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A Quick Run With The FSGSBASE Patches On Intel + AMD  Phoronix

Python 3: Process Command Line Arguments with argparse  stopthefud

BeagleBone Green Gateway SBC offers LAN and WiFi too  LinuxGizmos.com

Continuing with AMD's relaunch of GPUOpen and introducing new software releases all week, out this morning is Radeon Rays 4.0. It takes another step forward while taking a step back in terms of no longer being open-source...

Large-scale test of Ryzen 7 4700U under Linux showed that Intel has nothing to oppose AMD in this segment  Phone Mantra

Large-scale test of Ryzen 7 4700U under Linux showed that Intel has nothing to oppose AMD in this segment  Phone Mantra

Securing Linux's master sysadmin command: Sudo  ZDNet

Kali Linux 2020.2: New look, new packages, new installer options  Help Net Security

AMD announced today the Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card for $1899 USD and will begin shipping in June...

Linux Software Market 2020: Potential Growth, Challenges, and Know the Companies List Could Potentially Benefit or Loose out From the Impact of COVID-19 | Key Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Jewish Life News

The upstream Linux kernel developers have come out against a proposal to begin using the "-O3" optimization level when compiling the open-source code-base with the GCC 10 compiler or newer...

Upstream Linux Developers Against "-O3" Optimizing The Kernel  Phoronix

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty

The LLVM compiler stack is about to merge its support for the BFloat16 floating-point format, including the BF16 C language support...

Huawei Says Controversial Linux Kernel Patch Wasn’t Their Idea  TechNadu

Forget Windows, Linux Is The Most In-Demand OS On Microsoft Azure  Fossbytes

A lot is building up for Linux 5.8 and there already being a few rounds of AMDGPU feature improvements. Another batch of feature material for the AMD Radeon graphics driver was sent in this week to DRM-Next destined for Linux 5.8...

Linux 5.8 Bringing Soft Recovery Support For GFX10/Navi  Phoronix

While many hoped that with the adoption of Vulkan it would lead to avoiding driver-specific checks/workarounds, that's still not been the case to workaround various driver bugs and other issues. The RADV ACO compiler back-end has resorted to altering its version string in order to obtain 2~5% higher performance in Feral's latest Linux game release...

RADV ACO Adds A Version Hack/Workaround For An Extra 2~5% Boost In SotTR  Phoronix