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F2FS Data Compression Using LZO/LZ4 + Selective File Extension Handling To Land In 2020  Phoronix

F2FS Data Compression Using LZO/LZ4 + Selective File Extension Handling To Land In 2020  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Segment Analysis and Forecast To 2026 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Testifyandrecap

While there still is at least a full month to go before seeing the Linux 5.5 stable release and that marking the opening of the Linux 5.6 merge window, already a fair amount of HID subsystem work is queuing in its "-next" tree ahead of the first full kernel cycle of 2020...

More Logitech Device Additions + Refinements Coming With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

More Logitech Device Additions + Refinements Coming With Linux 5.6  Phoronix

"The world doesn't need another object-oriented language." At the time Java got its start, it was easy to dismiss the language as unnecessary, just like industry analyst John R. Rymer did when he was first introduced to Java while working at Giga Information Group, at a time when SmallTalk and C++ were "really big deals." And yet, the Java language—and the enterprise platform built on it—would go on to become important parts of the enterprise technology stack for many years.

The Update Framework graduates from the Linux Foundation's Cloud Native Computing Foundation  Help Net Security

Linux 5.5-rc3 Released With A Lot Of Fixes Ahead Of The Holidays  Phoronix

Linux 5.5-rc3 is out following a week of seeing many bug/regression fixes landing as we approach the half-way point of the Linux 5.5 kernel...

The Performance Advancements Of The Radeon Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Over 2019  Phoronix

For the latest of our year-end tests is a look at how the RadeonSI OpenGL driver and RADV Vulkan driver performance has evolved since the end of 2018 for Linux gaming.

AMD Radeon TrueAudio-Next Finally Going Cross-Platform With Linux Support  Phoronix

AMD Radeon TrueAudio-Next Finally Going Cross-Platform With Linux Support  Phoronix

TrueAudio-Next is AMD's solution for advanced GPU-accelerated audio effects and other capabilities by leveraging OpenCL compute rather than any dedicated DSP audio hardware. While developed as open-source the past three years, there hasn't been official Linux support but that seems to finally be changing...

The LLVM Clang compiler continues becoming increasing competitive against the long-standing GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on Linux x86_64 systems... With tests done on Intel Ice Lake using the Core i7-1065G7, the Clang 9.0 stable performance is delivering over 95% the performance of GCC 9 stable based on over 40 C/C++ benchmarks...

USB4 Support Being Introduced With Linux 5.6 Kernel  Phoronix

While the Linux 5.5 kernel with its many new features isn't even launching as stable until around the end of January, the number of reasons to get excited over the next kernel (5.6) continues to grow. Linux 5.6 will be headlining with WireGuard support and other features while the newest big-ticket item is USB4 support...

On Friday Intel released SVT-AV1 0.8 with more AVX2/AVX-512 optimizations for this one of the fastest CPU-based AV1 open-source video encoders (and growing decoding support too). Here are some benchmarks of SVT-AV1 0.8 compared to the previous v0.7 release on various Intel and AMD systems...

KDE developers haven't let up ahead of the holidays in their relentless work for improving the KDE desktop and contained applications...