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NVIDIA 435.27.06 Vulkan Linux Driver Has Useful Display Improvements  Phoronix

If you’re an avid Linux user you probably know by now that it is no Operating System for the weak at heart (well sometimes). The chances of you getting crushed when trying to install...

Mesa 19.2.4 was released on Wednesday as an "emergency release" after a bug was discovered that made last week's Mesa 19.2.3 version buggy for all OpenGL drivers...

How to Download and Install KaOS linux on VirtualBox  H2S Media

AWS, Salesforce join forces with Linux Foundation on Cloud Information Model  TechCrunch

CodeWeavers is looking to hire another developer to work on Wine's graphics stack and in particular the WineD3D code while having an emphasis that it's part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) efforts...

With yesterday's overview and benchmarks of Intel's Jump Conditional Code Erratum one of the areas where the performance impact of the updated CPU microcode exceeding Intel's 0~4% guidance was on the web browser performance. Now with more time having passed, here are more web browser benchmarks on both Chrome and Firefox while comparing the new CPU microcode release for the JCC Erratum compared to the previous release. Simply moving to this new CPU microcode does represent a significant hit to the web browser performance.

We could still have a 'Year of the Linux desktop'  ZDNet

As of this morning LibreOffice 6.4 was branched from master and the beta release tagged with those LO 6.4 Beta binaries expected out shortly...

Automation controller switches to Real-time Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

AMD on Tuesday released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q4 for Linux package as their newest quarterly driver release intended for their professional graphics card offerings...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q4 for Linux Released  Phoronix

The Khronos Group has been expanding into a lot of new areas in recent times from OpenXR to 3D Commerce to NNEF and now forming an exploratory group for creating an analytic rendering API...

GNS3 is an open source graphical network simulator for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Linux vs. Zombieland v2: The security battle continues  ZDNet

Linux Operating System Market Future Outlook | openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Galus Australis

Linux Operating System Market Future Outlook | openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Galus Australis

This Linux-Based Smartphone Will Keep You Completely Anonymous  Fossbytes

The second development release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.2-Hurdal is now available for open-source, cross-platform and fully-automated benchmarking...

Another Intel change being sent off for Linux 5.4 and to be back-ported to current stable series is disabling of HPET for Coffee Lake systems...