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Gammy is an adaptive brightness application for Windows and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

Mesa 20.1-dev RADV vs. RADV+ACO vs. AMDVLK vs. AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan Radeon Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Here is an up-to-date look at how the very latest Mesa 20.1 Git performance is for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver both out-of-the-box and when enabling the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM. Plus there are benchmarks of the latest AMDVLK open-source AMD Vulkan driver and also when using AMDGPU-PRO's Vulkan packages that still rely upon AMD's proprietary shader compiler.

Raspberry Pi sized SBC is smallest Ryzen R1000-based model yet  LinuxGizmos.com

While the Debian 11 "Bullseye" code freeze isn't for another year, the second alpha release of the Debian Installer to ultimately provide the installation process is now available...

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support  Phoronix

Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 Released With Linux 5.4 + New Device Support  Phoronix

As a move ultimately for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well, Red Hat developers working on Fedora are planning to transition the RPM database (RPMDB) away from the long-standing Berkeley DB to using SQLite...

Fedora Looking To Transition The RPM Database From Berkeley DB To SQLite  Phoronix

Linux 5.7 Positioned To Retire ARM 32-bit KVM Virtualization Support  Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 5.7 kernel is preparing to bid farewell to KVM virtualization support on 32-bit ARM architectures...

Microsoft frees Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 from the shackles of, er, Windows?  The Register

AMD today announced the Ryzen 9 4900H as their new top-end Zen 2 mobile processor for notebooks...

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H Mobile Processor Announced For Top-End Laptop Performance  Phoronix

Telstra Ventures leads $65m investment in 'new Linux'  The Australian Financial Review

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 available for download  Neowin

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 available for download  Neowin

While many would argue it's past due for the Linux kernel's floppy disk code to be gutted from the mainline code-base, instead it's seeing improvements in 2020 ahead of the Linux 5.7 kernel... The same kernel where Intel stabilized Tiger Lake graphics, AMD preparing Zen 3 support, a new exFAT driver, and a multitude of other modern improvements is also now seeing floppy work...

Linux Kernel's Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020  Phoronix

Intel has begun piping the Linux support for Keem Bay...