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Intel's open-source developers have begun publishing their patches enabling their "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver to support Vulkan ray-tracing! This is in preparation for next year's Xe HPG graphics card that will feature hardware-accelerated ray-tracing...

There was talk earlier this year of mainlining the real-time Linux kernel patches after similar discussions last year didn't result in it happening. Merging the RT code didn't happen for the recent Linux 5.10 merge window but at least the out-of-tree patches were quickly re-based for Linux 5.9 stable and 5.10-rc1...

Real-Time Patches Updated For Linux 5.9/5.10 With The Code Not Yet Mainlined  Phoronix

How to Create EC2 Duplicate Instance with Ansible  Linux Journal

Partitions cannot be recovered? Testdisk. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Lilbits: AMD gets serious about gaming, Microsoft is giving Windows 10 a makeover  Liliputing

Customizable Apollo Lake mini-PC runs Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Customizable Apollo Lake mini-PC runs Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Use Docker and Alpine Linux to build lightweight containers  TechTarget

Linux Mint 20 - Cinnamon on Acer Aspire 5 issue + question - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Version 2.0 of Pyston is now available, the Python implementation originally started by Dropbox that builds on LLVM JIT for offering faster Python performance...

Linux Software Market Share by Top Manufacturers 2026: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  TechnoWeekly

Linux Fu: Troubleshooting Incron  Hackaday

Linux Support Expectations For The AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series  Phoronix

Lisa Su is about to begin the presentation unveiling the much anticipated Radeon RX 6000 "Big Navi" (RDNA 2) graphics cards. This article will be updated live as the event progresses but first up let's recap the current Linux open-source driver state for these forthcoming graphics cards.

What the growing OEM support means for the future of Linux  TechRepublic

Adam Jackson who on Red Hat's Graphics Team served as the X.Org Server release manager for many years and being heavily involved in the xorg-server development and related components as shared his views on whether the X.Org Server is "abandonware."..

According to Linux, open source skillsets are on the rise  TechHQ

Following last week's Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" release, Ubuntu 21.04 development is now getting underway as the Hirsute Hippo...

Fedora 33: Honing Linux's cutting edge  ZDNet