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Valve has just reported their January 2020 numbers from the controversial Steam Survey...

Steam Kicks Off 2020 With Linux Gaming At The Highest Point In A While  Phoronix

Following the recent beta release with a Clang-built kernel option and experimental Zypper as an alternative to DNF, OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 has been released as part of FOSDEM 2020 celebrations over in Brussels...

OpenMandriva 4.1 Released With Clang'ed LTO+PGO Packages, Linux 5.5 + More  Phoronix

The new "cpuidle_cooling" thermal driver in Linux 5.6 is similar to Intel's PowerClamp driver and RAPL framework but is generic for working across CPUs/architectures as an idle cooling driver to cool down CPUs/SoCs by injecting idle cycles at run-time...

Linux 5.6 Adds New CPU Cooling Mechanism With Generic Idle Cooling Driver  Phoronix

Red Hat's Karol Herbst spoke at the FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels on the state of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux graphics driver stack...

Chrome OS 81 Dev Channel adds Buster upgrade, Linux disk resizing and username choice to Chromebooks  About Chromebooks

Configuring AWS Linux Servers With LDAP  Security Boulevard

The Linux 5.6 media driver updates have landed in the kernel...

Linux 5.6 Media Updates Bring Improvements For Rockchip Users  Phoronix

Two important pieces of the GNU toolchain saw new releases to kickoff February...

Linux has Fixed Year 2038 Bug in Linux Kernel 5.6  TechViral

There is plenty of PCI work that landed for the Linux 5.6 kernel merge window...

Intel Gateway SoC Enablement Continues With Linux 5.6 Plus Other PCI/PCIe Changes  Phoronix

During the first month of 2020 on Phoronix were 305 original news stories and another 18 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles. Here is a look back at what has been exciting Linux and open-source enthusiasts so far in 2020...

Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January  Phoronix

Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January  Phoronix

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look ProtonVPN apps going open, Microsoft's code analysis tool, Mozilla Thunderbird's new home, and more!

ProtonVPN apps go open source

People wanting to use the internet securely and privately do the deed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). But which VPNs can you really trust? The company behind the popular ProtonVPN service made a big move to gain that trust by releasing the source code for all its apps.

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Intel on Friday released Deep Neural Network Library (DNNL) version 1.2, formerly known as MKL-DNN. With this release comes both new features and better performance...