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The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2020 - 03:37
As we have been expecting the new Samsung-developed file-system driver for Microsoft's exFAT has successfully landed into the Linux 5.7 kernel to replace the existing exFAT driver added in Linux 5.4 last year after Microsoft published the file-system specifications and gave their blessing to have the support mainlined in the Linux kernel...

Linux 5.7 Adds Support For The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, Mainline PinePhone Support

Phoronix - Sun, 04/05/2020 - 00:18
Some exciting ARM SoCs and devices are supported by the mainline Linux 5.7 kernel...

Dell XPS Ice Lake Taking A Wallop On Ubuntu 20.04

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 20:41
With our early benchmarking of Ubuntu 20.04 in its current nearing the end of development state, we've been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 boosting Intel Xeon Scalable performance, running well with AMD EPYC Rome, and good AMD Ryzen performance, among other tests. Strangely though the one platform where I've found Ubuntu 20.04 hard regressing so far is with the Dell XPS 7390 Ice Lake...

Radeon Open Compute 3.3 Released But Still Without Official Navi Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 19:03
This week marked the release of ROCm 3.3 as the newest version of the Radeon Open Compute stack...

Set up a Tor proxy with Raspberry Pi to control internet traffic

opensource.com - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 18:40

First things first: What are proxy servers, and why use them?


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High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 18:39
Added over a year ago to the mainline Linux kernel was the high resolution mouse wheel scrolling support. While the support landed on kernel-side for to provide "buttery smooth" wheel scrolling, the work has yet to be wrapped up on the user-space side for making this a reality on the Linux desktop...

AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 15:25
It's been another busy week for Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver with the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM...

Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 13:17
With Steam and other online gaming platforms seeing record usage in recent weeks as a result of home isolation around the world as a result of the coronavirus, one of the matters of curiosity has been how this will impact the Linux gaming percentage...

Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions

Phoronix - Sat, 04/04/2020 - 12:10
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent in his "char/misc" updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel several days later than normal...

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