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CodeWeavers' Derek Lesho has been working on Vulkan shared memory support for Wine to expose some interesting use-cases...

With Mesa 19.3 scheduled to be branched today and that marking the end of feature development for this next quarterly installment to these open-source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan drivers, developers are in a mad rush landing last minute improvements. The open-source Radeon driver support has a lot to stand in particular from today's work...

Fedora 31 released (Linux distros)  Liliputing

KDE Plasma 5.17.2 Desktop Environment Brings More Than 25 Bug Fixes, Update Now  Softpedia News

Pop!_OS 19.10 is a wonder that makes me wonder  TechRepublic

Ultracopier is an open source file copying tool for Windows, macOS and Linux  Ghacks Technology News

LTE-enabled IoT gateway runs Linux on i.MX8M Mini  LinuxGizmos.com

Intel CPUs can be exploited unless you disable hyper-threading, Linux dev claims  TechRadar

For those interested in running Android on x86 Intel/AMD hardware, the Android-x86 project is still churning along but while Google is onto Android 10, this project is still tracking Android 8 Oreo...

Intel Core i9 9900KS Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Today the Intel Core i9 9900KS is shipping at $513 USD for this specially-binned Coffeelake CPU that is capable of achieving a 5.0GHz all-core turbo frequency. The all-core 5.0GHz turbo is great, but it remains an eight-core / sixteen-thread 14nm processor going up against AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 9 3900X. Here are our initial benchmarks of the Core i9 9900KS compared to the Core i9 9900K and Ryzen 9 3900X.

Intel's IWD wireless daemon for Linux systems that could potentially replace WPA_Supplicant has reached the big 1.0 milestone...

IWD 1.0 Released As Intel's Wireless Daemon For Linux Systems  Phoronix

SUSE Brings Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud to Meet Growing Demand for Cloud-Based Business Deployments  PRNewswire

Linux kernel is getting more reliable, says Linus Torvalds. Plus: What do you need to do to be him?  The Register

Deprecated for the upcoming GCC 10 compiler release and set for removal in GCC 11 one year later is the CC0 representation code that is being used for handle condition codes in GCC back-ends. That in turn means a number of older CPU targets will be removed in GCC 11 should they not receive some development attention to transition them to the modern MODE_CC representation...

While many fled from GitHub to GitLab following Microsoft acquiring the code hosting service, GitLab has come under a bit of fire of its own with plans they had been working on around telemetry support that would begin tracking its users and potentially sharing the data with third-party firms...

Google Chrome seventy eight for Home windows, macOS and Linux is Now Readily available For Download  asume tech

Latest Windows 10 20H1 preview brings Linux memory improvements - and more ways to express yourself  ZDNet

Fedora 31 Linux distribution is out: here is what is new  Ghacks Technology News