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Rakuten Joins Linux Patent Consortium 'Open Invention Network'  The Fast Mode

Lutris 0.5.5 is out today as the newest version of this Linux game manager to assist in installing both native and emulated games on Linux. Lutris continues to expand the scope of its "runners" for improving the Linux gaming experience...

Lutris 0.5.5 Linux Game Manager Adds Humble Bundle Support, Initial VKD3D Support  Phoronix

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released With WireGuard, USB4, New AMD + Intel Hardware Support  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of the Linux 5.6 stable kernel a few minutes ago. This also means the Linux 5.7 merge window is now open for business...

Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 20.04 LTS Performance Preview With Intel Xeon Scalable  Phoronix

There is less than one month to go until the official release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" but we've already begun experimenting with it for weeks across a variety of platforms. For the most part we have found Ubuntu 20.04 slated to offer some nice performance improvements, especially if upgrading from the existing LTS series, Ubuntu 18.04. In this article are our initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Xeon Scalable from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to the current 20.04 near-final state.

Earlier this month there was the proposal by a Linux kernel engineer for Amazon to flush the L1 data cache on context switches as another safeguard against the ever increasing CPU vulnerabilities...

Amazon Engineer's Patch For Flushing L1 Cache On Context Switching Revved  Phoronix

MERA, Mocana, and Osaka NDS Join Automotive Grade Linux  AiThority

Lead Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver developer Jason Ekstrand has ported an optimization from the Valve-backed AMD "ACO" compiler over to the NIR code-base for delivering some sizable performance improvements...

This week in KDE land there weren't too many new features introduced but a lot of low-level work to foster future features...

Sparky Linux 2020.03.1 ISO Images Now Available for Download  Softpedia News

Debian Calls on the Linux World to Help Fight the New Coronavirus  Softpedia News

While we were hoping to see the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub driver introduced in Linux 5.7 for improving the AMD Ryzen Linux laptop experience, that now looks quite unlikely...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Laptop Driver Unlikely To Land For Linux 5.7  Phoronix

In 2019, DigitalOcean and the open source community celebrated the sixth annual Hacktoberfest, an inclusive community event that inspires open source participation and maintenance. It was an exciting year with record-breaking numbers of pull requests, participants, and events around the world.

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For the very common Intel "Gen9" graphics found on pretty much all current pre-Icelake hardware that is available through retail channels, high dynamic range (HDR) display support could soon be enabled under Linux for a subset of devices...

HDR Display Support Coming To Some Intel Gen9 Graphics On Linux  Phoronix

HDR Display Support Coming To Some Intel Gen9 Graphics On Linux  Phoronix