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Teams is now available on Linux as Microsoft's first Office Linux app  OS News

Under the planned time-line for transitioning to a Git workflow for the GNU Compiler Collection that was established back at the GNU Tools cauldron conference, 16 December was to be the cut-off for deciding which Git conversion program to use for translating their massive SVN repository into Git. That puts today as the deadline in order to meet their goal of switching over to Git at the start of 2020, but it looks like it could take several more days to decide their SVN-to-Git approach...

A Cloud Guru Announces Acquisition of Linux Academy  PR Web

NVIDIA's "VideoProcessingFramework" is an open-source set of C++ libraries that are wrapped around by Python bindings for interacting with their closed-source Video Codec SDK. The function of this framework is to make it easy to exploit GPU-accelerated video encode/decode from Python...

Google blocks some Linux web browsers from logging in  Mash Viral

Google reportedly blocking some Linux-specific web browsers from signing in to Google Account  9to5Google

Making Mir's XWayland support much more usable now is initial server-side decoration support in order to handle window resizing and window movements...

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week AMD launched the Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card as the sub-$200 Navi 14 graphics card in versions with either 4GB or 8GB of GDDR6 video memory. In our launch-day Radeon RX 5500 XT Linux testing the benchmarks of this budget 7nm graphics card was done using the 4GB review sample, but with Phoronix readers being curious about the 8GB version, I bought the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT GV-R55XTOC-8GD for some additional Linux testing. Here are those results.

Collabora Added H.264 and VP8 Decoding for Some Chromebooks in Linux Kernel 5.4  Softpedia News

Linux Foundation takes aim at NOS segment, opens up DENT  DevClass

Well, here is some interesting M+A activity a week ahead of Christmas... Intel just announced they are acquiring AI chipmaker start-up Habana Labs...

Philip Rebohle has released DXVK 1.5 as the newest version of this Direct3D-over-Vulkan implementation and is a big release considering last night's merging of D9VK / Direct3D 9 support...

As part of Fedora 32's bleeding-edge compiler toolchain with the likes of GCC 10 and LLVM 10, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved making use of GNU C Library 2.31. Glibc 2.31 will be out early next year with more features in tow...

Google is blocking some smaller Linux web browser from its services  The INQUIRER

Happy 10th birthday, TAILS -- the real Paranoid Linux!  Boing Boing

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X/3970X are incredibly fast and trounce the competition, but as noted on launch-day most (all?) Linux distributions have a boot issue with them over a machine check exception. There is an easy workaround to let these core-happy CPUs boot and run Linux while the proper fix was queued last week in ras/core in what looks like it will wait until Linux 5.6 for merging...

ManageEngine offer endpoint multi factor authentication  ChannelWorld.in

AMD Threadripper 3900 Series MCE Fix Queued In RAS/Core But Not Yet Mainlined  Phoronix

The Broadcom V3D Gallium3D driver within Mesa 20.0 now has initial support for geometry shaders as needed by OpenGL ES 3.2...