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The sixth spin of Intel DG1 discrete graphics card patches have now been sent out for review, amounting to just about 700 lines of new driver code due to building off the existing DG1 work and more broadly the Gen12/Xe support that's been refined in mainline for months. With these patches it would appear the Intel DG1 is then in good shape under Linux but due to the timing is unlikely to be mainlined until a stable kernel release in early 2021...

Linux Software Market to Witness an Outstanding Growth during 2019-2025  The Daily Chronicle

Last week on the GNU toolchain side was initial work on supporting Intel Key Locker while this week Key Locker support has come to LLVM...

Xen: Our hypervisor now runs on Raspberry Pi 4 – but Pi's quirks made life tricky  ZDNet

NVIDIA's Linux Vulkan beta driver build has moved from the 450 series that it's been on for a while to the current 455 branch...

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Moves To 455 Series For Linux  Phoronix

Recovering deleted files on Linux with testdisk  Network World

How to install Subsonic free music server on Ubuntu 20.04 linux  H2S Media

Impact Of COVID-19 On Linux Operating System Market 2020 Industry Challenges, Business Overview And Forecast Research Study 2026  Crypto Daily

Stacer is a GUI based application written in C++ to monitor and optimize Linux OS. The latest build version of Stacer is 1.1.0, which provides all in one stop for our common activities we

The post Stacer - Linux System Optimizer & Monitoring Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux Operating System Market Swot Analysis by key players: IBM, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Linux  MENAFN.COM

Did you know that you can run a Linux command line on your iOS device? You might be asking, "why would I want to use text-based applications on my tiny iPhone?" OK, fair enough. That is a pretty reasonable question. But if you're reading Opensource.com, you probably know the answer: Linux users want to be able to use any device, and they also want to use their own customizations.

And most of all, they want a challenge.

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NVIDIA Sends Out Latest Linux Kernel Patches For 1GB THP To Help Boost Performance  Phoronix

NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan sent out on Monday his latest "1GB PUD THP" patches in aiming to boost application performance on Linux for software making use of large amounts of RAM...

The Open Source Definition (OSD), maintained by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), is a foundational pillar of the open source movement. The OSI's view is that software validly labeled "open source" must be made available in a manner that satisfies the 10 criteria set forth in the OSD, all but one of which pertain to licensing terms.

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Although I'm only 20 years old, I've already had many opportunities to help build solutions for a better tomorrow. I've worked with open source technology, research publishing, media, and development. I have served as an administartor and mentor in Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, and Google Season of Docs with Codeuino, Sugar Labs, Jboss Community, Terasology Foundation, and Open Collective. But my start in open source and technology was not very good.

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How to Install Windows 10 on a Chromebook  Beebom

For those making use of the "MT76" WiFi driver for Mediatek MT76 series wireless support, the Linux 5.10 kernel should be a nice upgrade...

As we approach the end of Q3'2020 there have been 783 original news articles on Phoronix this quarter and another 40 featured reviews / multi-page articles. Here is a look back at what's been keeping readers informed during this turbulent year...

Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3  Phoronix