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A four year old Intel Linux display driver bug around corruption issues when trying to drive tiled displays (namely 5K+ setups with dual DisplayPort connections) on Intel "Gen9" graphics hardware for Skylake up until Icelake could soon be marked as resolved...

Intel Linux Driver Getting Skylake/Gen9 Port Sync To Fix 5K Tiled Display Issues  Phoronix

Intel Linux Driver Getting Skylake/Gen9 Port Sync To Fix 5K Tiled Display Issues  Phoronix

Ice Lake GPU underperforming? Put it in powersave mode. Wait, what?  Ars Technica

Intel Compute Runtime 20.10.16087 was released today as their latest weekly-ish tagged update to this open-source compute runtime for empowering their graphics hardware on Linux with OpenCL and oneAPI support...

Apollo Lake Pico-ITX board offers Yocto Linux BSP  LinuxGizmos.com

Apollo Lake Pico-ITX board offers Yocto Linux BSP  LinuxGizmos.com

Marc-Etienne Léveillé on Linux malware  CyberScoop

Intel’s Clear Linux to gain better support for third-party, proprietary software (like Chrome and Steam)  Liliputing

Best Linux laptops of 2020: the top open-source notebooks  Techradar

Best Linux laptops of 2020: the top open-source notebooks  TechRadar

Best Linux laptops of 2020: the top open-source notebooks  TechRadar

Managing disk and file system partitions in an Azure Linux VM  TechGenix

The AND a Beta, DRM, Offline mode, Mods, and Linux  Play Crazy Game

Intel Developer's Patch To Let SECCOMP Processes Like Web Browsers Opt Out Of Spectre V4  Phoronix

Intel Developer's Patch To Let SECCOMP Processes Like Web Browsers Opt Out Of Spectre V4  Phoronix

Currently the Linux kernel SECCOMP secure computing mode force-enables Spectre protections, which comes with obvious performance implications. When force-enabled, however, processes can't opt-out of the protection if they are not at risk to the likes of Spectre V4 "Speculative Store Bypass" issues. But a simple change being proposed would let such processes opt out if desired...

AMD sprucing up its Linux driver  Fudzilla

AMD sprucing up its Linux driver  Fudzilla

New Linux Patch Will Significantly Boost Ice Lake GPU Performance  ExtremeTech