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AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal  Phoronix

With Steam and other online gaming platforms seeing record usage in recent weeks as a result of home isolation around the world as a result of the coronavirus, one of the matters of curiosity has been how this will impact the Linux gaming percentage...

Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent in his "char/misc" updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel several days later than normal...

Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions  Phoronix

Embedded Linux joins the Covid-19 battle  LinuxGizmos.com

Embedded Linux joins the Covid-19 battle  LinuxGizmos.com

Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux  Phoronix

Valve is finishing up work on Proton 5.0-6 as the next version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play. With Proton 5.0-6 are some promising improvements...

The recently covered NIR vectorization pass ported from AMD's ACO back-end for improving the open-source Intel Linux graphics performance has landed now in Mesa 20.1...

NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost  Phoronix

Huawei changes its patent story  ZDNet

Ada is a beautiful programming language when it comes to code safety with it continuing to be used by aircraft and other safety critical systems. There is now Ada++ as an unofficial fork of the language focused on making the language more accessible and friendlier in an era of the likes of Rust and Golang attracting much interest...

The PCI subsystem changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...

LMDE4: How Much Does Debian Matter?  LinuxInsider.com

Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS 'Focal Fossa' Beta now available for download  BetaNews

Compact, Linux-based computer extends I/O of networked systems  LinuxGizmos.com

Compact, Linux-based computer extends I/O of networked systems  LinuxGizmos.com

Made public in March was the Load Value Injection (LVI) attack affecting Intel CPUs with SGX capabilities. LVI combines Spectre-style code gadgets with Meltdown-type illegal data flows to bypass existing defenses and allow injecting data into a victim's transient execution. While mitigations on the GNU side quickly landed, the LLVM compiler mitigations were just merged today.

For those with extra time on their hands due to being at home and social distancing, Canonical released the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS beta today for testing...