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It should come as little surprise in general but making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) for multimedia encode/decode is a big deal for performance. While one could hope that by 2020 most open-source encoders were already extensively utilizing AVX(2), that isn't yet the case with the latest being AOM-AV1 picking up another optimization...

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Research (2015-2026): In-depth Assessment of the Growth and other Aspects  Internet Shots

Tiny $10 module runs Linux on Cortex-A7 SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny $10 module runs Linux on Cortex-A7 SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Meet YARH.IO MKI: A Hackable Raspberry Pi And Linux Powered Device  Fossbytes

Penetration Testing Software Market Size and Forecast (2020-2027) | By Top Leading Players – Acunetix, Netsparker, Core Impact, Metasploit, Wireshark, w3af, Kali Linux  The Daily Chronicle

For open source, Linux is still the standard  ARNnet

Last Night’s Patch Tuesday Update Breaks WSL 2 for Some Windows 10 v2004 Users  Wccftech

Recently carrying out some benchmarks of all major kernel releases from Linux 5.0 through Linux 5.9 ended up yielding some surprising performance changes with the in-development 5.9 kernel. Here's details on this historical look at the kernel performance and what's going on with the Linux 5.9 kernel slowdowns.

It's been widely expected AMD will launch their next-generation RDNA 2 graphics cards and Zen 3 processors in Q4 as they previously reported as well as leaks pointing to October reveal dates. Today the company is sharing actual dates for said announcements...

Linux 5.0 To Linux 5.9 Kernel Benchmarking Was A Bumpy Ride With New Regressions  Phoronix

Windows 10 2004 KB4571756 breaks Windows Subsystem for Linux 2  BleepingComputer

Hackable Raspberry Pi handheld computer  Boing Boing

Networking SBC boasts 2.5GbE, GbE with PoE and optional 5G and WiFi 6  LinuxGizmos.com

Bursting Strength Tester Market Tends to Show Steady Growth Post Pandemic | ABB, SDL Atlas, Linux, James Heal, TESTEX  Owned

Systemd developers are still hoping to introduce systemd-oomd as part of the next release...

Systemd 247 Still Aiming To Integrate systemd-oomd  Phoronix

Lortu launch Lache: An SDK to transfer files three times faster  PR Web

Along with Intel's SVT-AV1 0.8.5, another open-source AV1 video encoder seeing a new release this week is the Rust-written rav1e...

How to start WSL services automatically on Ubuntu with Windows 10 startup - Linux Shout  H2S Media