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Patches are pending that can sharply speed-up mount times of large EXT4 file-systems...

EXT4 Seeing Work To Speed Up Mount Times For Large File-Systems  Phoronix

The tech sector is quietly having a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Open source developers are getting involved with many aspects of the fight against the coronavirus, using Python to visualize its spread and helping to repurpose data acquisition systems to perform contact tracing.

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AMDGPU Patches Under Discussion For Better External GPU Hot Unplug Handling  Phoronix

While Radeon graphics cards can work with various external GPU (eGPU) solutions, currently on Linux if trying to hot unplug such a setup can lead to various problems. An experimental patch series out this weekend is seeking to address that problem...

Pop!_OS 20.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Performance  Phoronix

A Phoronix Premium reader recently asked about whether Pop!_OS 20.04 performance differs from Ubuntu 20.04 given some underlying changes made by System76 to their distribution, besides the plethora of higher-level desktop improvements. Well, here are some benchmarks.

You may recall towards the end of last year when the Pango layout engine library dropped support for bitmap fonts, causing frustrations among some users. There now appears to be another Linux font debacle brewing...

The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some  Phoronix

5 reasons you might want to run Linux on your Chromebook  About Chromebooks

Managing Linux After SCCM Support EOL  Security Boulevard

Intel Rocket Lake Platform Support Added To Mesa 20.2  Phoronix

Open Source And Automotive Safety Critical Systems: What Are The Tradeoffs ?  Forbes

Debian 10.4 is out this weekend as their fourth stable update to Debian Buster...

Debian 10.4 Released With Many Fixes, Security Updates  Phoronix

Last week Intel open-source developers sent out their initial kernel driver patches for Rocket Lake graphics support and now the Rocket Lake platform support has been merged for Mesa 20.2 on the OpenGL/Vulkan driver side...

Ubuntu Studio, the spin of Ubuntu focused on multimedia production, announced last month that for their 20.10 release due out later this year they would be transitioning from their long-standing Xfce desktop environment over to using KDE Plasma. While still in early form, the transition is going ahead quite well...

Wine 5.8 was released on Friday with a GIF encoder, more WIneD3D Vulkan progress, and other changes while out today is Wine-Staging 5.8 for this experimental blend...

It's been another busy week for KDE developers even with everything happening globally around the coronavirus there are a lot of open-source desktop innovations continuing...

CPUs for Debian Buster - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer