FreeBSD Fridays: Introduction to RISC-V on FreeBSD
https://linuxreviews.org/FreeBSD_Fridays:_Introduction_to_RISC-V_on_FreeBSD
AMD Launches 3 High-End RX 6000-Series GPUs For 4k Gaming. The new GPUs are, according to #AMD, all capable of running games at 4k60fps at ultra settings. They will all have 16 GiB RAM and a 128 MiB cache. Prices range from $579 to $999. There is already some support for these cards in Linux 5.9 and Mesa 20.2.0. That support may or may not be close to feature-complete.
https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Launches_3_High-End_RX_6000-Series_GPUs_For_4k_Gaming
Prepare To Re-Format If You Are Using An Older XFS Filesystem, the v4 disk format will be deprecated and optional when #Linux 5.10 is released early December. There is a fair chance you're using a v5 layout if you made a #XFS filesystem after 2017 and there's a 100% chance you're XFS filesystem is using a now deprecated v4 layout if you created it prior to October 2016.
https://linuxreviews.org/Prepare_To_Re-Format_If_You_Are_Using_An_Older_XFS_Filesystem
Linux Is Dropping WiMAX Support. It's likely no loss, it's not like anyone's been using #WiMAX or the one WiMAX device from #Intel the #linux kernel supports the last decade.
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Is_Dropping_WiMAX_Support
AMD Announces Record High Q3 2020 Profits And $35 Billion Deal To Buy Xilinx. $2.8 billion in revenue and $390M in net income makes Q3 2020 #AMD's best quarter in history.
https://linuxreviews.org/AMD_Announces_Record_High_Q3_2020_Profits_And_$35_Billion_Deal_To_Buy_Xilinx
YouTube Is Purging Again.
https://linuxreviews.org/Corbett_Report:_YouTube_Is_Purging_Again
Node.js 15.0 Is Released. Support for the #QUIC protocol, a new AbortController class, a updated N-API with new methods for managing ArrayBuffers, #V8 updated to version 8.6 and #NPM updated to 7.0 are among the highlights in the latest Node.js framework.
https://linuxreviews.org/Node.js_15.0_Is_Released
Recording Industry Association of America Gets Youtube-dl Kicked Off GitHub. Their story is that youtube-dl is made with the specific purpose of downloading "unauthorized" copies of music made by their talentless members.
https://linuxreviews.org/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America_Gets_Youtube-dl_Kicked_Off_GitHub
Wine 5.20 Released With 36 Bug-Fixes. There's also several general fixes that make a long list of games run better in #Wine 5.20. Audio mixing and audio handling in general should be better with this release.
https://linuxreviews.org/Wine_5.20_Released_With_36_Bug-Fixes
Sensor Fusion Hub Driver For AMD Laptops With Gyroscopes Is Coming To Linux 5.11. It took almost a year and eight revisions before #AMD's SFH driver was finally approved for inclusion into the #Linux kernel.
https://linuxreviews.org/Sensor_Fusion_Hub_Driver_For_AMD_Laptops_With_Gyroscopes_Is_Coming_To_Linux_5.11
#Linux Support for Variable Refresh Rates On Gen12+ #Intel GPUs Is On The Way
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Support_for_Variable_Refresh_Rates_On_Gen12%2B_Intel_GPUs_Is_On_The_Way
MicroOS Desktop, The Road to Daily Driving: #openSUSE Chairman and MicroOS Release Engineer Richard Brown presented OpenSUSE's minimal #MicroOS #Linux distribution as a potential desktop OS at the openSUSE+LibreOffice Virtual Conference 2020 last week in a half an hour long presentation. MicroOS is a minimal Linux distribution primarily made for cloud services, IoT devices, containers, etc. It could potentially also be used as a light desktop system similar to ChromeOS.
https://linuxreviews.org/Richard_Brown:_MicroOS_Desktop,_The_Road_to_Daily_Driving
US Department Of Justice Lawsuit Against Google Could Kill Firefox. #Mozilla needs to find another partner willing to pay them $400 million per year to be the default search engine in #Firefox if #Google is forced to cancel it's contract with them.
https://linuxreviews.org/US_Department_Of_Justice_Lawsuit_Against_Google_Could_Kill_Firefox
Modern Web Standards Are Leaving Niche Web Browsers Behind. #microsoft #github is one of an increasing number of sites that don't work right in web browsers like #PaleMoon. This will only get worse as more #websites deploy modern #web "standards". Pale Moon is available for #Windows and #Linux.
https://linuxreviews.org/Modern_Web_Standards_Are_Leaving_Niche_Web_Browsers_Behind
The Closed-Source #NVIDIA #Linux Driver Is Incompatible With Linux 5.9 And Support Won't Come Until Mid-November. This may be due to an intentional kernel change that prevents non-GPL code to use symbols exported by #GPL licensed code.
https://linuxreviews.org/The_Closed-Source_NVIDIA_Linux_Driver_Is_Incompatible_With_Linux_5.9_And_Support_Won%27t_Come_Until_Mid-November
When "progress" is backwards: " Lately I see many developments in the linux FOSS world that sell themselves as progress, but are actually hugely annoying and counter-productive. "
https://linuxreviews.org/When_%22progress%22_is_backwards
#Microsoft #Edge For #Linux Is Here, Microsoft kept good on their promise to release it in October 2020. Edge does not look very unique, it's mostly just #Chromium wrapped in a Microsoft-skin. Performance is the same as other Chromium-based browsers.
https://linuxreviews.org/Microsoft_Edge_For_Linux_Is_Here
#Firefox 82 Is Released With Four High-Impact Security Fixes. It's faster on websites using flex #CSS layout, there's a new picture-in-picture button that you may or may not find annoying enough to disable and there's four high-impact #security fixes. There's no performance improvement in synthetic benchmarks.
https://linuxreviews.org/Firefox_82_Is_Released_With_Four_High-Impact_Security_Fixes
AMDVLK 2020.Q4.1 (#AMD's MIT-licensed #Vulkan Driver for #Linux) Is Released With A New Vulkan Extension And Three Game-Specific Fixes. Performance is still worse than what the #Mesa #RADV Linux distributions come with offers and it's much worse in some specific cases.
https://linuxreviews.org/AMDVLK_2020.Q4.1_Is_Released_With_A_New_Vulkan_Extension_And_Three_Game-Specific_Fixes
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