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Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?  The Register

VMware's VMWGFX open-source Linux graphics driver stack for interfacing with their virtualization software to offer guest VM 3D acceleration that is in turn handled by the host's drivers will soon be offering OpenGL 4.x support...

VMware Plumbing OpenGL 4.x Support For The VMWGFX Graphics Stack  Phoronix

While Ubuntu is based on Debian, for those wondering how the performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is looking not only compared to the previous 19.10 and 18.04.4 LTS releases but also Debian 10.3 stable and Debian Testing, here are some benchmark results on an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X system.

Axiomtek CEM521 COM Express module comes with Intel Whiskey Lake-U and supports both Windows 10 and Linux  Notebookcheck.net

For longtime Linux users who were fans of the XMMS audio player in the early 2000's, Audacious 4.0 has been released as the newest version of this XMMS-inspired audio player...

XMMS-Inspired Audacious 4.0 Released With Move From GTK To Qt5 Toolkit  Phoronix

Linux 5.7 is seeing some infrastructure work to provide better out-of-the-box support for some touchscreens on Linux...

Linux 5.7 Adding Infrastructure To See Better Out-Of-The-Box Touchscreen Support  Phoronix

Mesa 20.1 So Far Contains Two PCI IDs So Far For Intel Xe Graphics Plus 9 Other Tiger Lake IDs  Phoronix

In recent days we have seen Intel refining their list of PCI IDs for the next-gen and highly anticipated "Gen12" graphics within the open-source Linux Mesa 20.1 driver stack...

KDE development is moving full-speed ahead amid the various lock-downs and other happenings around the world stemming from the novel coronavirus. This week saw a lot of interesting improvements for the open-source desktop...

Google Engineers Have Been Working On An AMD SB-TSI Temperature Driver  Phoronix

Google open-source engineers have been working on a temperature driver for AMD's SoC SB-TSI emulated temperature sensor for the Linux kernel...

Recently, we published an article about why developers prefer to code at night. Author Matt Shealy highlighted the many benefits of nocturnal programming including the quiet time and space for creative thinking.

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Hard to believe that former Linux developer Hans Reiser was already eligible for parole, but it was denied this month. The former developer responsible for creating the once-promising ReiserFS and Reiser4 file-systems will remain locked up for at least three more years...

Former Linux Developer Hans Reiser To Remain Locked Up  Phoronix

GNU Automake 1.16.2 is out this weekend as the first update to this important piece of the GNU build system in two years. While such length of time has passed, Automake 1.16.2 is only made up of just over three dozen commits...

Linux fsinfo() System Call Continues Maturing For Exposing More File-System + Mount Info  Phoronix

There has been a lot of interesting work happening in the Linux storage space in recent time like IO_uring, the countless file-system innovations, and other features -- including one addition that's now up to its nineteenth revision and is for providing more VFS/file-system and mount topology information...