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Dell is Adding Webcam and Microphone Kill Switches in Linux Kernel  It's FOSS

Dell Linux Laptops To Get Hardware-Level Privacy Protection For Camera And Mic  Fossbytes

Following the news that we were first to report last month on Intel starting open-source public patches for Vulkan ray-tracing in preparation for their forthcoming Xe HPG graphics card, the initial prep work for that Vulkan ray-tracing support has now been merged in time for Mesa 20.3...

Purism Launches 2nd Gen Librem Mini Linux PC with a 10th Gen Intel Core CPU  LXer

Linux Software Market 2020 Demand And Growth Analysis by Top Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Samsung, DELL, Google  TechnoWeekly

While the Sony PlayStation 5 isn't beginning to ship until next week there is now support within the widely-used SDL2 library for its controllers...

Lilbits: Xiaomi’s telescopic smartphone camera, Purism’s Linux phone that’s also a PC  Liliputing

SMARC module runs Linux on RK3399K  LinuxGizmos.com

SMARC module runs Linux on RK3399K  LinuxGizmos.com

Hot Swappable Filesystems, as Smooth as Btrfs  Linux Journal

Not only are AMD Ryzen 5000 series completely dominating in performance but they could soon see open-source Coreboot support as an alternative to the proprietary firmware/BIOS. Project X is an interesting effort around blob-free Coreboot/Oreboot support on AMD Zen...

How to install the Nextcloud Desktop Client v3 on Linux  TechRepublic

Dell enables Linux hardware privacy controls  ZDNet

Linux Fu: Monitor Disks  Hackaday

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X + Ryzen 9 5950X Dominate On Linux Review  Phoronix

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X are hands-down incredible winners. While processor company marketing claims are sometimes dubious and not necessarily relevant to Linux users and their open-source workloads/software, after testing the Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X the past several weeks the performance has been incredibly compelling with significant single and multi-threaded performance uplift over Zen 2 and easily thrashing Intel's current desktop offerings with over 200 benchmarks conducted for launch-day.

After just publishing the results of 200+ Linux benchmarks under many diverse workloads for the Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X we see the 16~20% performance lift is very real and very broad from obscure open-source niche software through high profile programs... What about the Linux gaming performance? This article offers a first look at the Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux gaming performance compared to Zen 2 and the Core i9 10900K while being the first of several Linux gaming performance articles coming out this month.

Linux Operating System Market Size 2020, by Leading Players- IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Royal Sutton News