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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...

Intel Compute Runtime Update Adds OpenCL + oneAPI Level Zero For DG1  Phoronix

First Arch Linux Snapshot Powered by Linux Kernel 5.7 Is Here  LXer

Will Red Hat Rule the Supercomputing Industry with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)?  Toolbox

When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows?  ZDNet

Purism Launches Librem 14 Security-Focused Linux Laptop  PCMag

You may recall that earlier this year X.Org/FreeDesktop.org may have to cut CI services for developers over the cloud expenses associated with that continuous integration service for the likes of Mesa, the X.Org Server, and other components. CI usage was leading to a lot of bandwidth consumption so much so that the X.Org Foundation is facing potential ~70k USD cloud costs this year largely from their continuous integration setup...

Mesa CI Optimization Could Provide Big Bandwidth Savings  Phoronix

The "V3DV" Vulkan driver being developed by Igalia under contract with the Raspberry Pi Foundation has offered a status update on this official driver for the Raspberry Pi 4...

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Review: The Most Complete OS For Everyone  Fossbytes

Approaching the two year anniversary next month of the L1TF / Foreshadow vulnerability, a Google engineer has proposed allowing the default mitigation state to be controlled via a Kconfig build-time option...