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Microsoft Edge rolling out for Linux users in beta in October: Report  Times Now

Earlier this year Apple engineers announced Swift System as their new library for low-level system interfaces. They have now open-sourced Swift System while also introducing Linux support...

What is FOSS? What is Open Source? Are They the Same Thing?  It's FOSS

AMD Van Gogh APUs Spotted In Linux Patch, Features DDR5, Navi 2 iGPU  Tom's Hardware UK

How to Access S3 Buckets from Windows or Linux  ITPro Today

As a nice Friday afternoon patch series there is the 275k lines of code for wiring up the next-generation AMD Van Gogh APU support under Linux...

AMD Sends Out Linux Kernel Support For Van Gogh APUs - Confirms DDR5 Memory, VCN3  Phoronix

Revisit childhood games with DOSBox on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Wine 5.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly feature development release...

NVIDIA GeForce vs. AMD Radeon Vulkan Neural Network Performance With NCNN  Phoronix

With having added Tencent's NCNN tests to the Phoronix Test Suite with Vulkan acceleration, here is a look at the real-world impact by using RealSR-NCNN for scaling up with RealSR. Various NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards were tested for this initial NCNN / RealSR-NCNN Vulkan comparison.

Amazon Luna will be powered by Windows, not Linux, making it easier for developers to port games  Android Central

Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine team have been working on a big update to their just-in-time compiler code. This big update called "Warp" is now enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly builds for offering big speed-ups...

Queued today into the block subsystem's "-next" area ahead of the Linux 5.10 cycle kicking off next month are some MD RAID enhancements...

Linux 5.10 To See RAID10 DISCARD Improvement - From 259 Seconds To Less Than 1 Second  Phoronix

Bug that broke Linux in Windows 10 update is finally fixed  TechRadar New Zealand

Global Linux Operating System Market Size, Status and Forecast 2020-2025  The PRNews Portal

Swift System is Now Open Supply and Helps Linux  Editorials 360

FinSpy Spyware for Mac and Linux OS Targets Egyptian Organisations  The Hacker News

Ahead of next month's Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 release and the new OpenBenchmarking.org, the milestone was met this week of having 600 different test profiles (benchmarks) available for automated execution via our open-source, cross-platform benchmarking software...