Powered Laptop Is Launching In 2020 For High-End KDE Computing
A Kubuntu laptop is launching soon that is aiming for a high-end Linux laptop experience atop the KDE flavor of Ubuntu...
FLANG Fortran Compiler Preparing To Land In The LLVM Source Tree
It looks like the FLANG Fortran compiler (also previously referred to as f18) could soon be landing in the LLVM source tree and in time for the LLVM 10.0 branching...
Intel's Deep Learning Reference Stack 5.0 Released With Natural Language Processing Optimizations
One year and one week since announcing the Deep Learning Reference Stack built atop Intel's open-source technologies like Clear Linux and Kata, the Deep Learning Reference Stack 5.0 was released today...
Canonical Wants Your Feedback To Help Prepare Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Canonical is soliciting desktop and server users to participate in a brief survey for helping to focus their work on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and moving forward...
Purism Announces Librem Server While Also Announcing Price Hikes On The Librem 5
If Purism didn't already have their hands full enough in working on the Librem 5 to make a fully functional Linux smartphone, the company announced today a forthcoming price hike for the device while also announcing their expansion into the server space.....
Clear Linux Concluding 2019 With ~7% Faster Performance For The Year, Some Open-Source Workloads Much Faster
The latest in our series looking at various Linux performance metrics for end of year 2019 as well as for larger comparisons in ending out the 2010s, the latest is an always fun benchmarking topic... Looking at the course of Intel's Clear Linux performance over the course of the year. Here is a look at the performance of Clear Linux over the span of 2019 for 80 different tests.
Life Is Strange 2 Releasing For Linux This Week
Feral Interactive has announced they are releasing the complete season of Life Is Strange 2 for Linux (and macOS) this Thursday...
NetworkManager 1.22 Released With Experimental Cloud Setup Utility, New Logo
NetworkManager 1.22 is out today as the last update of this widely-used Linux network manager software for 2019...
DMA-BUF HEAPS Coming To Linux 5.6, Poulsbo Pops Back Up To Get Page-Flipping
More Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) material is queuing ahead of the Linux 5.6 kernel cycle in early 2020...
Purism Making Some Progress On Convergence With Phosh Running On Desktop
One of many features not yet in place for Purism's Librem 5 smartphone is working convergence where one can plug-in a display and keyboard/mouse to the phone and have a working system, along the lines of what was originally envisioned by Canonical with Ubuntu Touch. But some progress is being made with at least getting their phone-focused "Phosh" Wayland compositor working on the desktop form factor...
GKraken Makes It Incredibly Easy To Manage NZXT Water Cooling Setups On Linux
With most all-in-one water cooling setups I am used to seeing no Linux support at all either from the vendor themselves or any third-party/community reverse-engineered support, but in the case of the NZXT Kraken X series with the independent GKraken open-source software is easily the best experience I've had to date in managing water cooling setups from the Linux desktop...
MoltenVK Updated For Providing Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Support On Apple macOS/iOS
MoltenVK has now caught up against the latest Vulkan upstream specification for the time being in supporting Vulkan translated to Apple's Metal API on macOS and iOS...