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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

KDE developers remain very busy this autumn working on fixes for the recently released Plasma 5.20 and related software...

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Predictable to Witness Sustainable Evolution with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE, Manjaro  Eurowire

Linux Operating System Market to See Huge Growth by 2026 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  PRnews Leader

Since 2012 there has been a quirk in the Linux kernel to disable/override using ACPI _PSD data on all AMD processors as a workaround in turn for Windows-specific behavior that clashes with the semantics of the Linux ACPI CPUFreq driver for CPU frequency scaling. With AMD Zen 3 this quirk is no longer needed to behave correctly and thus Linux 5.10 is going to drop this eight year old quirk on Zen 3 and newer...

Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround  Phoronix