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DragonFlyBSD has been generally working out well for AMD Zen systems sans a few motherboard specific woes, but now is getting even better thanks to importing some new drivers from FreeBSD...

DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Temperature Driver, SMN Support From FreeBSD  Phoronix

Hacking: Networking and Security (2 Books in 1: Hacking with Kali Linux & Networking for Beginners)  Digital Market News

Facebook engineer Song Liu has sent out a set of patches for "BPF_PROG_TYPE_USER" as a new BPF type for the Linux kernel focused on better supporting user programs...

Facebook Engineer Improving BPF "User Programs" Support  Phoronix

Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel DG1 To AMD Navi 2 To New CPU Capabilities  Phoronix

The Linux 5.9 kernel merge window will open up immediately upon the release of Linux 5.8, which is expected to happen this evening unless Linus Torvalds decides to stave it off for one week to allow for additional testing. In any case, once Linux 5.9 kicks off there are a lot of changes expected...

Incredibly it has taken until now with Wine-Staging 5.14 to implement more than just a stub to Wine's FINDSTR program implementation. Yes, the long-standing command to search for strings...

Linux Software Market Size 2020 Industry Share, Strategies, Growth Analysis, Regional Demand, Revenue, Key Players and 2026 Forecast Research Report  Owned

Computer Hacking: This Book Includes: Hacking for Beginners, Hacking with Kali Linux, Hacking Tools for Computers  Digital Market News

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A few days back we wrote of Intel's ISPC compiler landing GPU code generation support for their UHD/Iris/Xe Graphics from Gen9 Skylake and beyond. Following that code being merged, ISPC 1.14.0 was quickly tagged...

Rust Maybe Coming To The Linux Kernel, Other Open-Source Milestones For July  Phoronix

Even with the coronavirus pandemic, the distributed open-source and Linux communities continue advancing with great new features and improvements. During the course of July on Phoronix were 266 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / benchmark featured articles...

Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux  Phoronix

While some platforms like Netmarketshare have reported increases month-over-month for Linux desktop usage, that doesn't appear to be translating similarly to the Linux gaming market-share, or at least not at the rate Steam is growing on Windows and macOS. Valve has just published their July 2020 numbers that are part of the Steam Survey...

Valve's Steam July 2020 Numbers Point To A Small Dip For Linux  Phoronix

Primarily driven currently by Arm big.LITTLE use-cases like high-end smartphones where you may be running on battery and not want to boost the CPU performance too high for real-time (RT) tasks, Linux 5.9 is adding new capabilities around setting the default boost value...

Linux 5.9 Adding New Knob To Control Default Boost Value For Real-Time Workloads  Phoronix

FNA FAudio 20.08 Released With WMA Decoding Powered By GStreamer  Phoronix