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Pop!_OS 20.04 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Performance  Phoronix

A Phoronix Premium reader recently asked about whether Pop!_OS 20.04 performance differs from Ubuntu 20.04 given some underlying changes made by System76 to their distribution, besides the plethora of higher-level desktop improvements. Well, here are some benchmarks.

You may recall towards the end of last year when the Pango layout engine library dropped support for bitmap fonts, causing frustrations among some users. There now appears to be another Linux font debacle brewing...

The Latest Pango + HarfBuzz Is Leading To A Messy Font Rendering Situation For Some  Phoronix

5 reasons you might want to run Linux on your Chromebook  About Chromebooks

Managing Linux After SCCM Support EOL  Security Boulevard

Intel Rocket Lake Platform Support Added To Mesa 20.2  Phoronix

Open Source And Automotive Safety Critical Systems: What Are The Tradeoffs ?  Forbes

Debian 10.4 is out this weekend as their fourth stable update to Debian Buster...

Debian 10.4 Released With Many Fixes, Security Updates  Phoronix

Last week Intel open-source developers sent out their initial kernel driver patches for Rocket Lake graphics support and now the Rocket Lake platform support has been merged for Mesa 20.2 on the OpenGL/Vulkan driver side...

Ubuntu Studio, the spin of Ubuntu focused on multimedia production, announced last month that for their 20.10 release due out later this year they would be transitioning from their long-standing Xfce desktop environment over to using KDE Plasma. While still in early form, the transition is going ahead quite well...

Wine 5.8 was released on Friday with a GIF encoder, more WIneD3D Vulkan progress, and other changes while out today is Wine-Staging 5.8 for this experimental blend...

It's been another busy week for KDE developers even with everything happening globally around the coronavirus there are a lot of open-source desktop innovations continuing...

CPUs for Debian Buster - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

The FreeType library that is used by many open-source projects for font rendering and other font operations, is out with their first release of the year...

Student Developers Prefer Microsoft Windows Over Ubuntu And Arch Linux  Fossbytes

Developed by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code is a free and open-source, cross-platform IDE or code editor that enables developers to develop applications and write code using a myriad of programming languages such as C,...

In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we see the success of virtual conferences, continued impact of open source on COVID-19, Retropie adds support for Raspberry Pi 4, and more open source news.

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Indian Startup Dhiway Joins the ToIP Global Foundation as Founding Member  Goa Chronicle