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SGI systems going back to the SGI Origin servers starting some two decades ago will see better mainline kernel support with the upcoming Linux 5.4...

Intel's "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has now hooked into the DriConf infrastructure for handling driver tunables and workarounds...

NVIDIA on Friday released their 435.19.03 Vulkan beta driver as their newest Linux driver update. This Vulkan beta doesn't come with any new extensions this go around but does have some DXVK fixes for helping Linux gamers...

We are approaching the one year anniversary since the Haiku R1 Beta and the developers working on this open-source BeOS-inspired operating system are as busy as ever with improvements...

Draw.io is a free Flowchart and diagram creation software for Windows, Linux, macOS and your browser  Ghacks Technology News

Flowcharts are incredibly useful diagrams to explain process flows. Remember the phishing flow chart that Martin created in 2011? Or the flowchart about ...

Linux Fu: Interactive SSH Applications  Hackaday

[Drew DeVault] recently wrote up some interesting instructions on how to package up interactive text-based Linux commands for users to access via ssh. At first ...

To Witness Massive Growth & Future Prospects By 2025 : Linux Software Market  OnYourDesks

HTF MI recently introduced Linux Software Market study with in-depth overview, describing about the Product / Industry Scope and elaborates market outlook ...

Microsoft releases Windows 10 20H1 Build 18975 with Cortana and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) improvements  BetaNews

Work continues apace on the next major Windows 10 update due out next spring. Recent preview releases have all introduced big improvements, and today's ...

Microsoft hosts first Windows Subsystem for Linux conference  ZDNet

Microsoft will be hosting a community conference on the Windows Subsystem for Linux and related technologies in March 2020.

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver crew has been on an exciting spree lately of not only punctually enabling new hardware support but also pushing some big performance improvements for new and existing generations of graphics hardware. Today another performance achievement was unlocked...

2-Minute Linux Tip: The env command  Network World

When working in shell sessions on Linux, it is sometimes necessary to investigate the settings for that particular environment, and the env command can help ...

New OSGeoLive Release Opens Doors to Geospatial Worlds  LinuxInsider.com

If you ever have considered investigating or working with elements of the geospatial world, check out the latest edition of OSGeoLive, a Linux distribution that ...

WireGuard 0.0.20190905 was released on Thursday by lead developer Jason Donenfeld...

WireGuard Releases New Snapshot While Not Expected For Linux 5.4 Mainline  Phoronix

WireGuard 0.0.20190905 was released on Thursday by lead developer Jason Donenfeld. WireGuard 0.0.20190905 is the newest snapshot for this secure VPN ...

Firefox 69 / 70 Beta Against Chrome 76 On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some *fresh* web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu ...

With Firefox 69 released and Firefox 70 entering beta, here are some fresh web browser benchmarks between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome from Ubuntu Linux. On the Firefox size, Firefox 68, 69, and 70 Beta were tested with and without WebRender being enabled and compared to Google's current Chrome 76 stable release.

Linux-based AI Camera Announced By Microsoft  Fossbytes

A Linux-based AI camera using the Microsoft Azure *service* has been officially announced. Microsoft made the announcement of the $249 "Vision AI Developer ...

GNU Wget2 is a from scratch rewrite of the popular wget downloading utility. GNU Wget2 wraps around the libwget library while now being multi-threaded and supporting other features to provide better performance over the current wget releases...

Since June Intel's open-source developers have begun volleying the initial open-source graphics driver code for Tigerlake "Gen12" hardware. To date the Gen12 changes haven't been too invasive even with this being the first generation with the "Xe Graphics" engine branding. But that's now changed with a new patch series showing major changes to the graphics instruction set...

PinePhone Linux phone prototypes to ship to developers this month  SlashGear

It seems that the dreams of an open source Linux phone are starting to pick up steam again. Purism has just announced its batched schedule of Librem 5 ...