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It was just on Monday that Intel's talented open-source developers merged a hefty Tiger Lake graphics optimization into the Mesa 20.3 code that for some games/software can be around ~11% faster thanks to greater caching. Just a day later another optimization has arrived for helping these latest-generation Intel graphics...

One of the most interesting (and perhaps one of the most important as well) directories in a Linux system is /var/log. According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, the activity of most services running in

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This week's Vulkan 1.2.158 spec release brought the fragment shading rate extension to control the rate at which fragments are shaded on a per-draw, per-primitive, or per-region basis. This can be useful similar to OpenGL and Direct3D support for helping to allow different, less important areas of the screen be shaded less than areas requiring greater detail/focus...

We’ve always maintained that a diverse and inclusive organization thrives when people from different backgrounds feel comfortable being their full self when they’re at work. This includes sharing and celebrating holidays and traditions with colleagues that are important to their culture or heritage. At Red Hat, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) communities are a rich source for associates to have new experiences and learn from others with different backgrounds.

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The AMDGPU open-source Linux kernel graphics driver continues seeing work on next-generation GPU support around the forthcoming "Big Navi" GPUs...

Radeon Linux Driver Seeing "MALL" Feature For Big Navi  Phoronix

Uno Platform Ports Windows Calculator to Linux  Visual Studio Magazine

Lilbits: Google’s antitrust woes, new Intel and AMD chips, and MS Edge for Linux (for some reason)  Liliputing

A Quick Look At Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs. 20.10 With The Core i9 10900K  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 20.10 due for release this week I have begun testing near-final Ubuntu 20.10 builds on many more systems in the lab. Larger than our normal distribution/OS comparisons, here is the culmination of running hundreds of benchmarks (366 tests to be exact) under both Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all available updates and then again on the Ubuntu 20.10 development state while testing on Intel Comet Lake.

Best Linux Laptops (Updated 2020)  Screen Rant

Steam Proton Updated To 5.13 Making Red Dead Redemption 2 Playable On Linux  Happy Gamer

Microsoft's new Edge browser officially lands on Linux in preview, now runs on all the major platforms  OnMSFT

Mesa 20.3 has merged a long work-in-progress patch series providing support for going from the modern NIR intermediate representation to TGSI as the conventional Gallium3D IR...

Microsoft releases Chromium-based Edge preview for Linux  ZDNet

Microsoft Edge for Linux preview now available in the Dev channel  Windows Central

Btrfs on CentOS: Living with Loopback  Linux Journal

Not only is there a new OpenBSD release this week but the NetBSD crew also issued a big update in the form of NetBSD 9.1...

USB 3 problems - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer