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Since 2012 there has been a quirk in the Linux kernel to disable/override using ACPI _PSD data on all AMD processors as a workaround in turn for Windows-specific behavior that clashes with the semantics of the Linux ACPI CPUFreq driver for CPU frequency scaling. With AMD Zen 3 this quirk is no longer needed to behave correctly and thus Linux 5.10 is going to drop this eight year old quirk on Zen 3 and newer...

Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround  Phoronix

Building off the Friday release of Wine 5.20, a new Wine-Staging release is now available that is carrying more than 750 patches atop the upstream code-base that are currently undergoing testing...

Complementing the ARM(64) architecture changes for Linux 5.10 are now the SoC and board updates that are quite interesting this round...

Linux 5.10 Has Initial Support For NVIDIA Orin, DeviceTree For Purism's Librem 5  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Investment Analysis | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  TechnoWeekly

Pop!_OS 20.10 Released: 5 New Features Of Ubuntu-based Linux Distro  Fossbytes

Version 0.23 of the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine was released this week in continuing to focus on being a high performance, open-source JVM...

The EXT4 file-system updates have landed in Linux 5.10 with some notable additions for this mature file-system...

EXT4 Changes Land In Linux 5.10 With Fast Commits, Big Boost For Parallel Writes  Phoronix

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Wine 5.20 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development milestone for this solution to run Windows games and other software on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Wine 5.20 Released With Various Improvements For Running Windows Software On Linux  Phoronix

Wine 5.20 Released With Various Improvements For Running Windows Software On Linux  Phoronix

System76's Pop!_OS 20.10 Ubuntu-based Linux distro now available for download  BetaNews

Podcast 090: DIY Linux SBC, HDMI CEC, Fake Bluepills, And SCARA Arms | Hackaday  Hackaday

Since picking up the Dell XPS 13 9310 for delivering Tiger Lake Linux benchmarks, most of the focus so far has been about the overall processor performance while in this article is our first deep dive into the Gen12 Xe Graphics performance on Linux with Intel's fully open-source graphics and compute stack. Here is a look at how the Tiger Lake Xe Graphics performance is with the Core i7-1165G7 ranging from OpenGL and Vulkan graphics tests to OpenCL, oneAPI Level Zero, and Vulkan compute tests.

AMD SFH Driver To Land With Linux 5.11 For Better Ryzen Laptop Handling In 2021  Phoronix

AMD SFH Driver To Land With Linux 5.11 For Better Ryzen Laptop Handling In 2021  Phoronix

It was sadly too late for squeezing into the current Linux 5.10 merge window but it looks like for Linux 5.11 in early 2021 the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub "SFH" driver will make its long awaited debut...