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Earlier this week I provided the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Zen 2 mobile processor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and running within a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 (14). That initial article was focused on the CPU performance while for your viewing pleasure today are some preliminary benchmark numbers for the Vega 7 graphics up against Intel Gen11/Icelake.

How to create a bridge network on Linux with netplan  TechRepublic

Swift 5.3 Will Expand Officially Supported Platforms to Windows and Additional Linux Distributions  InfoQ.com

The name game: Naming network interfaces in Linux  stopthefud

The KDE community has released the first beta of the forthcoming Plasma 5.19 desktop release...

AGP Graphics Card Support Proposed For Removal From Linux Radeon/NVIDIA Drivers  stopthefud

COVID-19 Impact on: Linux Software Market Growth, Future, Size, Share And New Trends 2020 to 2025: Google, Twitter, Facebook  Jewish Life News

Originally slated for the NVIDIA GTC event but then delayed due to the coronavirus, the Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit is launching today for "cloud native computing" on edge/AI devices.

After 5 Years, Finnix 120 Released: One Of The Oldest System Rescue Linux Distros  Fossbytes

How to Set up a VPN on Linux  TechNadu

Raima and MontaVista Announce Strategic Partnership  PRNewswire

How to Use tmux on Linux (and Why It’s Better Than Screen)  How-To Geek

While yesterday GFX10/Navi soft recovery support was sent in to DRM-Next for Linux 5.8, today that material was sent in as a "fix" for Linux 5.7 along with a number of other AMDGPU driver alterations...

Linux 5.7 Seeing Radeon FreeSync Fixes, Back-Ported Soft Recovery For Navi  Phoronix

Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again  ZDNet

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 was released today as the newest version of this official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

AMDVLK 2020.Q2.3 Released With New Extension, Various Fixes  Phoronix

Announced back in March were the Marvell ThunderX3 Arm server processors with up to 96 cores per SoC and support for 4-way SMT to yield up to 384 threads per socket. These 7nm Arm server processors also support eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, and other competitive features for a 2020 server CPU. While we await to see how the ThunderX3 processors perform, the compiler support and other Linux software features are getting all buttoned up...

LLVM Lands Support For The Marvell ThunderX3  Phoronix

Linuxfx 10 Review: A Windows-Like Linux Distro On Top Of Ubuntu 20.04  Fossbytes