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Mesa 20.1 Adds A Vulkan Device Selection Layer For Better Handling Multi-GPU Setups  Phoronix

Canonical finally announced the availability of Ubuntu 20.04, the new release came with many updated packages and programs which is very good for people who are looking for the most updated packages. In this...

Those running the RADV Vulkan driver on AMD APUs could soon find themselves having even better performance in select games...

Each year during Red Hat Summit, we recognize Red Hat Certified Professionals who demonstrate ingenuity, hard work and expertise by making a difference in their organizations. We’re proud to announce that Fabrice Harbulot, cloud engineer and Red Hat Certified Architect Level VII, has been named the 2020 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.

In past years, I’ve written heavily about the importance of the open hybrid cloud to the present and future of enterprise IT.

Welcome to Red Hat Summit 2020 - our first virtual-only Summit. We are all facing unprecedented global events. From the COVID-19 pandemic and the grim situation facing healthcare systems to the worldwide economic struggles the disease is leaving in its wake, why would we even hold a technology conference, virtual or otherwise?

RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs  Phoronix

Initial Benchmarks Of The AMD EPYC 7F32 Performance On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Phoronix

Announced back on 14 April were AMD's newest members of the EPYC 7002 "Rome" family, the 7Fx2 high frequency processors. Back on launch day we posted the AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux benchmarks for that 16-core/32-thread CPU with a staggering 256MB cache and clocking up to 3.9GHz. In this article today are our initial benchmarks of the EPYC 7F32 as the 8-core/16-thread processor yielding a 128MB L3 cache and clock speeds up to 3.9GHz.

Red Hat Releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2  TechDecisions

Can't get Virtualbox to download on Linux Mint. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Micron announced today the "World’s First Open-Source Storage Engine Designed for SSDs and Storage Class Memory"... Or simply put, yet another key-value store database and this time designed for high performance SSDs and persistent memory...

Micron Announces An Open-Source Storage Engine Designed For SSDs, Persistent Memory  Phoronix

Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club  Ars Technica

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

cant install W XP in virtualbox, Mint19.3 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

28 antivirus products share nasty flaw that can brick your PC: What you need to know  Tom's Guide

Windows vs. MacOS vs. Chrome OS vs. Ubuntu Linux: Which Operating System Reigns Supreme?  PCMag.com

First impressions of a $200 Linux laptop  Boing Boing

For the past five months there has been a bug report affecting the likes of Pop OS 19.10 and Fedora 31 over the GNOME Shell Calendar server using "20~25% CPU all the time" and "every 2-3 seconds or so there is a CPU usage spike where the calendar processes eat something like 20-25% of the CPU." That is significant on modern CPUs as well as on battery life for laptops while finally the issue has been fixed...