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The latest Vulkan extension now supported by Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is support for the new VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate...

NuTyX 20.12.0 Linux Distro Released With Three Initialization System  Fossbytes

Linux 5.10 LTS release – Main changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V architectures  CNX Software

Radicle: An Open-Source Decentralized App for Code Collaboration [P2P GitHub Alternative]  It's FOSS

Community Concerns Prompt Red Hat to Drop CentOS for CentOS Stream  ITPro Today

The Linux kernel this year has seen new safeguards and efforts aiming to have user-space reduce their arbitrary poking of CPU machine specific registers (MSRs) in the name of security and other handling concerns. That effort has continued on with the Linux 5.11 cycle...

Linux Continues Crackdown On User-Space Poking CPU MSRs  Phoronix

CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone  ZDNet

The initial test release of Git 2.30 is now available for evaluation of this distributed revision control system...

Ultra-compact Apollo Lake net appliance has mini-PCIe and M.2 too  LinuxGizmos.com

It was just yesterday evening -- less than 24 hours ago -- that Linux 5.10 LTS was released but already the first point release has arrived due to bugs in the storage code...

Linux 5.10 Didn't Even Last 24 Hours... Linux 5.10.1 Released Due To Bugs  Phoronix

The first set of major file-system material submitted for the newly opened Linux 5.11 merge window are the Btrfs updates...

Btrfs Has Many Nice Improvements, Better Performance With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

How to install Spotify on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux-driven router/gateway unleashes 5G NR  LinuxGizmos.com

news digest: Linux 5.10 released, GrammaTech's DARPA research contract, and ML Kit Entity Extraction - SD Times  SDTimes.com

Back in October Intel announced Iris Xe MAX as discrete graphics for laptops. The overall Linux state for Xe MAX hasn't been too clear and we haven't had any hardware access to this Intel laptop discrete graphics hardware to report our own findings, but their developers have now cleared up the situation. The good news is the Xe MAX graphics can be used for a GPU-accelerated Linux virtual machine. The bad news is the Xe MAX support doesn't yet allow for dGPU usage by the host outside of a virtual machine context as it needs "two different [Linux] kernels" for operation in conjunction with the integrated graphics...

Earlier this year work began on preparing SD Express card/host support for Linux and now with the Linux 5.11 kernel that will debut in early 2021 is this preliminary support...

Project Halium for the past several years has allowed various Linux distributions to build atop the likes of libhybris and other abstractions for running on hardware with Android pre-installed. This abstraction layer has been popular from KDE Plasma Mobile to UBports to Sailfish OS while now Plasma Mobile is discontinuing their support...