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Steam On Linux Ticks Closer To 1.0%, AMD CPUs Now Power A Third Of Linux Gaming Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 12:00
Valve has updated their monthly Steam Hardware/Software Survey statistics for September and they indicate the closest we've seen in a while for Steam on Linux closing back in on the 1.0% threshold...

Ubuntu 20.10 Beta Released For Testing

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 08:26
The Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" beta is now available for testing of Ubuntu Desktop / Cloud / Server products as well as derivatives like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu...

OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 Released With Bug Fixes, Intel QAT Support For Newer Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 06:50
The third release candidate of OpenZFS 2.0 is now available for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently for Linux and FreeBSD platforms...

PHP 8.0 RC1 Released

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 05:29
The first release candidate of the big PHP 8.0 is now available for testing...

Ghostbusters - Linux 5.10 To Bring Rewritten Spectre Mitigations For 64-bit ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 03:00
Linux 5.10 is set to bring a major rework to the Spectre mitigation handling for the 64-bit ARM architecture...

Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/02/2020 - 01:36
It's always great starting off a new month seeing new work on low-level kernel optimizations...

Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 23:00
When Intel announced 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" last month it wasn't clear how long it would be until seeing systems actually appear with these new processors. Fortunately, the new Dell XPS systems with Tiger Lake and Intel EVO certification are on sale beginning today with shipping dates reported to be later this month...

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