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The GrSecurity patches to the Linux kernel have long focused on security enhancements but this year they are said to be taking on a larger focus of performance optimizations...

GrSecurity Linux Kernel To Focus More On Performance This Year  Phoronix

Java 14 has reached general availability today with numerous updates to the JDK...

Meet the Chinese operating system that’s trying to shift the country off Windows  Abacus

Unity Tech has released the Unity 2020.1 game engine beta as their first quarterly update of the year...

Unity 2020.1 Beta Released With Numerous Vulkan + Linux Fixes  Phoronix

Fedora 32 Beta Linux-based operating system now available with GNOME 3.36  BetaNews

While the most prominent addition to today's Vulkan 1.2.135 update is the provisional ray-tracing support, there are also other new extensions with this update...

Can you play Call of Duty: Warzone on Mac and Linux?  Game Revolution

The beta of the highly anticipated Fedora 32 Linux distribution update is now available...

Fedora 32 Beta Released With EarlyOOM By Default, GNOME 3.36 Desktop  Phoronix

Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension  Phoronix

While Vulkan has had NVIDIA's ray-tracing extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing) extension, coming out today is Vulkan's first formal ray-tracing extension for cross-vendor/driver adoption.

A set of kernel patches to Intel's graphics driver helps improve the GPU power consumption to the extent of on Chrome OS seeing about 45 minutes extra battery life and several percent under the likes of Ubuntu Linux...

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Intel Continues Working On Significant GPU Power Optimization For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

AMD's EPYC Rome up to 5x Faster on Linux Netfilter With AVX2 Implementation  Tom's Hardware UK

AMD's EPYC Rome up to 5x Faster on Linux Netfilter With AVX2 Implementation  Tom's Hardware

Oracle continues releasing new updates to Solaris 11.4 but there still aren't any public signs of life past v11.4. Out now is Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU19 with one interesting addition...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Global Trend, Segmentation and Opportunities, Forecast 2026  EIN News