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Earlier this month there was the proposal by a Linux kernel engineer for Amazon to flush the L1 data cache on context switches as another safeguard against the ever increasing CPU vulnerabilities...

Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved  Phoronix

MERA, Mocana, and Osaka NDS Join Automotive Grade Linux  AiThority

Lead Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver developer Jason Ekstrand has ported an optimization from the Valve-backed AMD "ACO" compiler over to the NIR code-base for delivering some sizable performance improvements...

This week in KDE land there weren't too many new features introduced but a lot of low-level work to foster future features...

Sparky Linux 2020.03.1 ISO Images Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

Debian Calls on the Linux World to Help Fight the New Coronavirus  Softpedia News

While we were hoping to see the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver introduced in Linux 5.7 for improving the AMD Ryzen Linux laptop experience, that now looks quite unlikely...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Laptop Driver Unlikely To Land For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

In 2019, DigitalOcean and the open source community celebrated the sixth annual Hacktoberfest, an inclusive community event that inspires open source participation and maintenance. It was an exciting year with record-breaking numbers of pull requests, participants, and events around the world.

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For the very common Intel "Gen9" graphics found on pretty much all current pre-Icelake hardware that is available through retail channels, high dynamic range (HDR) display support could soon be enabled under Linux for a subset of devices...

HDR Display Support Coming To Some Intel Gen9 Graphics On Linux  Phoronix

HDR Display Support Coming To Some Intel Gen9 Graphics On Linux  Phoronix

Following Friday's release of Wine 5.5, Wine-Staging 5.5 is now available as the experimental blend of Wine with some 850+ patches atop the upstream code-base with various features in testing...

Global Linux SoftwareMarket Share 2020 by Types, Application, Top-Companies, Regional-Outlook, Business-Opportunities, End-User Demand: Industry Forecast to 2026  Daily Science

SteamOS Isn’t Dead, Just Sidelined; Valve Has Plans To Go Back To Their Linux-Based OS  Happy Gamer

The Linux 5.6 stable kernel could be released as soon as tomorrow if Linus Torvalds is comfortable with its current state to avoid having an eighth weekly release candidate. Whether Linux 5.6 ends up being released tomorrow or next weekend, this kernel is bringing many exciting changes...

The Best Features Of The Linux 5.6 Kernel From WireGuard To Y2038 Compatibility To USB4  Phoronix

In hopefully meaning less regressions moving forward for DXVK with the latest open-source Vulkan drivers, the Mesa continuous integration (CI) infrastructure saw support added for playing DirectX (DXGI) traces with DXVK/Wine...

Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK  Phoronix