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Microsoft releases Windows 10 20H1 Build 18980 with more Cortana and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) improvements  BetaNews

Recent Windows 10 Insider builds from the 20H1 branch (set for release next spring) have introduced quite a few welcome new features, and today's new flight, ...

AMD Navi 14 Workstation Graphics Cards Discovered In Linux Driver Update  Hot Hardware

A patch for Linux hints at AMD getting ready to release workstation cards built around its Navi GPU architecture.

Two years ago NVIDIA announced the NVDLA as an open-source hardware project with this "NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator" to be a free and open architecture for inference accelerators. NVIDIA has now expanded the open-source software ecosystem around NVDLA...

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmarks On 11 Linux Distributions  Phoronix

Now that BIOS updates over the past month have resolved the early boot issue with Ryzen 3000 processors and thus the new AMD CPUs playing nicely with ...

Now that BIOS updates over the past month have resolved the early boot issue with Ryzen 3000 processors and thus the new AMD CPUs playing nicely with modern Linux distributions, here is the long-awaited benchmark comparison of the Ryzen 9 3900X + X570 system benchmarked across an array of different Linux distributions... In fact, 11 Linux OS releases in total were tested on this high-end 12-core / 24-thread desktop processor.

Canonical Fixes Linux 4.15 Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS  Softpedia News

Earlier this month, Canonical published major Linux kernel security updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, addressing no less than 28 ...

Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Neowin

Today's highlighted deal comes via our Gear + Gadgets section of the Neowin Deals store, where for only a limited time you can save 13% off the VoCore2 Mini ...

Save 13% off this VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer Bundle  Neowin

Today's highlighted deal comes via our Gear + Gadgets section of the Neowin Deals store, where for only a limited time you can save 13% off the VoCore2 Mini ...

Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk KVM-RT  Yahoo Finance

RedHawk Linux together with the KVM hypervisor offers guaranteed real-time performance in virtual environments POMPANO BEACH, Fla. , Sept. 11, 2019 ...

Google has rolled out Chrome 77 into their stable channel as the newest version of their lightning fast web browser for Linux...

Google Chrome 77 Is Out for Linux, Android, Windows & Mac with 52 Security Fixes  Softpedia News

Introduces new performance metrics and form capabilities.

AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware for being able to encrypt portions of the video memory...

AMD "Trusted Memory Zone" Encrypted vRAM Support Coming To Their Linux GPU Driver  Phoronix

AMD Trusted Memory Zone support is a new feature being worked on for their open-source graphics driver that works in conjunction with the graphics hardware ...

Arm has now joined Intel, HP Enterprise, Google, Microsoft, Dell EMC, and others in backing the new Compute Express Link (CXL) effort as the interconnect for future accelerators...

Acer Begins Publishing UEFI Firmware Updates For Linux Users On LVFS For Fwupd  Phoronix

Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware ...

Following a lengthy evaluation period, Acer is the latest hardware manufacturer offering firmware updates for their products via the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easily applying these updates from the Linux desktop with Fwupd...

With the big GNOME 3.34 release coming out this week, the GNOME 3.36 release schedule has now been published...

Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster. They started out with around a three second kernel boot time but cut it down to just 300 ms...

How Intel's Clear Linux Team Cut The Kernel Boot Time From 3 Seconds To 300 ms  Phoronix

Intel engineer Feng Tang spoke at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal on how the Clear Linux team managed to boot their kernel faster.

Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that's a good thing)  Ars Technica

If you skipped the last release, Debian 10 (Buster) should encourage an update into 2019.