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KDE developers remain very active with improving this open-source desktop environment even amid the coronavirus pandemic...

The Khronos Group is celebrating the US Independence Day with the release of a new Vulkan spec...

Back in early 2017 "Mircade" was introduced as an arcade-style game launcher on Ubuntu powered by Mir. We hadn't heard much of Mircade since 2017 but the effort is still alive for this Mir-based launcher that can trigger various apps to run under Wayland/Mir...

Canonical Will No Longer Support Ubuntu 19.10 After July 17, 2020  Fossbytes

Interview – NXP Linux BSP and Timesys Vigiles Maintenance Service & Security Updates  CNX Software

While recent Firefox releases have seen VA-API video acceleration working when running natively under Wayland, the Firefox 80 release later this summer will bring VA-API support by default to those running on a conventional X.Org Server...

Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation  InfoQ.com

Whither Fuchsia? Will the new OS be Google's way to avoid sharing Linux code?  iTWire

Google could bring Steam gaming to Chromebooks (via Linux)  Liliputing

Wine 5.12 is out for the US Holiday weekend testing...

This 15.6 inch Linux laptop features an AMD Ryzen processor  Liliputing

There may be some brief, intermittent downtime this weekend as all of the Phoronix Media web server infrastructure is being upgraded. This also marks the first time in Phoronix's 16+ year history that the servers are AMD powered, thanks to the incredible success of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series...

Getting Citrix Receiver to work - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

XDC 20 was set to take place this September in Poland but is now moving to an online event as a result of the ongoing coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic...

The Annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa Conference Is Going Virtual Due To COVID-19  Phoronix

Linux-driven Comet Lake laptop offers security features and dual 4K display support  LinuxGizmos.com

How to Install Microsoft's VS Code Source Code Editor On Mac or Linux  ProgrammableWeb

XFS / EXT4 / Btrfs / F2FS / NILFS2 Performance On Linux 5.8  Phoronix

Given the reignited discussions this week over Btrfs file-system performance stemming from a proposal to switch Fedora on the desktop to using Btrfs, here are some fresh benchmarks of not only Btrfs but alongside XFS, EXT4, F2FS, and for kicks NILFS2 was also tossed into the mix for these mainline file-system tests off the in-development Linux 5.8 kernel.

Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their graphics hardware has now rolled out support for the DG1 Xe discrete graphics card...