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Since we are all about performance and numbers, here is a look at the 2021 statistics for OpenBenchmarking.org itself as the online complementary component to the Phoronix Test Suite...

Early in 2021 there was the inaugural release of LABWC as a stacking Wayland compositor that promoted itself as an alternative to Openbox. In kicking off the new year, LABWC 0.4 is now available...

KDE developers ended out 2021 with more Wayland session fixes coming for the Plasma 5.24 release. There was also nice user feature work like KIO-using applications such as Dolphin now properly dealing with non-user-owned locations...

I am privileged to be here at Opensource.com as the new community manager. I'm looking forward to working with existing correspondents and contributors, and also bringing in new contributors and increasing the diversity of thoughts and ideas shared here on Opensource.com.

My open source journey

I moved through several lifetimes before coming into tech and all have shaped me into who I am as a contributor to open source. Here are some of the most impactful experiences of my life so far:

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Recent Analysis on Linux Software Market 2021-2026 Top Trends, Business Opportunity, and Growth Strategy – Industrial IT  Industrial IT

It's now another year in the books and in just six months and a few days will mark 18 years since starting Phoronix.com and 14 years of developing the public, open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software...

Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021  Phoronix

Tired of Windows? It's time to give Linux a try.  Windows Central

Intel To Ring In 2022 With New, Faster AV1 Encoder Release  Phoronix

Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media continues developing SVT-AV1 as the flagship CPU-based AV1 video encoder. With the next SVT-AV1 update there are performance optimizations as well as several new preset levels allowing for even greater performance. Here are some early benchmarks of that updated SVT-AV1.

GNOME's libadwaita 1.0 has been released for this library implementing the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and complementary to the GTK toolkit...

Intel Alder Lake's Thread Director Support Coming to Linux  Tom's Hardware

Intel Alder Lake's Thread Director Support Coming to Linux  Tom's Hardware

Celebrate New Year 2022 by switching from Windows 11 to Linux Lite 5.8 RC1  BetaNews

Crowdfunded Astro Slide phone with slide-out keyboard, Linux support should ship in 2022  Liliputing

Trying to install VLC - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) should be a huge deal for Steam Deck based on its Linux performance  Windows Central

Thanks to Valve engineer Timur Kristóf and other open-source developers involved, Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is ending 2021 on a high note: mesh shaders was just merged!..

Today is the unfortunate day marking CentOS Linux 8 reaching end-of-life status as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8...

Install Plex Media Server on Debian 11 Bullseye with Nginx Reverse Proxy  Linux Shout