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Several months ago we learned of the Xfce 4.16 plans to drop GTK2 support and explore client-side decoration goals among other changes for this lightweight desktop environment release expected in late 2020...

Sent out shortly before the holidays was an Intel Uncore Frequency driver for Linux servers. That driver has now been revised with the latest fixes and is looking like it could soon land in mainline for helping latency-sensitive servers...

Intel Uncore Frequency Driver On Linux Is Closer To Mainline With Latest Patches  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, warned developers not to use an Oracle-owned file system because of the company's 'litigious nature'  Business Insider

Back in December was the proposal to finally enable FSTRIM by default for Fedora 32 in benefiting solid-state storage. Today the formal approval was given by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee to go ahead with this long overdue change...

Git 2.25 is out today with over 500 commits making up this latest feature release...

How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux  TechRepublic

Looking At The Linux Performance Two Years After Spectre / Meltdown Mitigations  Phoronix

1. Why Should You Use Linux?  Tech Times
2. How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux  TechRepublic
3. Windows 7 is dead — switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.8 NOW!  BetaNews
4. Linux Lite 4.8 Arrives as a Windows 7 Alternative, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News
5. Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday — Krebs on Security  Krebs on Security
6. View full coverage on Google News

1. Why Should You Use Linux?  Tech Times
2. Windows 7 is dead — switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.8 NOW!  BetaNews
3. How to install Microsoft Teams on Linux  TechRepublic
4. Linux Lite 4.8 Arrives as a Windows 7 Alternative, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS  Softpedia News
5. View full coverage on Google News

Why Should You Use Linux?  Tech Times

Last week marked the two year anniversary since the formal public disclosure of the Spectre and Meltdown disclosures. To commemorate that anniversary, I was running some fresh benchmarks of various Intel desktop and server processors with the in-development Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to look at the performance impact today with the default CPU vulnerability mitigations and then again with the mitigations disabled at run-time.

Linux gaming made easy: The fastest way to get up and running  ZDNet

The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.4-Vestby is now available for evaluation...

Windows 7 is dead — switch to the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 4.8 NOW!  BetaNews

Following the long-awaited GCC transition from SVN to Git that took place this weekend, the GNU Compiler Collection is kicking off this week by transitioning to "stage four" development on the GCC 10 compiler...

The NGG (Next-Gen Geometry) support with Navi continues to be refined by the open-source AMD Linux graphics drivers with the RADV Vulkan driver seeing a fresh batch of fixes/clean-ups, inspired in part by the NGG code from the RadeonSI and AMDVLK drivers...

RADV's Next-Gen Geometry Code Continues To Be Revised For Navi GPUs  Phoronix

One of the set of patches for Intel's Linux kernel graphics driver that have been floating around for more than one year is about exposing per-client (process) statistics in how each application is making use of the GPU's render/blitter/video hardware and various insightful statistics related to that. The patches aren't queued for mainline yet but at least a new revision of the work was published...

Intel Revs Linux Patches For Per-Client Engine Busyness - Allowing For Great GPU Insight  Phoronix