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The Valve-backed ACO shader compiler for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has been an enormous success story where this year it's been the default as opposed to AMD's officially supported AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end as pretty much for all major Linux gaming workloads is delivering superior performance. RADV+ACO performance has been so great that gamers have been eager to see the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver also adapted to see ACO as an option to the same AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Well, experimental patches have finally materialized...

HP's Linux Imaging and Printing Drivers Now Support Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 10.6  LXer

Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon: How to set up WiFi - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The hypervisor advantage  New Electronics

While for a while the Linux 5.10 development was trending concerningly high on changes late in the cycle, 5.10-rc7 is out today and Linus Torvalds appears comfortable in planning to release the 5.10 kernel next weekend...

Linux 5.10-rc7 Arrives - Linux 5.10 LTS Debut Expected Next Weekend  Phoronix

While the Debian 11 "Bullseye" freezes don't get started until January, the Debian Installer for Bullseye has been in alpha for just over a year. Today marks the third alpha release of the Debian Installer for Bullseye...

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 3 Switches To Linux 5.9, Larger /boot  Phoronix

Intel + Microsoft Continue Work On Replacing More SMM "Black Boxes" With PRM  Phoronix

Given all the headaches and concerns from the early days of UEFI SecureBoot, for longtime Linux users hearing Microsoft is working on another firmware-level standard in the name of security may raise concerns... Microsoft in conjunction with Intel has been spearheading the Platform Runtime Mechanism (PRM) that is about moving more code out of the System Management Mode (SMM) and executing it within the OS/VMM context. PRM remains a work-in-progress but the Windows support is already ready within Windows Insiders builds while the Linux support will come after the ACPI specification around it has been finalized...

Debian GNU/Linux 10.7 “Buster” Is Now Available for Download with 38 Security Updates  LXer

Following last month's Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 Milestone 1 development release that brought many improvements to our open-source, cross-platform automated benchmarking software a second development release is now available...

How to install Virtualbox on Manjaro Linux latest version - Linux Shout  H2S Media

One of the surprises this year in the Linux kernel world was Paragon Software wanting to upstream their "NTFS3" kernel driver that supports read-write operations on Microsoft NTFS file-systems and is much more full-featured than the existing read-focused NTFS kernel driver or the user-space NTFS FUSE driver. The driver hasn't yet been mainlined but continues to be updated in preparing for that milestone...

The New NTFS Linux Driver Updated With Better Compression Handling  Phoronix

How to install Stremio in Manjaro Linux without command line - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Enable AUR repository on Manjaro Linux to install packages - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Global Linux Computer Market Expected To Reach Highest CAGR By 2026: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers etc.  Cheshire Media

Dell's Linux engineers continue working on improving the Linux kernel's handling around S0ix ACPI sub-states for greater energy savings...

Better support for Microsoft Surface laptops on Linux is slowly coming to the mainline kernel...