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Garuda Linux "Black Eagle" Released With A New Dr460nized edition  Fossbytes

This summer Intel disabled frame-buffer compression for Gen12 Tiger Lake graphics. While FBC helps conserve memory bandwidth and can be beneficial to power-savings, under-run issues and related problems resorted Intel to disabling this common feature for Tiger Lake...

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Top Company Profile: Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo etc.  PRnews Leader

Kali Linux 2020.4 switches the default shell from Bash to ZSH  BleepingComputer

Earlier this year we reported on Linux kernel work for better handling Windows games/apps that make system call instructions that bypass the Windows API. Directly making the system calls without going through the WinAPI has become an increasingly common occurrence for modern Windows games, likely as part of their Digital Rights Management schemes. Syscall User Dispatch is now the latest take on that effort...

Linux Syscall User Dispatch Close To Mainline For Better Handling Windows Games  Phoronix

Advantages of Using Linux Virtual Machine or Linux Server Hosting  Programming Insider

Building A Dashcam With The Raspberry Pi Zero W  Linux Journal

The second release candidate of Mesa 20.3 is now available for testing ahead of its likely stable debut in early December...

Announced during the summer was Intel's Maple Ridge controller in the form of the Intel JHL8540 / JHL8340 chips as their first discrete Thunderbolt / USB4 controllers. Linux support for the Intel Maple Ridge controller is now on the way...

Linux Support Published For Intel's "Maple Ridge" Thunderbolt Controller  Phoronix

Servo Rehomed With Linux Foundation  iProgrammer

Best Arch-based Linux distros of 2020  TechRadar

The last piece of the puzzle to the open-source AMD Radeon RX 6800 / RX 6800 XT driver support is now upstream in its respective location...

Radeon RX 6800 "Sienna Cichlid" Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git  Phoronix

Purism has started shipping the production version of its GNU / Linux smartphone after completing the quality control steps and runtime.  re:Jerusalem

Microsoft gives Linux a security boost with these new attack detection tools  TechRepublic

While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q4.4 was released, AMD has made good on their word to provide punctual AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver support for their new RDNA 2 "Big Navi" graphics cards and that has resulted in a new AMDVLK release...

Release of EmmaDE3 1.03 Distribution – Blogs – re:Jerusalem  re:Jerusalem

Mir 2.2 is out this morning as the newest update to this Wayland compositor and display server...