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Half-Life: Alyx gets a Linux release, level editing tools, Vulkan support, and more  Neowin

On launch-day Valve had Half-Life: Alyx running on Linux via Steam Play while with the VR game's latest update is now a Linux-native build and Vulkan rendering support...

Little Linux wireless gateway keeps it simple  LinuxGizmos.com

Little Linux wireless gateway keeps it simple  LinuxGizmos.com

How to enable SSL on Ubuntu Linux for testing  TechRepublic

How to fix the apt-add-repository error on a Chromebook that runs Linux apps  TechRepublic

Modicia OS Ultimate Comes With Cool, Unique UI Twists  LinuxInsider.com

Intel's oneAPI crew just released version 2020-03 (though one would have thought it should be 2020-05) of their Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler and with this release are several new features including the NVIDIA CUDA back-end...



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I installed PlayOnLinux on my Chromebook so you don’t have to  Chrome Unboxed

Microsoft's Brad Smith says company was “on the wrong side of history” regarding Linux  OnMSFT

This week Amazon announced the general availability of their EC2 "M6g" instances powered by their second-generation Graviton processors. Amazon is offering a variety of M6g instances with the Graviton2 CPU, including a bare metal instance. In this article are many benchmarks looking at the various Amazon EC2 M6g instances compared to other EC2 Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC instances as well as looking at the M6g Graviton2 metal performance up against various Intel/AMD CPUs in our lab.

PineTab Linux tablet goes up for pre-order this month for $100  Liliputing

Stinger96 SBC launches and joins 500-unit giveaway of STM32MP1x based 96Boards  LinuxGizmos.com

Weeks ahead of the Linux 5.8 kernel cycle kicking off it's still not clear if the Intel SGX foundation patches will be ready for merging, but they were sent out today as version 30 of this long-running effort for supporting the Intel enclaves functionality on the mainline kernel...

Intel SGX Linux Patches Posted For Their 30th Round Of Review  Phoronix

Intel SGX Linux Patches Posted For Their 30th Round Of Review  Phoronix

For Linux Desktop Users - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

For a number of months now various Google engineers have been working on inline encryption support for FSCRYPT in order to offer better encryption performance on modern SoCs. That FSCRYPT side work is coming together and now also queued up for Linux 5.8 is plumbing inline encryption into blk-mq...

Linux 5.8's Multi-Queue Block Code Plumbed To Support Inline Encryption  Phoronix