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With the upcoming Firefox 75 there is VA-API GPU-based video acceleration working on Wayland. While this built off FFmpeg, the initial code was limited to supporting H.264 while for Firefox 76 that is being extended...

IO_uring Is Maturing Well On Linux For Faster & More Flexible I/O - Benchmarks On Linux 5.6  Phoronix

WireGuide: All about the WireGuard VPN protocol  Privacy News Online

Mesa 20.0.2 is out this evening as the latest stable bug-fix update for the Mesa Q1'2020 driver series...

Systems making use of NVMe solid-state storage may see slightly faster boot times with the Linux 5.7 kernel this summer...

NVMe SSD Systems May Boot Slightly Quicker With Linux 5.7  Phoronix

NVMe SSD Systems May Boot Slightly Quicker With Linux 5.7  Phoronix

Manually rotating log files on Linux  Network World

With the in-development LibreOffice 7.0 one of the headlining changes is making use of Google's Skia library and with that is Vulkan rendering support. That initial implementation was using Skia to draw the UI while now it's also picking up text rendering responsibilities...

I can not boot to usb with linux iso, but windows iso works fine, Acer Swift 3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux 5.7 continues the trend of the community taking up new drivers being created to support different peripherals under Linux that amount to dealing with quirky/buggy behavior of the hardware...

Linux 5.7 Getting Driver To Deal With More Buggy & Funky Looking Mice  Phoronix

Purism Librem Mini is a tiny Linux desktop  BetaNews

EMBEDDED LINUX ENGINEER IN KIRKLAND, WA AT TABLESAFE | Careers  MarketScale

Linux PC Company System76 Is Pulling An Apple And Designing Its Own Keyboard  Forbes

Particularly for those on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or derivative distributions based on the current long-term support base, moving to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS due out next month will yield some nice improvements particularly for those on newer platforms like the AMD Ryzen 3000 series. Here are some benchmarks at how the Ryzen 9 3900X performance is looking between Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 19.10, and the current Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS A Nice Upgrade For AMD Ryzen Owners From 18.04 LTS  Phoronix

Microsoft's Windows Terminal now has mouse support for Windows Subsystem for Linux  ZDNet

Red Hat Linux Azure VMs: Using LVM to improve disk performance  TechGenix

How to Work with Snap Packages on Linux  How-To Geek