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Better Support For Newer Synaptics Laptop Touchpads Coming To Linux 5.10

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 12:00
Synaptics has contributed RMI4 F3A support for Linux 5.10 to better the support for newer laptop touchpads...

ZFSOnLinux 0.8.5 Released With Support For Newer Kernels, Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 08:32
While the feature-packed OpenZFS 2.0 is on track for releasing before year's end as the evolution of ZFSOnLinux and now with FreeBSD support and many other improvements in tow, for those riding the ZFSOnLinux 0.8 stable series out today is v0.8.5...

Antonio Riso - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 05:59
Antonio Riso  Linux Journal

Linux 5.10 To Have Initial Support For UEFI Booting On RISC-V

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 05:15
It looks like the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel cycle will be the first to bring initial support for UEFI booting on RISC-V hardware...

Chrome 86 Released With Native File-System, WebCodecs APIs

Phoronix - Wed, 10/07/2020 - 00:32
Chrome 86 is out today as the latest feature release to Google's cross-platform web browser...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Offers Up Incredible Linux GPU Compute Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 23:00
Yesterday I finally received a GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card from NVIDIA for being able to deliver the first of our Linux benchmarks on the new RTX 30 Ampere series. What is immediately clear is the huge performance uplift for OpenCL and CUDA workloads with the RTX 3080 compared to its predecessors. The raw performance and even performance-per-dollar is staggering out of the GeForce RTX 3080 with the initial tests carried out on Ubuntu Linux. Linux gaming benchmarks will be out in the days ahead but for now is a look at the RTX 3080 compute performance across dozens of benchmarks and going as far back as the GeForce GTX 980 series for comparison.

Mainframes revived, why you should take a break, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 21:40

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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Qt 6.0 Alpha Released

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 20:38
Even with the tumultuous year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Qt Company is still on track for delivering the Qt 6.0 toolkit release before year's end...

Intel's Patches Discussed For Exposing Hybrid CPU Topology Via Sysfs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:50
Last week open-source developers at Intel began sending out Linux patches for supporting hybrid CPUs particularly ahead of 12th Gen "Alder Lake" coming to market with a mix of Golden Cove and Gracemont cores. Following that article last week, more patches hit the list in exposing the hybrid CPU topology to user-space...

Google Is Adding Support For Metadata Encryption To F2FS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:30
F2FS as the Flash-Friendly File-System has long supported transparent file-system encryption via Linux's FSCRYPT framework but now Google engineers are working on allowing the file-system metadata to also be encrypted...

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