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Request Diagnostic of My Hardware - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 support coming to Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

The second and possibly final release candidate of LLVM 11.0 is now available for testing...

AMD's software team has released version 3.7 of ROCm, the Radeon Open Compute stack as their alternative to NVIDIA's closed-source CUDA compute environment...

Incident Of The Week: Russia's Cyber Threat Du Jour Prompts The FBI And NSA To Release A Joint Statement  Cyber Security Hub

Exotic Device Gets Linux Support Via Wireshark And Rust  Hackaday

Merged into Mesa 20.3 earlier this week was VALLIUM as a Vulkan front-end to Gallium3D with an explicit focus to serve as a CPU/software-based Vulkan implementation and relying upon the Gallium/LLVMpipe infrastructure. But with VALLIUM being a Gallium3D front-end, some have wondered whether this could allow Vulkan to magically work with existing Gallium3D hardware drivers or even to run Vulkan on GPUs not natively supported by Vulkan...

Microsoft brings Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to Windows 10 1903 and 1909  ZDNet

WSL2 as a HyperV-powered more VM-like Windows Subsystem for Linux rolled out officially in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Microsoft though has now back-ported WSL2 to their Windows 10 November 2019 and May 2019 updates...

Lilbits: Use a Sony camera as a webcam, buy a monster Linux laptop, and more  Liliputing

NVIDIA Linux Driver Preparing To Drop SLI AA/AFR/SFR Support  Phoronix

NVIDIA is preparing to remove support for multi-GPU modes of AA (anti-aliasing), AFR (alternate frame rendering), and SFR (split frame rendering) from the Linux driver in the near future...

Linux users no longer safe from this up-and-coming DDoS botnet  TechRadar

Linux users no longer safe from this up-and-coming DDoS botnet  TechRadar New Zealand

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) today announced the formation of a Software Implementation Working Group (SIWG) to bring AV1 video support to more platforms by leveraging Intel's open-source SVT-AV1 implementation...

Xfce 4.16 continues to move along on new and improved features with hopes of shipping this calendar year. A batch of xfce4-panel improvements were merged today...

Intel defends its 'magic instructions' against Linux founder's criticism  PC Gamer

How to play GeForce Now in your Chrome browser without installing anything on your PC or Linux machine  Android Police

Senior Managers, Middleware/Linux Engineering Services - CCC Information Services  Built In Chicago

After System76 was teasing a new Bonobo WS in recent days as a high-end laptop with Core i9 10900K, up to 128GB of RAM, and Coreboot, they have now announced this $2399+ laptop...