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Given this week's release of Fedora 35 Beta I have begun my benchmarking to look at how this next installment of Fedora Linux is shaping up given that it tends to be at the forefront of open-source innovations given Red Hat's investments. For our initial F35 benchmarking is looking at the Fedora Server 35 Beta performance compared to Fedora 35 on a dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 server.

LLVM 13.0 was tagged overnight as the latest half-year update to this widely-used, very powerful open-source compiler stack...

The first release candidate of the forthcoming PoCL 1.8 "Portable Computing Language" implementation is now available for testing...

The best VPN for Linux for 2021  Digital Trends

Arm engineers have begun landing their Armv9 enablement work in the GNU compiler toolchain...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size 2021-2028 And Growth, Analysis By Top Manufacturers | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice) – Bulk Solids Handling  Bulk Solids Handling

SimulaOS, a Linux distribution excited by making use of digital truth to our day-to-day workplace paintings  TheNewsTrace

Valve published new versions of Proton and Proton Experimental last night...

Linux Mint 20.3 due by Christmas and project's website receives a fresh look  Neowin

Computer programming, also known as coding for short, is not about which language you use. It's about developing programming logic and learning to think like a programmer. The language you start with should be the one that helps you the most in this endeavor. So you have to ask yourself the question: "What do you want to do as a programmer?"

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The Apache web server is highly customizable and can be configured in multiple ways to suit your needs. There are many third-party modules that you can use to configure Apache to your preference. ModSecurity

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Blockchain Technology Market 2021 Precise Outlook- VironIT, The Linux Foundation, IBM Corporation, Altoros – Bulk Solids Handling  Bulk Solids Handling

Red Hat Developer has published Quarkus for Spring Developers, a comprehensive e-book introducing Quarkus to Java developers, with a focus on helping people familiar with Spring make the transition. Learn more!

That's a wrap for September with 229 original news articles and another 13 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. It was another eventful month with Linux 5.15 moving forward, a lot of driver activity by AMD and Intel, and other open-source milestones like the release of GNOME 41 and the shipping of the Ubuntu 21.10 and Fedora 35 beta releases...

Fedora Linux declared a 'digital public good'  Network World

The 4 Invaluable Benefits of Switching to Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install the Nessus vulnerability scanner on Rocky Linux  TechRepublic

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are evaluating possible improvements to the Linux kernel for accommodating CPU and GPU synchronized priority scheduling...

Intel Exploring CPU+GPU Synchronized Priority Scheduling For Linux  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 5.15 adding a new AMD audio driver for "Van Gogh" APUs such as found in the forthcoming Steam Deck, AMD's open-source Linux driver engineers have also been working on other audio improvements -- this time on the Chromebook front...