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Dell XPS With Intel Tiger Lake + Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Goes On Sale - Benchmarks Coming

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 23:00
When Intel announced 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" last month it wasn't clear how long it would be until seeing systems actually appear with these new processors. Fortunately, the new Dell XPS systems with Tiger Lake and Intel EVO certification are on sale beginning today with shipping dates reported to be later this month...

Mesa's Vulkan Software Implementation Now Known as Lavapipe

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 19:30
Mesa's Vulkan software implementation built atop LLVMpipe was developed as Vallium (Vulkan + Gallium3D) but has been renamed to Lavapipe within Mesa 20.3...

Systemd Startup For KDE Plasma 5.21 Has Helped Uncover Bugs, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:38
While Plasma 5.20 isn't shipping until later this month, already for Plasma 5.21 down the pipe is a big change and that is the optional support for systemd starting up of the Plasma session. This can lead to faster startup/load times and other improvements while even the process of bringing up the systemd support helped uncover other KDE bugs...

Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:22
From new hardware releases to figuring out that Linux 5.9 performance regression to interesting open-source software advancements, September was an interesting trek with 259 original articles on the site and another 15 featured articles / multi-page Linux hardware reviews...

Intel Releases OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 18:01
Following yesterday's release of the finalized OpenCL 3.0 specification, open-source Intel developers have released OpenCL Intercept Layer 3.0...

How I Switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint

Tecmint - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 15:04

This article is all about my journey on switching from Windows 10 to Linux Mint 20, how I got easily adapted to the Linux environment, and some resources that helped me to set up

The post How I Switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Level up your shell history with Loki and fzf

opensource.com - Thu, 10/01/2020 - 15:01

Loki is an Apache 2.0-licensed open source log-aggregation framework designed by Grafana Labs and built with tremendous support from a growing community. It is also the project I work on every day. In this article, rather than just talking about how Loki works, I will provide a hands-on introduction to solving real problems with it.


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