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Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Linux-Firmware Adds Updated Binary For Fixing Performance With RX 5600 XT vBIOS Update  Phoronix

Rav1e v0.2 brought 40~70% speed improvements over its previous release for this Rustlang-based AV1 video encoder but the upcoming Rav1e 0.3 will be even faster...

Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G Is A Great Intel Workstation Motherboard For Linux/BSD Systems Review  Phoronix

For those building an Intel Core X-series system, the Gigabyte X299X DESIGNARE 10G is the board we have been relying upon for our Cascadelake-X testing over the past two months and it has continued working out phenomenally for being a feature-rich platform while playing nicely with the various Linux distributions and BSDs tested.

Siemens continues investing in Jailhouse as a Linux-based simplicity-minded partitioning hypervisor catering to bare metal appliances. Jailhouse 0.12 is out today as their first feature update since last summer and comes with numerous hardware support improvements and new features...

Linux and macOS PCs hit by serious Sudo vulnerability  TechRadar

Raspberry Pi rival: Linux PinePhone maker reveals its new board  ZDNet

While the standard is now two decades old and has yet to unseat the JPEG image standard in popularity, there is renewed interest in JPEG2000 with High Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) and finally seeing increased software support. Collabora's Aaron Boxer thinks that JPEG2000 could finally be going mainstream...

Major Japanese hardware vendor joins Open Invention Network  ZDNet

SCaLE 18X Linux Expo March 5-8th 2020  Geeky Gadgets

There had been a proposal to better compress the Fedora 32 install media via SquashFS without the nested EXT4 file-system setup for its live images and also ramping up the XZ compression. But this proposal was rejected at yesterday's engineering meeting on the basis that a more optimal compression path could be utilized...

Switching from Windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux is very easy, so why is Canonical making it seem so hard?  BetaNews

The seL4 micro-kernel that is focused on delivering robust security and performance is being ported to the RISC-V architecture...

Following last week's release of Linux 5.5, Con Kolivas is out today with his latest "CK" patch-set and MuQSS scheduler for this new kernel version...

Not yet mainlined but there is a Git repository offering up a Wine Wayland driver implementation for letting Windows applications/games run atop a Wayland compositor without any dependence on X11/XWayland...

Linux Still Not a Threat to Windows 10's Home Domination  Softpedia News

Tecmint is proud to announce the release of the much-awaited RedHat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation exam guide (EX407). This is a new certification program by RedHat that aims at testing your skills in...

How to build a Linux Resolve system the easy way  RedShark News

In this Python series of articles, we will be looking at what is a data structure and python built-in data structure. Part 1: Python Data Structure – List Part 2: Python Data Structure –...