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For being a virtual event, AMD's keynote for Computex Taipei 2021 is filled with quite a bit of excitement and multiple product announcements. Here are the highlights for AMD's new announcements at Computex 2021.

Update_upgrade errors - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

AMD currently just supports Vulkan ray-tracing with their Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards while now there is independent work being done on Mesa's unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) to allow ray-tracing to work with older generations of GPUs like Vega and Polaris...

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20.2 named 'Uma'  BetaNews

Pi IoT In C Using Linux Drivers - The SPI Driver  iProgrammer

Virtuozzo Launches A Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux For The Public  EnterpriseTalk

Virtuozzo Launches A Mature Linux Distribution VzLinux For The Public  EnterpriseTalk

This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking...

Turns 17 Years Old This Week - Phoronix  Phoronix

As another major Chinese corporate joins its ranks, OIN approaches an inflection point  IAM

Nyxt Browser is a Keyboard-oriented Web Browser Inspired by Emacs and Vim  It's FOSS

Genode OS as the from-scratch open-source operating system framework built atop a micro-kernel abstraction layer and various original user-space components is out with its version 21.05 update...

Genode OS 21.05 Released With Webcam Support, Encrypted File Vault  Phoronix

Emirates News Agency – TII’s Secure Systems Research Centre joins Linux Foundation’s Dronecode  Toys Matrix

Linux Operating System Market Top Companies Data 2021, Industry Share, Demand and Revenue Growth Opportunities – NyseNewsRoom  NyseNewsRoom

One of Valve's many open-source projects is GameNetworkingSockets as a basic transport layer for games to handle UDP-based messaging, P2P networking, encryption, IPv6, and other network handling functionality of particular use to games / game engines...

In recent months there has been a lot of Linux kernel patches for bringing up Alder Lake S and Alder Lake P while more recently the enablement patches for Alder Lake M low-power mobile has begun...

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan has landed the latest XWayland improvements into X.Org Server Git for primarily benefiting the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack...

Simple CPU throttling isn't sufficient for cooling some NVIDIA Tegra devices running the upstream Linux kernel so thermal cooling integration into the device frequency "devfreq" scaling code is in the work for such high performance NVIDIA SoCs...

Future Of Linux Operating System Market. Latest Research Report 2021. Major Players – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. – NyseNewsRoom  NyseNewsRoom