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Announcing Identity Bridge: Streamline authentication and authorization for Unix and Linux  Security Boulevard

There are just a handful of games like Battlefield 4, Thief, and others that can make use of AMD's long-deprecated Mantle graphics API as the predecessor to modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and Direct3D 12. Mantle never was brought to Linux given the emphasis quickly turned to Vulkan within The Khronos Group, but now with the open-source "GRVK" project it's being mapped on top of Vulkan...

GRVK Allows AMD's Deprecated Mantle API To Run Atop Vulkan  Phoronix

GRVK Allows AMD's Deprecated Mantle API To Run Atop Vulkan  Phoronix

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Report: Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Types & Market Analysis by Application  Exchange 99

How to install Deepin DDE on Ubuntu 20.04 | 19.04 | 18.04 LTS Linux  H2S Media

Apollo Lake thin clients come pre-integrated with IGEL OS  LinuxGizmos.com

Spiritfarer Available Now on PC, Linux, Mac, Switch, and Xbox One  Niche Gamer

Kali Linux gets a GUI desktop in Windows Subsystem for Linux  BleepingComputer

Gentoo-Based PBXware 6.1 Turnkey Telephony Platform Released with New Features  LXer

Kali Linux 2020.3 begins journey of replacing Bash with ZSH  BleepingComputer

Now Out: Uno Platform 3.0 (C# + WinUI), Previewing Linux Support  Visual Studio Magazine

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Top Key Players | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  Scientect

Linux-Fu: One At A Time, Please! Critical Sections In Bash Scripts  Hackaday

Given the uncertainty created by Mozilla laying off roughly a quarter of their staff last week that did include some Rust developers and in looking to further along the Rust ecosystem in its own right, the Rust core developers in cooperation with Mozilla are working to form the Rust Foundation...

A few weeks back Alibaba announced the "XT910" as the fastest RISC-V processor featuring 16 cores and clock speeds up to 2.5GHz while being manufactured on a 12nm node. This by far beats most RISC-V hardware currently available and now at this week's Hot Chips conference the Chinese company is reporting that the XT910 is faster than an Arm Cortex-A73...

TensorFlow Lite for AI inference on mobile devices now has support for making use of OpenCL on Android devices. In doing so, the TFLite performance presents around a 2x speed-up over the existing OpenGL back-end...

Remote Workers Need Windows to be in the Cloud  XaaS Journal

Ahead of the big Qt 6.0 release expected before the end of the year, Debian's current Qt package maintainers have decided to step down...

NVIDIA today released 450.66 as their latest stable Linux graphics driver update...