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While no major performance improvements were noted as part of the release notes, given this week's Firefox 72 release here are some fresh benchmarks of Firefox 70/71/72 on Ubuntu Linux benchmarked with and without WebRender being enabled. As well, these numbers show how Firefox on Linux is currently stacking up against Google Chrome 79 as its latest stable release.

While Intel has offered good Ice Lake support since before the CPUs were shipping (sans taking a bit longer for the Thunderbolt support as a key lone exception, since resolved), a feature that's been publicly known since 2017 is the Fast Short REP MOV behavior and finally with Linux 5.6 that is being made use of for faster memory movements...

Linux 5.6 To Make Use Of Intel Ice Lake's Fast Short REP MOV For Faster memmove()  Phoronix

Linux 5.6 To Make Use Of Intel Ice Lake's Fast Short REP MOV For Faster memmove()  Phoronix

In addition to Intel IGC network driver performance-boosting TSO support, also queued within Intel's next-queue tree of networking changes is a new software bus called Virtual Bus...

Intel Working On "Virtual Bus" As Generic Way Of Exchanging Data Between Devices/Driver  Phoronix

NXP's Linux-driven, safety-critical automotive SoC mixes Cortex-A53 with -M7  LinuxGizmos.com

How to install Tor browser on Kali Linux via Terminal  H2S Media

Cumulus's Linux to Run Networks for Large HPE Storage Clusters  Data Center Knowledge

Apple AirScan is akin to their AirPrint technology for supporting various printers from Apple devices without the need for specialized drivers. Multi-function printers compliant with AirPrint also need to implement AirScan for scanner functionality, thus opening up most of today's multi-function printers to supporting this scanning standard. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS could end up supporting AirScan nicely thanks to new SANE back-ends...

Quietly released over the holidays was Intel's quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver that serves as their modern open-source GPU-accelerated video encode/decode solution for Linux systems...

Intel Media Driver Q4-19 Brings Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Better Encode/Decode  Phoronix

Given the recent discussions over the default performance of the Linux scheduler, the Liquorix patches to the Linux kernel, and other recent forum discussions over different kernel configurations and flavors, here are some reference benchmarks looking at the performance of some of the kernel options available to Clear Linux users...

Huawei unveils openEuler, CentOS-based Linux distribution  www.computing.co.uk

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  ITworld

The best Linux laptop  Hartford Courant

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

The best Linux laptop  Chicago Tribune

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia

How AppArmor can protect your Linux system  Techworld Australia