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You Can Now Download Stable Version Of Linux Mint 20.1 "Ulyssa"  Fossbytes

Implemented in Erlang, Apache CouchDB, simply referred to as CouchDB, is an open-source NoSQL database that focuses on data storage in JSON format. CouchDB is a perfect choice for operation teams and businesses looking

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It was just at the end of December that the Mesa 21.0 development code enabled OpenGL 3.2 support for Freedreno, the open-source Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics hardware. Now in time for Mesa 21.0 still, OpenGL 3.3 support has been achieved...

When we began contributing to the Kubernetes project at its inception in 2014, we believed the technology would be the future of cloud-native IT. But at that time, I don't think we realized just how impactful Kubernetes would be.

Q. What is being announced?

On January 7, 2021, Red Hat announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire StackRox. The acquisition is subject to certain customary closing conditions.

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Research 2020-2025: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs , Emerge as Top Market Growth Companies  Farming Sector

Global Linux Operating System Market 2025 Scope and Opportunities Analysis in Pandamic Crisis : IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux etc.  Farming Sector

Linux 5.10.5 LTS is out today with at least one rather interesting addition...

Linux 5.10.5 Released - It Disables FBCON Accelerated Scrolling  Phoronix

Cam-equipped dev kit runs Linux on NPU-equipped Allwinner V831  LinuxGizmos.com

Lilbits: Facebook smart glasses, GPD Win 3, and Linux smartphone news  Liliputing

Windows 10 WSL now can run Linux commands on startup  BleepingComputer

Introducing "Asahi Linux" which aims to work on Mac with Apple Silicon-Gigazine  Sprout Wired

A Look At The CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown  Phoronix

With this week marking three years since Spectre and Meltdown were made public in ushering in a wave of CPU security disclosures that followed and mitigations that often resulted in measurable performance hits, here is a look at how the performance costs stand today with various new and older Intel CPUs as well as AMD processors too. This article is looking at the current performance costs under Linux with the default mitigations and then the run-time disabling of the relevant mitigations for each of the processors under test while using an up-to-date Ubuntu 20.10 paired with the new Linux 5.10 LTS kernel.

Linux Systems Engineer  Gi Media

How to view stats on your Linux servers with Saidar  TechRepublic

AMD has begun staging their new open-source driver code ahead of the next AMDVLK driver release that will likely occur this week or next. With this latest AMDVLK code dump, there is easy run-time switching support between the AMDVLK and RADV Vulkan drivers...

C++ Developer Backend Linux Python  Gi Media

Released at the end of November was the much anticipated OpenZFS 2.0 open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. Today that has been succeeded by OpenZFS 2.0.1 with support for newer Linux kernels and many bug fixes...