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Reiser5 was announced back on New Year's Eve with support for local volumes and supporting parallel scaling out and other improvements over the long-in-development but never mainlined Reiser4. While Reiser5 was not met with enthusiasm, Edward Shishkin has continued working on this next-generation file-system and today announced the latest round of improvements...

Reiser5 File-System Working On New Features Like Data Tiering, Burst Buffers  Phoronix

Microsoft is bent on bringing Linux desktop to Windows 10 users - Video  ZDNet

The crew working on the MSM DRM driver from Freedreno / Google / Code Aurora (Qualcomm) have an interesting batch of changes for this open-source GPU driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware come Linux 5.8...

Qualcomm Adreno 650 + 640 GPUs To Be Supported By Mainline Linux 5.8 Kernel  Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 5.8 cycle a quirk is being added to be able to reboot the 2009 era Apple MacBook without needing to boot with any special flags...

Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs  Phoronix

Linux 5.8 Picking Up A Quirk For Being Able To Reboot The 2009 MacBook Without Hangs  Phoronix

1. Linux chief says he's picking AMD over Intel  TechRadar India
2. Linux-creator Linus Torvalds joins Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips in embracing AMD over Intel  BetaNews
3. Linux creator ditches Intel, moves over to AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU  TweakTown
4. Linux 5.7-rc7 Kernel Released With It Looking To Be In Good Shape  Phoronix
5. Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC  The Register
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Free to Play Puzzle-Dating Sim Helltaker Now Available on Linux and Steam OS  Niche Gamer

T-Systems And Suse: Boost For Hana And Linux  E3zine.com

SHIFT13mi Linux-friendly tablet with replaceable mainboard scheduled for 2021 release  Liliputing

Currently if wanting to use Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync variable refresh rate support of the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver you need to be using the xf86-video-amdgpu X.Org driver for proper handling as well, but a port of the DDX bits to the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver is in the works...

Zynq Ultrascale+ Pico-ITX SBC offers Xilinx AI support  LinuxGizmos.com

One month after the big Phoronix Test Suite 9.6 release, Phoronix Test Suite 9.6.1 is out as the first and only planned point release to this quarter's feature series...

Announced over one month ago was KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin with an emphasis on improving the Wayland support and better embracing modern technologies. A beta of KWinFT is now available...

AMD Energy Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.8 For Core/Package Power Sensors  Phoronix

Landing this weekend in hwmon-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 5.8 kernel cycle is the recently reported on "amd_energy" driver for supporting AMD Zen/Zen2 core and package energy sensors...

For several years now GCC has offered a embeddable JIT compiler that for GPL applications can serve as a bytecode interpreter, an experimental Python compiler, and other possible use-cases with this libgccjit library. There now are patches pending for bringing libgccjit to Windows...

COVID-19 IMPACT ON MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Booming Segments Major Giants Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo  Cole of Duty