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Beginning with Mesa 20.2 is OpenGL 4.5 support for LLVMpipe, the LLVM-based software rasterizer built as a Gallium3D driver. This succeeded LLVMpipe for years being limited to OpenGL 3.3. While the OpenGL 4.5 support has been enabled for weeks, The Khronos Group has now officially confirmed its implementation...

Linux Foundation Public Health wants to combat COVID-19 with free apps - Business Insider  Business Insider

The Linux kernel's frame-buffer console (FBCON) is set to drop accelerated scrolling support since it isn't widely used and now found to be "full of bugs" plaguing the code-base...

Linux Frame-Buffer Console To Drop Accelerated Scrolling Since It's Full Of Bugs  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Public Health wants to combat COVID-19 with free apps - Business Insider  Business Insider

Canonical has announced ETrace as a new application tracing tool designed for debugging and performance profiling of Snap packages but can also be used with any Linux binary applications...

Canonical Announces ETrace As New Linux Application Tracing For Performance/Debugging  Phoronix

Intel Compute-Runtime 20.43.18277 is out this morning as the latest version of the company's open-source graphics compute stack for HD/UHD/Iris/Xe Graphics on Linux with OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support...

Microsoft makes it easier to install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10  Ghacks Technology News

On top of the AMD Zen L3 cache optimizations hitting Mesa 20.3 today, Marek Olšák has also landed his RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code for optimizing OpenGL uber shaders...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 adds roles, tunings, profiles, app streams, containers. That's it. • DEVCLASS  DevClass

New Windows 10 preview brings automatic Linux distro installation to WSL  TechRepublic

How to install Linux distros in Windows 10's WSL 2  BetaNews

You may recall going back to 2018 that well known open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olsak was working on Mesa optimizations around the AMD Zen architecture. In particular, better handling of Mesa for Zen's L3 cache design. A rewritten implementation of that has now landed along with some other improvements...

More than a decade ago Linux users tended to be envious of Sun Microsystems' Solaris for ZFS and DTrace as the two most interesting technical selling points of the platform. In that time OpenZFS is now extremely vibrant for offering ZFS on BSD and Linux systems while DTrace is barely brought up these days. This tracing framework originally developed for Solaris was fantastic back in the day but over the years Linux has stepped up its game with various efforts. Now as we hit the end of 2020, Oracle engineers continue working on bringing better DTrace support to Linux...

Oracle Continues Building DTrace For Linux Atop BPF  Phoronix

Using the Midnight Commander to browse Linux directories  Network World

PolarBerry is a Compact, Linux-capable RISC-V FPGA SBC and module (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

Intel starts publishing Vulkan Linux driver  Fudzilla

Global Linux Operating System Market 2020 Recovering From Covid-19 Outbreak | Know More About Brand Players  Eurowire