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Proton Experimental 5.13-20210107 is out today as the first 2021 release of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Following last month's initial benchmarks of the AMD "znver3" support that landed in the GCC 11 compiler was a request by a premium supporter to see the AMD Zen 3 benchmarks at more compiler optimizations. Well, here are those numbers for those wanting to pursue aggressive compiler optimizations on a shiny AMD Ryzen 9 5950X.

While Intel is generally well regarded for their Linux development practices especially as it pertains to continuous integration and their test labs for vetting code prior to reaching the mainline Linux kernel to minimize the risk of regressions or other unintended side effects, those running older Haswell GT1 low-end graphics have seen the past several kernel versions going back a half-year yield a GPU hang at boot...

Download Mx Linux ISO 64-bit or 32-bit for PC or Laptop - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to quickly check to see if your Linux server is under a DDoS attack from a single IP address  TechRepublic

Run commands on Windows 10 startup in Windows Subsystem for Linux  TheWindowsClub

Intel has released their High Performance Computing Reference Stack 2.0 as the latest Docker image optimized for HPC/AI workloads...

150 open-spec, community-backed Linux SBCs under $200  LinuxGizmos.com

Alyssa Rosenzweig who is known for her work on reverse-engineering Arm GPUs and in particular the multi-year effort so far working on the Panfrost open-source driver stack has taken up an interest in Apple's M1 graphics processor...

Early Work Is Underway On Reverse-Engineering The Apple M1 GPU  Phoronix

The GNOME Shell user experience improvements and other components continue in development at full-speed for the GNOME 40 release due out in March...

Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed  Phoronix

NVIDIA today released the 460.32.03 Linux graphics driver as their first stable release in the 460 driver series...

NVIDIA 460.32.03 Linux Driver Released With Official Vulkan Ray-Tracing  Phoronix

Red Hat OpenShift supports both Windows and Linux containers  ZDNet

The Intel-developed IWD Linux wireless daemon is out with its first feature release of 2021...

WSL distros can now run Linux commands on startup in Windows 10  BetaNews

Surprisingly it has taken until 2021 but the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver now supports using the company's own Radeon GPU Profiler...

NVIDIA's Wayland support is finally coming together albeit long overdue with DMA-BUF passing support and now patches pending against XWayland for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan hardware acceleration with their proprietary driver...

Linux malware authors use Ezuri Golang crypter for zero detection  BleepingComputer