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Linux-friendly modules showcase i.MX8M Mini and Nano  LinuxGizmos.com

AMD "Pollock" is a new chip similar to Dali and looking like it may be used for some Ryzen embedded purposes. AMD Pollock was plumbed into the Linux driver yesterday and was the first time we've heard this codename...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Adding Support For The AMD Pollock  Phoronix

KDE Plasma Welcomes Windows 7 Refugees to the Linux Side  BleepingComputer

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds doesn't recommend using ZFS On Linux at least until Oracle were to re-license the code to make it friendly for mainline inclusion. But even then he doesn't seem turned on by the ZFS features or general performance...

Linus Torvalds Doesn't Recommend Using ZFS On Linux  Phoronix

DXVK 1.5.1 is out today as the latest feature update for this project implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan for faster Wine/Proton Linux gaming performance. This is the first update since the big DXVK 1.5 release that integrated D9VK for D3D9 support...

DXVK 1.5.1 Released With D3D9 Performance Improvements, Many Game Fixes  Phoronix

How to install Tor Browser on Linux Mint  H2S Media

There hasn't been a new Mesa stable release in a number of weeks due to the Christmas and New Year's holidays but that changed today with Mesa 19.3.2 as the first significant point release of Mesa 19.3...

Free download: Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook (worth $44.99)  Neowin

Free download: Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook (worth $44.99)  Neowin

KDE Wants to Help Windows 7 Refugees Upgrade to Linux and the Plasma Desktop  Softpedia News

Tuning Up the Linux Laptop for 2020  ChicagoNow

GNOME has continued its recent trend of offering more point releases to existing stable series for filling the void between the six-month feature releases. Out today is GNOME 3.34.3 with all of the latest fixes, many of which were back-ported from the currently under development GNOME 3.36...

Q4OS Linux Distro Is Now Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10.2 "Buster"  Softpedia News

Intel Rolls Out Linux Media Driver for Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Elkhart Lake  Tom's Hardware

The long in development process of converting GCC's SVN repository to Git for using this modern distributed revision control system for developing the GNU Compiler Collection in the 2020s may finally be complete in the days ahead...

This Incredible $3 Business Card Runs Linux  Forbes

A few days ago I wrote about a big improvement to write performance for EXT4's Direct I/O code path but that is not the only DIO optimization coming for Linux 5.6. Thanks to IBM, another big EXT4 DIO boost can be found for database workloads...