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Going back to the end of 2018 was initial open-source "Nouveau" driver work on RTX 2000 / Turing GPUs as of Linux 5.0. But due to the lack of signed firmware images at the time, there was no actual hardware acceleration but just display/modesetting. The accelerated Turing support has come together recent so now here are benchmarks showing the open-source GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2080 performance of this open-source driver compared to the proprietary official driver.

WindowsFX is a Windows 10 clone Linux distro that you can install up to a Raspberry Pi  Explica

Coffee Lake monster loads up on SATA, PCIe, and M.2  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Computer Market To Eyewitness Massive Growth By 2025 | Dell, System76, HUAWEI, Lenovo  Personal Injury Bureau UK

File sharing system Nearby Share may support on Chrome OS, Windows, macOS, and Linux  TechnoSports

LibreOffice 7.0 is aiming for release in early August but for that release to be a success they need help in testing...

While GNOME 3.0 didn't debut until early 2011, GNOME 3.0 and GNOME Shell have now been in development for a decade. While GNOME Shell has come a long way over the past ten years, the UI/UX folks are still eyeing further enhancements to this widely used Linux desktop...

GNOME Shell Continues Eyeing Improvements As It Approaches 10 Years Old  Phoronix

New ExcelRT 3.0 Software for Mac, Windows and Linux Computers  ThomasNet News

Using a Pi to Synchronize Timed Events - Radio World  Radio World

It turns out for the GNOME 3.34 and 3.36 series, Mutter's window rendering culling code was broken and that led to extra rendering of windows not even visible... A fix is in the works and can lead to the performance doubling or more...

Android's Nearby Sharing Feature May Be Coming to Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS  Gadgets 360

New OmniOS Community Edition releases for this open-source Solaris/Illumos-based operating system are now available that principally bring updated Intel CPU microcode for mitigating the CrossTalk / SRBDS vulnerability...

OmniOS Updates Bring Microcode Mitigation For CrossTalk/SRBDS  Phoronix

After announcing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture at last month's virtual keynote, beginning today the NVIDIA A100 PCI Express accelerator is now shipping in GPU compute servers...

AI over Edge Computing Market (impact of COVID-19), Top key players – Intel,Huawei,OpenFog,Linux,China Telecom,Microsoft,Amazon,Zenlayer,Wangsu,ZTE  3rd Watch News

Windows 10 PCs: Why the new key to faster desktop applications is your GPU  TechRepublic

Home windows 10 Linux Subsystem: You Get GPU Acceleration - With Intel, AMD, Nvidia Drivers  Editorials 360

Google’s AirDrop rival could work with Windows, Macs, Linux and ChromeOS in addition to Android  Digit

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