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Our recent benchmarks have shown WSL/WSL2 performance on the latest Windows 10 builds to generally be quite good compared to running bare metal Linux. But past the May 2020 Update and on the latest Insider Preview builds is the initial support for GPU acceleration in conjunction with updated Windows graphics drivers. The initial emphasis is on GPU compute with DirectML and for NVIDIA hardware CUDA support as well. Here are a couple CUDA benchmarks that ran gracefully under WSL2 albeit the performance leaves a lot to be desired...

Google Posts Patches So The Linux Kernel Can Be LTO-Optimized By Clang  Phoronix

This leading open-source physically based renderer is about to get even better with the upcoming LuxCore 2.4 release...

Linux Operating System Market Share, Trends, Global Industry Statistics, Analysis, Growth and COVID-19 Pandemic Presenting Future Opportunities 2026  3rd Watch News

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, Growth , Trends and increasing demand with Leading key players | Forecasts 2020-2025  3rd Watch News

1. Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is here  BetaNews
2. Linux Mint 20 Final has been released  Ghacks Technology News
3. Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” Officially Released  Softpedia News
4. Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” An All 64-Bit Linux OS Based On Ubuntu 20.04 Stable Distro ISO Released For Download  Appuals
5. Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released (New features for file sharing, NVIDIA graphics, and high-res displays)  Liliputing
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Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is here  BetaNews

Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released (New features for file sharing, NVIDIA graphics, and high-res displays)  Liliputing

Intel updated their instruction set extensions programming reference guide that along with other additions now details the Intel AMX (Advanced Matrix Extensions) coming with Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs next year...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" is shipping this weekend as the newest major release to this user-friendly desktop Linux distribution derived from the Ubuntu LTS package set...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Phoronix

Server Market 2020: Global Industry Analysis By Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast To 2026  3rd Watch News

Research On Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market (Impact Of COVID-19) Is Big Booming With Top Key Players – Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice)  Jewish Life News

Intel Begins Volleying Open-Source Patches Around Intel AMX  Phoronix

How will Apple's ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Following the proposal at the end of last year over GCC 11 aiming to default to C++17 for its C++ front-end, that change is now in place for GNU Compiler Collection 11...

Freedreno Gallium3D is the latest Mesa driver implementing an on-disk shader cache...

System76's Oryx Pro is a portable Linux powerhouse  TechSpot

KDE developers remain as busy as ever, especially when it comes to fixing bugs...

Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Phoronix