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FreeBSD developers have been working on transitioning to using OpenZFS as their ZFS file-system upstream code rather than the dormant Illumos base. That initial FreeBSD support has been mainlined this week into the OpenZFS repository, now providing a common code-base between for the open-source ZFS file-system code between Illumos, FreeBSD, Linux, and work-in-progress macOS...

OpenZFS Merges The New FreeBSD Support  Phoronix

You can now access Apple Music on Windows 10, Linux and Chrome  Hindustan Times

1. May 2020 Windows 10 Update: Linux, Ray Tracing, Search Upgrades  ExtremeTech
2. May well 2020 Home windows 10 Update: Linux, Ray Tracing, Lookup Updates  Mash Viral
3. Mayday! Mayday! The next Windows 10 update is finally on approach to a PC near you  The Register
4. the day came when Linux is the most important feature of a new version of Windows  Explica
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May 2020 Windows 10 Update: Linux, Ray Tracing, Search Upgrades  ExtremeTech

My First 24 Hours With The Deepin 20 Beta Were Delightful But Disappointing  Forbes

Developer Dual Boots iOS 13.3 and Linux on iPhone 8 But There’s a Catch  Wccftech

AMD has finally released their first "Radeon Software for Linux" packaged driver release to succeed their Radeon Software for Linux 19.50 driver series that saw its last update in December. Radeon Software for Linux 20.10 is available today as their first packaged Linux driver update of 2020 for AND Radeon Linux owners as the packaged solution intended for easy installation of their All-Open and "PRO" driver components...

Radeon Software For Linux 20.10 Driver Released  Phoronix

Following the release of Chrome 81 earlier this month, Chrome 83 is now in beta with Google having skipped Chrome 82 due to delays / internal issues...

Initial Benchmarks Of Schedutil Performance On Linux 5.7 Show Room Still For Improvement  Phoronix

These three Linux features for Chromebooks are getting pushed back to Chrome OS 84 or later  About Chromebooks

With Linux 5.7 the kernel is preparing to use the Schedutil governor more often on Intel systems. That change affects the CPUfreq default as well as the Intel P-State driver when in passive mode. While Schedutil holds a lot of hope, at least on Linux 5.7 with the testing I've done thus far the results show the raw performance slipping while testing on more platforms is forthcoming.

Plex releases media server app Dash, and Plexamp player for Windows, mobile, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

Intel Sends Initial Linux 5.8 Graphics Driver Updates - Adds Ability For Tapping Full EU Perf, More Tiger Lake Bits  Phoronix

Intel Sends Initial Linux 5.8 Graphics Driver Updates - Adds Ability For Tapping Full EU Perf, More Tiger Lake Bits  Phoronix

Less than one week since the release of Linux 5.7-rc1, Intel's large open-source graphics team has already submitted their first pull request to DRM-Next of changes for Linux 5.8...

Besides the long-running FSGSBASE patch series that has the ability to help the performance for CPUs going back years, another engineer on Intel's open-source team has been working on a separate but enticing patch in the name of performance...

An Intel Engineer Has Another Optimization For Possible Performance Degradation On Linux  Phoronix

This Connecticut professor refurbishes old computers and gives them to students in need. Coronavirus has made  Hartford Courant