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Back in October 2018 came the initial patches for providing per-process GPU usage reporting to be exposed to user-space for interesting metrics akin to the top command or other system monitoring utilities but for detailed GPU statistics. In October that interesting work finally saw a revision but went dark after that and didn't make it into the recent Linux 5.5 merge window. Now a new spin of that code has been sent out for review...

Intel Linux Driver Support Revived Again For Interesting Per-Process Usage Reporting  Phoronix

Huawei isn't known as much of an upstream contributor to the GNU toolchain and as far as GNU C Library (glibc) commits go prior to Thursday had just authored three patches from a Huawei emailing address. But that count more than doubled thanks to some optimizations they have successfully landed upstream...

As we head into the end of 2019, I’ve been reflecting on the past year. This has been a time of immense opportunity, successes and growth for Red Hat and our associates. 

Microsoft Made More Linux / Open-Source Announcements In 2019 From exFAT To WSL2  Phoronix

Under the continued guidance of Satya Nadella, Microsoft made more interesting open-source / Linux moves in 2019 most notably with allowing exFAT support to be introduced into the mainline Linux kernel and also introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux 2...

While much of the lure to Gentoo Linux is on being a source-based distribution and assembling your system packages from source, some Gentoo developers are toying with the idea of providing some new kernel binary options similar to that of the more conventional binary Linux distributions...

Gentoo Developers Exploring The Possibility Of Shipping Distribution Binary Kernels  Phoronix

LInux-driven module supports the highest-powered UltraScale+ models  LinuxGizmos.com

Following last week's release of Chrome 79, the Chrome 80 web browser has been promoted to beta,..

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Just in time for those taking advantage of Valve's annual Steam Winter Sale, a new release of the Wine-based Proton software is now available that powers Steam Play for running Windows games generally very well on Linux...

Cloud computing training startup acquires Linux Academy  Dallas Business Journal

Alpine Linux is a distribution that prides itself on being "small, simple and secure" with being a lightweight distribution built off Musl libc and Busybox and popular for use within containers. But with today's Alpine Linux 3.11 release they are seemingly pursuing desktop Linux support...

Alpine Linux 3.11 Introduces KDE/GNOME Desktop Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Compatibility  Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.11 Introduces KDE/GNOME Desktop Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Compatibility  Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.11 Released with Linux Kernel 5.4 and Raspberry Pi 4 Support  Softpedia News

Angel, a Machine Learning Platform Contributed by Tencent, Graduates from Linux Foundation AI  PRNewswire

Osquery vs. OSSEC: Which Is Best for Linux Security in 2020?  Security Boulevard

Mesa 20.0's RADV + ACO Vulkan Driver Now Consistently Beating AMD's AMDVLK Linux Driver  Phoronix