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With last week's release of dav1d 0.8 for CPU-based AV1 video decoding we provided a number of x86_64 benchmarks while questions were raised around the ARM64 and POWER9 performance. Here are such benchmarks for those wondering about the AV1 video decoding speed on those architectures...

What is the difference between Unix and Linux? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to build a Linux-powered smart home  Techradar

How to build a Linux-powered smart home  Techradar

How to build a Linux-powered smart home  TechRadar

How to build a Linux-powered smart home  TechRadar

KDE's KWin window manager / compositor has seen a "near total rewrite" of its compositing code that should sharply improve the desktop...

Building off yesterday's Wine 6.0-RC6 release is an updated Wine-Staging build...

Like nearly everyone, 2020 was a bit rough on me, with many unexpected changes. That meant I missed every single event this year, even though all of them were virtual. As things settled down a bit over the holidays, I started looking around to find out what I missed.

In case you're in the same position, I'll walk you through the virtual events that you should have seen in 2020. The good news is, since they were all virtual, you can still watch them.

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With Linux 5.11 the Intel Linux graphics driver is bringing async page-flipping for Gen9/Skylake and newer. However, patches pending for a future release (potentially 5.12) would extend that performance benefiting feature now all the way back to the Ironlake days...

ECS LIVA Q1A Arm mini PC runs Linux or Android on Rockchip RK3288 or RK3399 SoC  CNX Software

The first of several batches of feature updates to the AMDGPU kernel driver were sent in on Friday for anticipation of the Linux 5.12 kernel merge window that should be opening up in February while the stable Linux 5.12 debut will happen likely by/around May. With this initial pull does come some new features and improvements around the recent AMD graphics processor support additions...

AMD GPU Driver In Linux 5.12 Gets RX 6000 Series OverDrive, FP16 For More Hardware  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2020 - 2025)  Business-newsupdate.com

Wine 6.0-rc6 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 that will be released in the near future. Either due to nearing the end of the release cycle and/or Wine developers having a post-holiday hangover, Wine 6.0-RC6 is coming in light on new fixes...

As noted before the holidays that Mozilla Firefox was ready to enable AVIF image decoding by default, now that the holidays have passed and developers back to their keyboards, Firefox today has re-enabled AVIF by default...

Nvidia has patched several serious security flaws affecting Windows and Linux devices  TechRadar

Nvidia has patched several serious security flaws affecting Windows and Linux devices  TechRadar

LG's new edge AI SoC debuts on Ubuntu dev kit  LinuxGizmos.com

Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 Learn Linux Bundle  Techdirt