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NVIDIA's Proactive Memory Compaction Work Revised For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

NVIDIA's Proactive Memory Compaction Work Revised For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While it's taking painfully long to get X.Org Server 1.21 organized for release, at least in the interim there continues to be new xorg-server 1.20 point releases that back-port many of the prominent fixes...

When we polled our readers nearly 4 years ago with this question, most people responded that they did not have any devices connected to the Internet of Things. However these days, there are approximately three connected devices per capita globally and that number is only expected to grow. Of course, not every person has exactly three devices. Some people have ten and others still have none.

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While the Linux 5.5 cycle begins next week, looking ahead to early next year when the Linux 5.6 cycle will begin, there is expected to be another power management improvement coming for AMD Radeon graphics cards...

Linux 5.6 Will Bring Another Radeon Run-Time Power Management Improvement  Phoronix

Mutt is a command line email app for Linux and here's how to set it up  Ghacks Technology News

In this article, you will learn how to install the dig command and nslookup command on Linux. These commands are used for network troubleshooting and gathering information about domain names. Dig, short for Domain...

A few days ago 7 Days to Die saw a performance boost on Mesa Git from its "glthread" threading implementation while now a number of game emulators have seen similar whitelisting...

Ending out the week is an exciting development in the Intel open-source graphics driver space... Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support! This is another step towards their upcoming discrete Xe GPUs and ultimately their exciting oneAPI conquest...

Intel SVM Support Published For Linux - Another Step On The March To Xe GPUs  Phoronix

Intel SVM Support Published For Linux - Another Step On The March To Xe GPUs  Phoronix

PinePhone smartphone can run desktop Linux apps, also makes phone calls  Liliputing

The inaugural release of Glimpse is now available, the fork born out of calls for renaming The GIMP project to something not considered offensive...

Dozens of VNC Vulnerabilities Found in Linux, Windows Solutions  BleepingComputer

RADV's ACO Back-End Is Helping Radeon Navi Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

It's been almost two months since last looking at the RADV ACO performance for this shader compiler back-end alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM code. ACO is making its debut in the upcoming Mesa 19.3 release while since the last round of testing have been more optimizations and fixes as well as getting the Navi/GFX10 support in place. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Vulkan RADV ACO support for not only Polaris and Vega but also the Radeon RX 5700 Navi graphics cards.

Cleverly Reimagined Slax Distro Pushes Portable Linux's Limits  LinuxInsider.com

Cleverly Reimagined Slax Distro Pushes Portable Linux's Limits  LinuxInsider.com

The Linux 5.4 kernel is to be released on Sunday and that will in turn kick-off the Linux 5.5 merge window. Here is a look at some of the changes on the table for what will in turn be the first major stable kernel release of 2020...