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openSUSE Tumbleweed vs. Leap 15.2 vs. Jump Alpha Benchmarks  Phoronix

Following the recent alpha debut of the openSUSE Jump distribution for testing that is working to synchronize SUSE Linux Enterprise with openSUSE Leap, there was an inquiry made about the performance of it. So for addressing that premium member's question, here are some benchmarks carried out recently of the latest openSUSE Leap 15.2 against the openSUSE Jump in its early state against the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Lilbits: Amazon Sidewalk, Microsoft buys Bethesda, and game streaming on Linux  Liliputing

With no new indications of Solaris 12 or Solaris 11.next and given the past layoffs and previous announcements from Oracle, today's statement that Solaris 11.4 will remain as their continuous delivery model with monthly SRU releases come as little surprise...

Linux Fu: Simple SSH File Sharing  Hackaday

Mozilla's VPN service works across mobile and desktop platforms  TechRepublic

As part of the new OpenBenchmarking.org being developed as part of Phoronix Test Suite 10.0 due out next quarter, some new features were deployed live on OpenBenchmarking.org this weekend...

Compact in-vehicle gateway offers flexible power switching  LinuxGizmos.com

The Vulkan Portability Extension (VK_KHR_portability_subset) has been released as part of the effort by The Khronos Group in getting Vulkan running on as many platforms as possible, including the likes of Apple macOS/iOS...

As first outlined earlier this year, Intel has been working on the Linux support for Platform Monitoring Technology as a new hardware telemetry feature first introduced with new Tigerlake hardware. It's looking like the initial Intel PMT support will come with Linux 5.10 while further work is being prepared that builds off its foundation...

Intel Platform Monitoring Telemetry Appears Destined For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

Intel Platform Monitoring Telemetry Appears Destined For Linux 5.10  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Size to Witness Huge Growth by 2027 | By Top Leading Vendors – Twitter, Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  The Daily Chronicle

One of the less talked about open-source graphics drivers talked about is Etnaviv as the reverse-engineered, community-based driver providing OpenGL/GLES support for Vivante graphics IP. While it's still working towards OpenGL ES 3.0 compliance, its performance is currently in some cases competitive -- and even outperforming -- the Vivante proprietary driver...

Microsoft Says Important Windows 10 Fix for Linux Users Is Coming  Softpedia News

Not only did Unity Software experience a successful IPO last week but they also rolled out the Unity 2020.2 engine into public beta and with that comes some "major speed-ups" for performance...

Unity 2020.2 Bringing Some Hefty Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Well known KDE developer David Edmundson has been experimenting with a Vulkan-powered KDE Plasma Shell and did manage to get things working with Qt 5.15 using a few modifications...

There is some new feature code in the IBM POWER CPU architecture's "-next" Git tree for the Linux 5.10 kernel...

POWER Coregroup Support Coming With Linux 5.10  Phoronix