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Disney+ Currently Won't Work On Linux Systems Due To Tightened DRM  Phoronix

Well, here is a surprise... The Libre RISC-V project that is trying to build an "open-source GPU" more along the lines as a Vulkan accelerator is looking at other options besides RISC-V. While RISC-V is royalty-free and open-source in nature, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton is not content with the RISC-V Foundation and is evaluating the likes of POWER and MIPS...

AMD's Radeon Image Sharpening feature is designed to improve image quality with minimal performance costs. However, it is only supported by Radeon Polaris / Vega / Navi graphics cards and only under Microsoft Windows 10. An independent open-source project has implemented contrast adaptive sharpening support for Vulkan that is similar to Radeon Image Sharpening but will work for any Vulkan-enabled GPU -- including NVIDIA GPUs...

Top 8 Wget commands to use while downloading files on Linux  H2S Media

Prominent Xfce developer Simon Steinbeiß has shared more of the group's plans for the planned 2020 release of Xfce 4.16...

With the early Librem 5 smartphones now shipping from their "Aspen" batch and recent Reddit discussions about the Librem 5 roping him in, former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric has agreed to a brief interview on Phoronix...

An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO  Phoronix

GNOME 3.35.1 was released this morning as the first development release towards GNOME 3.36 next March...

KDE developers remain busy this autumn on addressing bugs in the recent KDE Plasma 5.17 release and tackling early feature work for Plasma 5.18. Plus work on KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Applications is as busy as ever...

Global Linux Operating System Market 2019 – IBM , Ubuntu Linux , Linux Mint , Elementary OS , openSUSE , Fedora Linux  Market Research Magazine

By confirming the demise of Linux on DeX, did Samsung confirm Android 10 for Tab S4 and Note 9?  Ausdroid

Linux Software Market By Prominent Players like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon  Market Research Scoop

Landing this week in Mesa 19.3-devel were more functions being implemented around the big OpenGL EXT_direct_state_access extension...

While SYCL has been around for five years as a Khronos standard providing a single-source C++ programming model for exploiting OpenCL, it has yet to reach its prime but demand for it is picking up with Intel working to upstream their SYCL back-end in LLVM, SYCL becoming part of their programming model with oneAPI and Xe Graphics, and other vendors also jumping on the SYCL bandwagon. Codeplay has now provided an open-source SYCL learning code for those interested in this higher-level alternative to straight OpenCL programming...

While the MSM+Freedreno open-source graphics driver stack already supports the Adreno 500 and 600 series, one of the GPUs not seeing support until now was the basic Adreno 510. Kernel patches are pending for A510 enablement while the Mesa support was already merged...

1. Samsung won't support Linux on DeX once Android 10 arrives  Engadget
2. Samsung is discontinuing Linux support on Dex - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com
3. Samsung ends Linux on DeX beta with the Android 10 update  XDA Developers
4. Samsung ends Linux on DeX without ever releasing a stable version  SamMobile
5. Samsung will kill Linux on Dex with the upcoming Android 10 update  MSPoweruser
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deepin Linux 20 looks incredible  BetaNews

System76 has released their newest operating system update of their Pop!_OS distribution based upon Ubuntu. Pop!_OS 19.10 is based upon this week's release of Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" but adding various extra changes and enhancements...

Forbes Raves Upcoming Linux Desktop will enclose Windows 10 and macOS & # 39  gotech daily

Samsung ends Linux on DeX without ever releasing a stable version  SamMobile