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Hitting Mesa 20.0-devel a short time ago were a set of patches to the Radeon Gallium3D video code for fixing 10-bit HEVC video decode support...

Your choice of Linux distribution on a budget PC can mean the difference of ~14% performance overall. Here are benchmarks of Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, EndeavourOS, Manjaro Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation, and Clear Linux on a $50 processor as we roll into 2020 with the newest Linux distribution releases.

Microphone support finally comes to Linux on Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Embedded Linux consulting firm Bootlin has been working on improving the security of OpenWrt, the Linux distribution popular for running on routers / networking equipment and other embedded Linux networking use-cases...

Bootlin Working To Boost OpenWrt Security With SELinux + DM-Verity  Phoronix

For those of you running EXT4 with Direct I/O on the likes of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory or PMEM simulated via a virtual machine, better write performance is coming when overwriting already allocated blocks...

EXT4 In Linux 5.6 To See Big Write Performance Boost For Direct I/O  Phoronix

How to disable automatic opening of USB drive in Linux Mint  H2S Media

While we have found recent Linux kernels paired with latest motherboard BIOS releases to work out generally well for recent AMD APUs, not everyone has been having a trouble-free experience on recent kernels. But an affected user has discovered a possible workaround if hitting stability issues...

A Possible Workaround For AMD APUs With Stability Issues On Recent Kernels  Phoronix

A Possible Workaround For AMD APUs With Stability Issues On Recent Kernels  Phoronix

Just under one month since the libinput 1.15 test release, this input handling library is now out with its official update...

Using Linux Operating Systems In Battlefield V Will Likely Result In A Permanent Ban  Happy Gamer

Using Linux Operating Systems In Battlefield V Will Likely Result In A Permanent Ban  Happy Gamer

ODROID-GO Advance Linux handheld games console $55  Geeky Gadgets

Fedora Linux has long been well known for always shipping with bleeding-edge GCC compiler releases even if it means a near-final pre-release, thanks in part to Red Hat's significant engineering resources to GCC and the GNU toolchain in general. With Fedora 32 it's expected to be no different with having the upcoming GCC 10 compiler...

Fedora 32 Goes Through Its Formalities To Land GCC 10 + Golang 1.14  Phoronix

Dell’s Upcoming XPS 13 Linux Laptop Includes A Highly Requested New Feature  Forbes

Dell’s Upcoming XPS 13 Linux Laptop Includes A Highly Requested New Feature  Forbes

Rust has drawn plenty of attention from programmers on sites like Hacker News for a while. While many have long loved using the language for hobby projects, it didn't start catching on in industry until 2019, when this really started to change.

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