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Firefox vs. Chrome Browser Performance On Intel Ice Lake + Power/Memory Usage Tests  Phoronix

Using Firefox 70 (including WebRender) and Google Chrome 78, here are our latest round of Linux web browser benchmarks tested on the Dell XPS Ice Lake laptop. Making this round of Linux browser benchmarking more interesting is also including power consumption and RAM usage metrics for the different browser benchmarks.

Debian 10.2 is out this morning as the latest point release to the "Buster" series...

Wine 4.20 came out last night while out today is Wine-Staging 4.20 as this experimental blend of Wine with more than eight-hundred extra patches on top...

With a change merged Friday night for the nearly over Linux 5.4 cycle, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme 2nd Gen laptop should see better touchpad input support...

Lenovo X1 Extreme 2nd Generation To Have Better Touchpad Input On Linux 5.4  Phoronix

PinePhone “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux Smartphone is Now Available for $150  CNX Software

I recently served on a panel about growth opportunities in open source at the Open Source India conference in Bengaluru. As you might expect, my fellow panelists and I approached the topic from widely varying perspectives, and I came away with the feeling that we may have confused many in the audience rather than enlightening them.

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While most Linux gamers don't appear to be into GPU overclocking, one of the limitations of the Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" series support with the AMD open-source driver to date has been no overclocking support. With the upcoming Linux 5.5 kernel that is set to change...

AMD OverDrive Overclocking To Finally Work For Radeon Navi GPUs With Linux 5.5 Kernel  Phoronix

If you are looking to monitor your system interactively, then the htop command should be one of your best options. An improvement of its predecessor top command, htop is an interactive process viewer and...

For the past four years going back to Linux 5.5 has been EXT4 native file-system encryption making use of the kernel's FSCRYPT framework that is shared between several file-systems. That support has continued to improve with time and with Linux 5.5 another limitation will be dropped...

EXT4 On Linux 5.5 To Support Encryption On Smaller Block Sizes  Phoronix

Crostini Will Now Use Debian 10 as The Default Linux Container – ItsChromeOS | Chromebooks | Chromeboxes | Chromecast | Assistant | Guides & Reviews  ItsChromeOS

Crostini Will Now Use Debian 10 as The Default Linux Container – ItsChromeOS | Chromebooks | Chromeboxes | Chromecast | Assistant | Guides & Reviews  ItsChromeOS News

Wine 4.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this open-source project allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and other non-Microsoft platforms...

Making waves this afternoon is word of the NUVIA server CPU start-up landing its series A funding round and thus making more information known on this new silicon start-up...

NUVIA To Make Serious Play For New CPUs In The Datacenter, Hires Linux/OSS Veteran  Phoronix

Librem 5 "Birch" batch was supposed to be shipping from 29 October to 26 November. They are now preparing to start shipping this second iteration of the Librem 5 Linux smartphone after early units in this batch were missing a resistor...

Drew DeVault of Sway/WL-ROOTS notoriety and longtime Wayland developer Simon Ser have started development on WXRC, a new Wayland compositor...