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In addition to Intel talking a lot today in virtual briefings about the new 11th Gen "Tiger Lake" mobile processors, they were also talking at a higher level extensively on their second-generation "Project Athena" laptop innovation program and their new Intel Evo branding for premium laptops...

You Probably Won't See Intel Evo "Project Athena" Linux Laptops In The Near Term  Phoronix

After a small dip in July, how did the Steam on Linux gaming marketshare end out for August prior to many gamers returning to school and others still being isolated at home? A small uptick but still under the 1% threshold...

Steam On Linux Is Ending Summer 2020 At Just Under 0.9% Marketshare  Phoronix

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Research (2015-2026): In-depth Assessment of the Growth and other Aspects  Exchange 99

While Mesa 20.2 will hopefully be out next week, Mesa 20.1.7 is out today as the newest stable release for this collection of open-source Linux graphics drivers...

First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 5.8 Is Now Available for Download  LXer

NVIDIA software engineer Zi Yan who specializes in the Linux kernel memory management subsystem today sent out a set of patches proposing the addition of 1GB THP support for the Linux kernel...

Linux Foundation commits to addressing climate change with data and analytics  TechRepublic

Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" Launches  Phoronix

How to judge open-source projects  ZDNet

Intel Tiger Lake will soon begin appearing in laptops with an upgraded CPU architecture, the all new Iris Xe (Gen12) graphics, new AI capabilities, Thunderbolt 4, PCI Express 4.0, WiFi 6, and other new functionality. The Gen12 graphics have me most excited but there should be healthy improvements as well on the CPU side and not to mention improved connectivity.

Desperados 3 is now on Mac and Linux, and its first DLC is out  Rock Paper Shotgun

Linux and Security for Today's Embedded Medical Devices  Machine Design

Zoom calls on CrowdStrike to help beef up security posture  CRN Australia

Linux and Security for Today's Embedded Medical Devices  Electronic Design

Upstream developers are looking at phasing out Intel MMX that was popular in the late 90's but has since long been succeeded by SSE and AVX instruction set extensions...

IAR Systems streamlines Continuous Integration workflows and adds static code analysis in build tools for Linux  PRNewswire

IAR Systems Streamlines Continuous Integration Workflows and Adds Static Code Analysis in Build Tools for Linux  AiThority

SHADERed has been available for a while now as a cross-platform, open-source shader editor and for debugging and writing of graphics shaders. SHADERed not only runs on Linux and Windows now but through any modern web browser as of the new v1.4 release...