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With yesterday's overview and benchmarks of Intel's Jump Conditional Code Erratum one of the areas where the performance impact of the updated CPU microcode exceeding Intel's 0~4% guidance was on the web browser performance. Now with more time having passed, here are more web browser benchmarks on both Chrome and Firefox while comparing the new CPU microcode release for the JCC Erratum compared to the previous release. Simply moving to this new CPU microcode does represent a significant hit to the web browser performance.

We could still have a 'Year of the Linux desktop'  ZDNet

As of this morning LibreOffice 6.4 was branched from master and the beta release tagged with those LO 6.4 Beta binaries expected out shortly...

Automation controller switches to Real-time Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

AMD on Tuesday released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q4 for Linux package as their newest quarterly driver release intended for their professional graphics card offerings...

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q4 for Linux Released  Phoronix

The Khronos Group has been expanding into a lot of new areas in recent times from OpenXR to 3D Commerce to NNEF and now forming an exploratory group for creating an analytic rendering API...

GNS3 is an open source graphical network simulator for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks Technology News

Linux vs. Zombieland v2: The security battle continues  ZDNet

Linux Operating System Market Future Outlook | openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Galus Australis

Linux Operating System Market Future Outlook | openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Galus Australis

This Linux-Based Smartphone Will Keep You Completely Anonymous  Fossbytes

The second development release of Phoronix Test Suite 9.2-Hurdal is now available for open-source, cross-platform and fully-automated benchmarking...

Another Intel change being sent off for Linux 5.4 and to be back-ported to current stable series is disabling of HPET for Coffee Lake systems...

The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For Intel Coffee Lake  Phoronix

Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu OSes  Softpedia News

Ntablet Linux commercial open-source tablet from $225  Geeky Gadgets

What is Security Onion? And is it better than a commercial IDS?  CSO Online

PureLocker Ransomware Can Lock Files on Windows, Linux, and macOS  BleepingComputer

Over the past year Code Sourcery / Mentor Graphics has been working extensively on the new AMD Radeon "GCN" back-end for the GCC code compiler. With the code that is found in GCC 9 and up to now in GCC 10 hasn't supported OpenMP/OpenACC parallel programming interfaces but that could soon change with patches under review...