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Running Steam's Linux Build On FreeBSD Is Becoming Increasingly Capable For Gaming  Phoronix

For many years it's been possible to run Linux games on FreeBSD along with other Linux applications thanks to FreeBSD's "Linuxulator" Linux binary compatibility layer. With that more recently it's becoming possible to run even more recent games thanks to improvements to FreeBSD's graphics drivers, the Linux binary compatibility code, and other FreeBSD improvements -- Steam is even working out for more titles...

Back in February we covered Google's work on the Lyra voice/audio codec designed for fitting with very low bit-rate audio for speech compression in use-cases like WebRTC and video chatting even on the most limited Internet connections. Thanks to leveraging machine learning, Lyra can function at just 3kbps. The code to Lyra is now public...

How an MSP saved 15 days with Linux - Services  CRN Australia

A Guide to Backing Up Your Home Directory Using rsync. - Linux How-To and Tutorial Section  BleepingComputer

Linux Computer Market 2021 Is Booming Across the Globe by Share, Size, Growth, Segments and Forecast to 2027 | Top Players Analysis- Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, etc.  The Bisouv Network

Linux Software Market 2021 Industry Size, Share, Growth and Top Companies Analysis- Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc.  The Bisouv Network

AMD last week published a security whitepaper on Zen 3's Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) functionality introduced with Ryzen 5000 series and EPYC 7003 series processors. In the whitepaper they mentioned Linux patches were published for allowing this feature to be disabled if concerned about the security risk, well, today those patches were made public...

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Patches To Allow Disabling Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF)  Phoronix

Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2021: Leading Player Analysis, Global Market Size with COVID-19 Update By 2025  The Bisouv Network

How to create a VirtualBox virtual machine backup on a Linux host  TechRepublic

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs With Up To 40 Cores  Phoronix

Intel today is introducing the 3rd Gen "Ice Lake" Xeon Scalable processors that top out with the Xeon Platinum 8380 offering 40 cores with a 2.3GHz base frequency and 3.0GHz all-core turbo while having a 270 Watt TDP and launching for ~$8099 USD. Here are more details on the Intel Ice Lake Xeon Scalable line-up.

Linux System Engineer - Midrand - R370k PA at e-Merge IT Recruitment  IT-Online

Over the past two years we have seen a lot of Intel Linux kernel graphics driver work in preparing to support Intel discrete graphics cards. That work is still ongoing even for the DG1 graphics card that has been sampling to customers while Linux 5.13 will take things another step forward this summer...

Linux 5.13 - Another Step In Prepping Intel Discrete Graphics, Preferring Local Memory  Phoronix

Create Android Studio Linux Desktop Shortcut and Command-Line launcher  H2S Media

While Skylake was introduced a half-decade ago already, Intel's open-source engineers aren't done relentlessly optimizing for it and subsequent 14nm processors. Hitting the GCC 11 open-source compiler today was an optimization for benefiting Skylake through the likes of Cascade Lake with some possible performance benefits...

How to install Basemark GPU Benchmark on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux  H2S Media

Arch Linux Now Comes With Easier to Use Guided Installer  MUO - MakeUseOf