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A Few More Linux Kernel Patches Floated This Week For AMD Family 19h (Zen 3)  Phoronix

Big "open-source" achievements aren't too common for NVIDIA or Microsoft much less together, but thanks to their open-source work on the DXC DirectXCompiler it's possible to easily convert HLSL DXR shaders to SPIR-V for Vulkan...

Google's Summer of Code initiative for getting students involved with open-source development during the summer months is now into its sixteenth year. This week Google announced the 200 open-source projects participating in GSoC 2020...

AMDVLK 2020.Q1.2 is out as the first official AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver code drop in one month...

Meet CSI Linux: A Linux Distribution For Cyber Investigation And OSINT  Fossbytes

Meet CSI Linux: A Linux Distribution For Cyber Investigation And OSINT  Fossbytes

Linux to get iPhone fast charging support  iLounge

Linux to get iPhone fast charging support  iLounge

DStv Now working on Linux streaming problems  MyBroadband

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After South Korea, Polish Government Increases Use Of Linux  Fossbytes

CodeWeavers working under contract for Valve on their Wine downstream Proton is out with a new update to their Proton 5.0 series...

Steam Play's Proton 5.0-3 Released With Support For Metro Exodus Direct3D 12 Mode  Phoronix

Dev kit and SMARC module run Linux on a Rockchip PX30  LinuxGizmos.com

Dev kit and SMARC module run Linux on a Rockchip PX30  LinuxGizmos.com

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market by Leading players: Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Tencent, Kingsoft, SG WORK, yiqixie.com, and WordPerfect  News Parents

Freespire 6.0: A Return to GNOME2's Simpler Linux Days  LinuxInsider.com

Cloud, Linux vendors cash in on KVM-based virtualization  TechTarget

Benchmarking OpenMandriva's AMD Ryzen Optimized Linux Distribution On The Threadripper 3970X  Phoronix

While Clear Linux is well known as being the performance-optimized Linux distribution out of Intel and catered towards performing the best on their hardware (though as we continue to show, Clear Linux does also perform incredibly well on AMD hardware too and generally faster than other distributions), when it comes to AMD-optimized distributions the primary example remains OpenMandriva. Since 2018 OpenMandriva has been providing an AMD Zen optimized build where their operating system and entire package archive is built with the "znver1" compiler optimizations. As it's been almost a year since last looking at OpenMandriva's Zen optimized build, here are some fresh benchmarks using the newly-released OpenMandriva 4.1.