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For over one year now since Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) was first disclosed as a future feature with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids", Intel engineers have been posting AMX patches for enabling the new support for changes needed from the kernel to code compiler stacks. The Linux kernel support for AMX hasn't yet landed but has now been revised its seventh time for public review...

Linux Mint 20.2 has been released and is now available for free download  brytfmonline.com

Going back to 2017 was work on firmware-based power management for Intel graphics with its GuC implementation. That work didn't advance with the time but now with Intel renewing their work around GuC and with future hardware may mandate this binary-only firmware, they are again revisiting the GuC power management...

Intel Working On Implementing GuC Firmware Based Power Management For Linux  Phoronix

Linux 5.14 has re-landed support for improvements to lower the latency of its USB audio driver...

Back in April was the release of Vulkan Video extensions for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode using this cross-platform API. NVIDIA was quick to publish a beta driver with Vulkan Video support while adoption beyond that by drivers or multimedia software has been rather limited so far. Fortunately, the popular GStreamer multimedia framework for Linux users is working in the direction of supporting Vulkan Video...

There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent three years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart.

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Arriving late for the Linux 5.14 merge window that is closing this weekend are all of the Arm SoC and platform changes for this next kernel version...

T-shirt design contest celebrates 30 years of Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Raspberry Pi: Remote VNC and RDP access to a Linux computer using RemoteIoT  Virtual-Strategy Magazine

The RISC-V architecture code supports more functionality with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...

Linux vs. Windows: How to Pick the Best Server OS for Your Website  PCMag

Linux losing ground to Android TV and Huawei in pay TV and OTT  FierceVideo

Poll: Are you using Linux on your Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

1. Poll: Are you using Linux on your Chromebook?  About Chromebooks
2. Google pauses Chrome OS update, breaks Linux container  Chrome Unboxed
3. Google Chrome OS Update Pulled for Causing Performance Issues, Leaves Another Problem in Its Wake: Report  Gadgets 360
4. Google pulls latest Chromebook update amidst slowdowns, introducing another problem in the process  Android Police
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Why Linux's greatest strengths are also its greatest weaknesses  Texasnewstoday.com

Why Linux’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness  TechRadar

Exynos 2200 to beat the Snapdragon 895, tipster claims - comments  GSMArena.com

The latest achievement for Mesa's generic OpenGL implementation atop Vulkan is being able to handle OpenGL ES 3.2...

Sophos acquires Linux-focused security firm Capsule8  ITP.net