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With our early benchmarking of Ubuntu 20.04 in its current nearing the end of development state, we've been seeing Ubuntu 20.04 boosting Intel Xeon Scalable performance, running well with AMD EPYC Rome, and good AMD Ryzen performance, among other tests. Strangely though the one platform where I've found Ubuntu 20.04 hard regressing so far is with the Dell XPS 7390 Ice Lake...

This week marked the release of ROCm 3.3 as the newest version of the Radeon Open Compute stack...

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Added over a year ago to the mainline Linux kernel was the high resolution mouse wheel scrolling support. While the support landed on kernel-side for to provide "buttery smooth" wheel scrolling, the work has yet to be wrapped up on the user-space side for making this a reality on the Linux desktop...

High Resolution Wheel Scrolling Back To Being Finished Up For The Linux Desktop  Phoronix

It's been another busy week for Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver with the Valve-backed ACO compiler back-end alternative to AMDGPU LLVM...

AMD ACO Backend Implements 8-bit / 16-bit Storage Capabilities - Needed For DOOM Eternal  Phoronix

With Steam and other online gaming platforms seeing record usage in recent weeks as a result of home isolation around the world as a result of the coronavirus, one of the matters of curiosity has been how this will impact the Linux gaming percentage...

Steam Survey Points To Tiny Uptick In Linux Percentage For March  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent in his "char/misc" updates for the Linux 5.7 kernel several days later than normal...

Linux 5.7's Char/Misc Brings MHI Bus, Habana Labs AI Accelerator Code Additions  Phoronix

Embedded Linux joins the Covid-19 battle  LinuxGizmos.com

Embedded Linux joins the Covid-19 battle  LinuxGizmos.com

Proton 5.0-6 To Allow Out-Of-The-Box DOOM Eternal On Linux  Phoronix

Valve is finishing up work on Proton 5.0-6 as the next version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play. With Proton 5.0-6 are some promising improvements...

The recently covered NIR vectorization pass ported from AMD's ACO back-end for improving the open-source Intel Linux graphics performance has landed now in Mesa 20.1...

NIR Vectorization Lands In Mesa 20.1 For Big Intel Graphics Performance Boost  Phoronix

Huawei changes its patent story  ZDNet

Ada is a beautiful programming language when it comes to code safety with it continuing to be used by aircraft and other safety critical systems. There is now Ada++ as an unofficial fork of the language focused on making the language more accessible and friendlier in an era of the likes of Rust and Golang attracting much interest...

The PCI subsystem changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 5.7 kernel merge window...