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Back in May we reported on work being done for a readfile() system call to read small files more efficiently. Greg Kroah-Hartman has now volleyed those patches for review on the kernel mailing list for this improvement for reading small to medium file sizes on Linux systems...

New readfile() System Call Under Review For Reading Small~Medium Files Faster  Phoronix

Atari VCS set for Fall 2020 release  TweakTown

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This is what it would cost you to have the same PC as the creator of Linux | Technology  Explica

Wine-Staging at one point was traditionally 800+ testing/experimental patches on top of the upstream Wine code-base, even as recently as March when it was 850+ patches. Thanks to more work being upstreamed, last month it hit just over 700 patches and now with today's release of Wine-Staging 5.12 it represents a delta of just 665 patches...

Chromebooks could soon get Steam support — and MacBooks should be worried  Tom's Guide

Purism Presents Privacy-Focused “Librem 14” Linux Laptop  TechNadu

KDE developers remain very active with improving this open-source desktop environment even amid the coronavirus pandemic...

The Khronos Group is celebrating the US Independence Day with the release of a new Vulkan spec...

Back in early 2017 "Mircade" was introduced as an arcade-style game launcher on Ubuntu powered by Mir. We hadn't heard much of Mircade since 2017 but the effort is still alive for this Mir-based launcher that can trigger various apps to run under Wayland/Mir...

Canonical Will No Longer Support Ubuntu 19.10 After July 17, 2020  Fossbytes

Interview – NXP Linux BSP and Timesys Vigiles Maintenance Service & Security Updates  CNX Software

While recent Firefox releases have seen VA-API video acceleration working when running natively under Wayland, the Firefox 80 release later this summer will bring VA-API support by default to those running on a conventional X.Org Server...

Databricks Contributes MLflow Machine Learning Platform to The Linux Foundation  InfoQ.com

Whither Fuchsia? Will the new OS be Google's way to avoid sharing Linux code?  iTWire

Google could bring Steam gaming to Chromebooks (via Linux)  Liliputing

Wine 5.12 is out for the US Holiday weekend testing...

This 15.6 inch Linux laptop features an AMD Ryzen processor  Liliputing

There may be some brief, intermittent downtime this weekend as all of the Phoronix Media web server infrastructure is being upgraded. This also marks the first time in Phoronix's 16+ year history that the servers are AMD powered, thanks to the incredible success of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" series...