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Install Lubuntu 20.04 – A Lightweight Linux Desktop Environment

Tecmint - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 13:04

Lubuntu is an open-source distribution of Linux based on Ubuntu. It is lightweight, fewer resource hungry, more energy-efficient and uses an LXQT desktop environment. The initial release of Lubuntu has LXDE as their desktop

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OverlayFS Adds A "Volatile" Option - Faster Performance But All Syncs Are Omitted

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 12:00
OverlayFS as the Linux union mount file-system that allows combining multiple underlying mount points into one is seeing a new feature with Linux 5.10...

GCC 11 Ending Feature Development In One Month

Phoronix - Sat, 10/17/2020 - 02:42
The GNU Compiler Collection 11 (GCC 11) will be ending stage one development in mid-November to get the release process underway...

Intel Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" Linux Performance With The Dell XPS 13 9310

Phoronix - Fri, 10/16/2020 - 22:55
Here are our initial benchmarks of Intel Tiger Lake on Ubuntu Linux via the premium Core i7 1165G7 processor. This also appears to be the first public benchmarks of the new Dell XPS 13 9310 laptop that just-launched as the refreshed XPS notebook for Tiger Lake and with Intel EVO certification.

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