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Linux 5.8-rc3 Released - Fairly Big But Not Particularly Scary  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just pushed out Linux 5.8-rc3 as the newest weekly test candidate for the upcoming Linux 5.8 that should debut as stable around early August...

Tecadmin - A Linux Tutorial For Professionals - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

While Ubuntu continues in their path of OpenZFS integration, Fedora is revisiting the possibility of using Btrfs on the desktop, Red Hat is continuing to invest in Stratis, and Reiser5 is being developed, Bcachefs as the file-system born out of the Linux block cache code is continuing to evolve...

Bcachefs Linux File-System Seeing Performance Improvements, Other Progress  Phoronix

While we are most excited about Godot 4.0 for its Vulkan renderer for this leading open-source game engine, there continues to be a lot of other improvements building up for this major release...

What Operating System Is the Best Choice for Software Engineers?  Interesting Engineering

Intel's open-source media team has released a new development snapshot of their media driver that provides GPU-accelerated video encode/decode capabilities on Linux...

The open-source Haiku operating system that continues maintaining compatibility with BeOS and inspiration from its design has continued in its quest of better supporting modern hardware...

The Linux kernel is seeing some modern work done to its driver for supporting the Apple Desktop Bus on Macintosh II era systems...

In 2020 The Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work For The Macintosh II  Phoronix

In 2020 The Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work For The Macintosh II  Phoronix

At least 109 organizations are currently working on treatment for COVID-19. But many researchers believe an approved, effective vaccine against the coronavirus will not be available in 2020.

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It took until 2020 for an Intel developer to land a patch providing support for two instructions supported by AMD "Excavator" CPUs but not exposed by the "bdver4" target...

Linux Mint 20 Final has been released  Ghacks Technology News

Following Linux's UEFI code getting cleaned up earlier this year in preparation for RISC-V support being added and then some early RISC-V UEFI patches, a more comprehensive set of patches for enabling UEFI support on RISC-V under Linux have been sent out...

An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2  Phoronix

Our recent benchmarks have shown WSL/WSL2 performance on the latest Windows 10 builds to generally be quite good compared to running bare metal Linux. But past the May 2020 Update and on the latest Insider Preview builds is the initial support for GPU acceleration in conjunction with updated Windows graphics drivers. The initial emphasis is on GPU compute with DirectML and for NVIDIA hardware CUDA support as well. Here are a couple CUDA benchmarks that ran gracefully under WSL2 albeit the performance leaves a lot to be desired...

Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang  Phoronix

This leading open-source physically based renderer is about to get even better with the upcoming LuxCore 2.4 release...