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For the past two months we have been testing the System76 Thelio Major and it's been working out extremely well with performance and reliability. The Thelio Major offering with options for Intel Core X-Series or AMD Ryzen Threadripper and resides between their standard Thelio desktop with Ryzen/Core CPUs and the Thelio Massive that sports dual Intel Xeon CPUs.

System76 Thelio Major Proves To Be A Major Player For Linux Workstations Review  Phoronix

For years we have been looking forward to X-Plane with a new Vulkan renderer to replace its aging OpenGL renderer. Finally today the X-Plane 11.50 Beta has been made public for this realistic flight simulator that supports Metal on Apple platforms and Vulkan everywhere else...

Sosumi, an easy way to install macOS on Ubuntu Linux, but didn't work  H2S Media

2020 TRENDING LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM MARKET LATEST RESEARCH : OPENSUSE, FEDORA LINUX, ARCH LINUX, DEBIAN, MANJARO  Publicist360

Following last month's release of GNOME 3.36 with its many new features and performance improvements, GNOME 3.36.1 is out today with the first batch of updates/fixes to this H1'2020 open-source desktop...

Well known open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has enabled more Linux games to run with Mesa's GLTHREAD functionality enabled for helping with the performance...

PinePhone 'Community Edition' Linux Phone With Ubuntu Touch: All You Need To Know  Fossbytes

ProtonMail Bridge support finally arrives on Linux  Neowin

ProtonMail Bridge support finally arrives on Linux  Neowin

ProtonMail Bridge support finally arrives on Linux  Neowin

The Linux Foundation to Award 500 Training Scholarships  DevOps.com

PinePhone “Community Edition: UBports” Linux Phone Launched with Ubuntu Touch  CNX Software

Embedded Linux Implementation Services: Enabling Linux Deployments  WIND

LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience  Phoronix

LXD 4.0 LTS Released For Offering The Latest Linux Containers Experience  Phoronix

Ahead of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release later this month, the Canonical folks working on LXD for Linux containers and VMs have released LXD 4.0 LTS...

SUSE's David Sterba sent in the Btrfs file-system updates this week for the Linux 5.7 kernel...

Huawei joins Major US-based open-source patent protection consortium OIN  ZDNet

Yesterday we noted Intel's programming reference manual being updated with new Golden Cove instructions for Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake and with that Intel's open-source developers have begun pushing their changes to the compilers. The latest updates add TSXLDTRK, a new HYBRID bit for Core+Atom hybrd CPUs, and a new SERIALIZE instruction. After GCC was receiving the patch attention yesterday, LLVM is getting its attention today...