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Google announced today the accepted projects/students for this year's Google Summer of Code. While for GSoC 2021 Google trimmed the length of this summer coding initiative and also cut the stipend amounts, there ended up being still a good turnout for this year with some interesting projects to be attempted...

Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects  Phoronix

What’s New in Bodhi Linux 6? 4 New Updates to Look Out For  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenShot brings official Linux video editor to Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Linux 101: What's a tiling window manager?  TechRepublic

How to Download and Install Figma on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Virglrenderer that is part of the open-source Linux effort to provide accelerated OpenGL to guest virtual machines has been enjoying some new micro-optimizations...

Going along with the recent releases of FreeBSD 13.0, DragonFlyBSD 6.0, and OpenBSD 6.9, NetBSD 9.2 is now available as the latest feature release of this BSD operating system...

Linux Software Market: Size, Share, Analysis, Regional Outlook and Forecast 2021  Business-newsupdate.com

Fedora 35 is looking to replace the unmaintained SDL 1.2 packages with using the sdl12-compat compatibility layer for better handling of vintage Linux games by this upcoming distribution release...

Fedora 35 Aims For Better Experience Running Vintage Linux Games  Phoronix

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing

Firefly ROC-RK3566-PC: Another credit card-sized Linux PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor  Liliputing

deepin Linux 20.2.1 gets Debian 10.9 base — switch from Microsoft Windows 10 today!  BetaNews

Most: The Linux Pager You Never Knew You Needed  MUO - MakeUseOf

While we are sure to see only more AI accelerator drivers introduced to the Linux kernel over the coming years, the open-source driver situation for the Linux kernel is increasingly becoming a fragmented mess already and disagreements among kernel developers continue to be reignited over the mainlining process and the handling of these drivers...

The Growing Number Of AI Accelerator Drivers Reignites Linux Kernel Driver Debate  Phoronix

With the new dav1d 0.9 AV1 decoder release bringing AVX2 Assembly for higher bit depth videos, the performance improvements are very pronounced with modern Intel and AMD systems...

Making some rounds this weekend is the "Lima" project. No, not to be confused with the open-source Arm Mali reverse-engineered project of the same name, but rather an effort to be like an unofficial "macOS subsystem for Linux."..

Lima: Another Way Of Spinning Up Simple, Integrated Linux VMs on macOS  Phoronix