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The Linux IO_uring interface for driving some major efficiency improvements in the Linux I/O stack is really screaming when paired with Intel's next-gen Ice Lake Xeon server platforms and the Intel Gen2 "Alder Stream" Optane solid-state drives...

Intel Xeon Ice Lake, Gen2 Optane + Linux's IO_uring Yielding Up To 2.58M IOPS Per Core  Phoronix

Microsoft Adds Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Support in Windows 10 Versions 1903 and 1909  Redmondmag.com

KylinOS, the national operating system based on Linux with which China wants to breastfeed in the face of Trump’s commercial pressure  Explica

Along with this week marking the release of oneAPI Level Zero 1.0, the oneAPI Data Parallel C++ compiler has seen its newest tagged release...

How to install Roblox Studio on a Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

101 essential Google Chrome browser keyboard shortcuts for Mac, PC, and Linux users - Business Insider  Business Insider

Coming as a surprise last week was word of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS read-write driver as a significant improvement over the existing NTFS Linux kernel driver. An updated patch series for that much improved NTFS Linux kernel driver is now available...

Paragon Sends Out Updated NTFS Driver They Want To Mainline For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Lucifer Botnet Now Can Target Linux Devices  BankInfoSecurity.com

AMD engineers responsible for their official Vulkan driver code-base have issued their first updated open-source snapshot in two weeks for AMDVLK fans...

With Linux 5.9 comes the ability to compress the Linux kernel image / initrd with Zstd for yielding faster boot speeds but at a compression ratio between Gzip and XZ/LZMA. Being proposed next with the widespread adoption of Facebook's Zstd is compressing the kernel microcode/firmware files...

Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware  Phoronix

Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware  Phoronix

The Best Emulators for Playing Retro Games on Modern Devices  PCMag

The UBports' Ubuntu Touch crew has been focusing a lot lately on improving their support for the popular, budget-friendly PineTab tablet and PinePhone smartphone. The next OTA release will bring more improvements for fans of these PINE Allwinner-powered devices...

For the past two summers student developer Giuliano Belinassi has been working under Google Summer of Code in working to address GCC parallelization bottlenecks and ultimately a goal of allowing single source files to be split up for compilation in parallel by GCC. In particular, being able to split the compilation of large source files across multiple CPU cores. The latest patches on this "-fparallel-jobs=" was sent out today as we approach the end of GSoC 2020...

GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup  Phoronix

The Chinese-developed C-SKY CPU architecture for 32-bit SoCs and embedded processors could soon see an LLVM back-end to complement the C-SKY support found since GCC 9...

LLVM Backend In Development For China's C-SKY Embedded CPUs  Phoronix