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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

Lenovo unveils IdeaPad laptops, including a 5G connected one with a Snapdragon 8cx chipset - comments  GSMArena.com

TeamTNT actors advance Linux-targeting trend with new memory loader  SC Magazine

Ampere Altra vs. Amazon Graviton2 Linux Performance Benchmarks  Phoronix

Last month we provided benchmarks of Ampere Altra against Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC with the Q80-33 CPUs in a 2P / 160 core configuration. From that article, reader questions were raised about how this high performance ARM server chip compares to Amazon's Graviton2 processors, so in this article today are such benchmarks. The Graviton2 via an AWS m6g.metal instance with 64 cores was compared to the Ampere Altra Q80-33 in its 2P 160 core configuration, 1P 80 core configuration, and then a 64 core configuration to match the Graviton2 by disabling the excess cores.

Another NVIDIA engineer has made his first contribution to Mesa in the rather interesting focus of fixing up Volta so atomic operations will work with OpenCL SVM...

Linux Mint 20.1 long-term support release is out  Ghacks Technology News

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: Linux Foundation Gobbles Open19, Adds Cisco  SDxCentral

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20.1 'Ulyssa' is here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce  BetaNews

NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws affecting Windows, Linux devices  BleepingComputer

Coming out in early 2020 were patches by an Amazon engineer to implement flushing the L1 data cache on context switching in the name of security given the various data sampling vulnerabilities. That work so far has been rejected from the mainline kernel but today was updated and makes it harder to enable and thus moving forward could stand chances to finally see the opt-in functionality merged to mainline...

L1d Cache Flushing On Context Switch Trying Again But More Conservative In 2021  Phoronix

Linux Mint 20.1 is out today as the latest version of this user-friendly, desktop-focused Linux distribution built off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...