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Ubuntu Touch: A Brief History of This Ambitious Project  It's FOSS

Latest In-vehicle Infotainment Market by Component (Display unit, Control Panel, TCU, HUD), OS (Linux, QNX, MS, Others) Service- Forecast to 2027  re:Jerusalem

This week brought the release of AMD's ROCm 3.9 as their open-source compute stack for Radeon GPUs. With ROCm 3.9 the AOMP work for LLVM/Clang-based compiler with OpenMP offload capabilities to Radeon GPUs was integrated. AOMP though is still advancing independently of the ROCm releases with Friday night marking the release of AOMP 11.11...

The LLVM Clang compiler stack has merged its support for AVX-VNNI, the Vector Neural Network Instructions for AVX to complement the AVX-512 version...

The bug fixing in KDE land continues and ends the month with a "bug massacre", for how KDE developer Nate Graham describes it in his weekly recaps...

Install OpenShot Video Editor on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux App Touchégg v2.0.2 Released With Touchscreen Support  Fossbytes

"NTFS3" Linux Driver Spun Up An 11th Time With More Optimizations  Phoronix

It's looking like Paragon Software's "NTFS3" read-write Linux driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system is on a trajectory where we could see it land possibly with the Linux 5.11 kernel kicking off at year's end. Friday marked the eleventh iteration of these patches that Paragon previously offered to commercial customers but is now in the process of being upstreamed...

Linux 5.11 To Properly Support The Keyboard Of Newer ASUS Gaming Laptops  Phoronix

The Linux 5.11 kernel will bring support for the ASUS "N-Key" keyboard that is used by nearly all of the current ASUS gaming laptops...

From Linux to Windows and Back  The New Leam

Beginning with Mesa 20.2 is OpenGL 4.5 support for LLVMpipe, the LLVM-based software rasterizer built as a Gallium3D driver. This succeeded LLVMpipe for years being limited to OpenGL 3.3. While the OpenGL 4.5 support has been enabled for weeks, The Khronos Group has now officially confirmed its implementation...

Linux Foundation Public Health wants to combat COVID-19 with free apps - Business Insider  Business Insider

The Linux kernel's frame-buffer console (FBCON) is set to drop accelerated scrolling support since it isn't widely used and now found to be "full of bugs" plaguing the code-base...

Linux Frame-Buffer Console To Drop Accelerated Scrolling Since It's Full Of Bugs  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Public Health wants to combat COVID-19 with free apps - Business Insider  Business Insider

Canonical has announced ETrace as a new application tracing tool designed for debugging and performance profiling of Snap packages but can also be used with any Linux binary applications...

Canonical Announces ETrace As New Linux Application Tracing For Performance/Debugging  Phoronix

Intel Compute-Runtime 20.43.18277 is out this morning as the latest version of the company's open-source graphics compute stack for HD/UHD/Iris/Xe Graphics on Linux with OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support...