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Microsoft Weekly: Edge on Linux, the October 2020 Update, and more games  Neowin

Alder Lake Support Published For The Open-Source Intel Compute Stack  Phoronix

This past week Intel began adding Alder Lake support to their Linux graphics driver and that also continued on the compute side with the Intel Compute-Runtime receiving initial support for Alder Lake S "ADLS" too...

While AMD has landed Znver3 support in GNU Binutils, the company hasn't yet sent out patches for either the GCC or LLVM/Clang compilers in setting up the Zen 3 target with its new instructions or optimized scheduling model / cost table. But a basic implementation has been merged to LLVM for allowing "-march=znver3" based on the limited public details thus far...

The last major release of the X.Org Server was in May 2018 but don't expect the long-awaited X.Org Server 1.21 to actually be released anytime soon...

Global Memory Management Units (Mmu) Market Research Report 2020 | Motorola, Linux Kernel, Atmel, Keil, Axis Communications, ARM, and more  re:Jerusalem

So How Good Is Edge on Linux?  Editorials 360

After six years serving as the LLVM release manager and taking over the role from LLVM founder Chris Lattner, Google's Hans Wennborg has stepped down from his position and handed it over to Red Hat's Tom Stellard...

How to manage file and folder permissions in Linux  TechRepublic

How to manage file and folder permissions in Linux  TechRepublic

In this edition of the "Managing with Open Values" series, we connected with another Open Organization Ambassador, Allison Matlack, to discover what she learned when she put open organization values into practice as a new manager.

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Not only is the Zink Gallium3D code for OpenGL accelerated by Vulkan up to around 69% the speed of Intel's OpenGL driver but it's at around a 97% passing test rate for Mesa's Piglit testing...

Chrome OS finally has a dark mode, and you can try it right now  Android Central

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is seeing plenty of improvements with the Linux 5.10 kernel...

KVM For Linux 5.10 Brings New "TDP" MMU To Help VMs With Hundreds Of vCPUs, TBs of RAM  Phoronix

FreeBSD has long supported a "nosymfollow" mount option to prevent following of symlinks on mounted file-systems while now the mainline Linux kernel is adding a similar security defense...

Linux 5.10 Adds "nosymfollow" Mount Option Security Defense  Phoronix

For the Intel Tiger Lake Linux benchmarking thus far with the Core i7 1165G7 on the Dell XPS 13 9310 it's primarily been compared against the Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4700U on the AMD side since those are the only Renoir units within my possession. But a Phoronix reader recently provided me with remote access to his Lenovo ThinkPad X13 with Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U (8 cores / 16 threads) for seeing how the Tiger Lake performance compares against that higher-end SKU...

GDB 10.1 is now shipping as a big update to the GNU Debugger...

Blast from the past: "Rastasoft" - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer