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Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on providing a fully open-source BIOS/firmware replacement without any black boxes / binary blobs is out with a new release. The prior tagged release of Libreboot was all the way back in 2016 while has now been succeeded by a new release albeit in testing form...

Java was released in 1995, making it 26 years old as I'm writing this. It was proprietary at first, but in 2007, Java was released as open source under the GPL. To understand what makes Java important, you have to understand the problem it claims to solve. Then you can understand why and how it benefits developers and users.

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With CentOS Stream to be the upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux moving forward, a CentOS special interest group is being formed that is driven by Red Hat stakeholders in helping to ensure technically interesting CentOS Stream changes made by community members are evaluated and primed for inclusion into future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases...

5 Ways to Safely Download Software on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

What Are Shell Builtin Commands and How to Identify Them?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Install Debian 11 Bullseye on Docker CE to test it - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Research on Linux Operating System Market 2020: By Growing Rate, Type, Applica  Business-newsupdate.com

It's sounding like a vendor is readying to publish a "big" new open-source driver, likely a GPU driver, for the Linux kernel...

GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" are in the process of being updated around the GTK4 tool-kit and new components like libadwaita and libhandy...

IoT and Blockchain Market Worth Observing Growth | The Linux Foundation, Filament, KrypC – Brockville Observer  Brockville Observer

There continues a lot of work going into Virgl for 3D guest acceleration with the open-source Linux virtualization stack as well as most recently Vulkan driver activity. However, much of that work driven by Google these days is focused on Chrome OS with "Crosvm" rather than the venerable QEMU...

VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly  Phoronix

A security module continues to be worked on for being able to detect and mitigate against fork/execute brute force attacks to Linux systems...

Fork Brute Force Attack Detection/Mitigation Still Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Following the introduction of KHamburgerMenu, the latest KDE user-interface element being introduced is KCommandBar for expert-focused, HUD-style pop-ups...

Install Debian 11 Bullseye on VirtualBox - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It's been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux, way back in 1991, as a free alternative to Unix. In that time, it's grown from a niche project to a powerful, widely used operating system that sustains much of what's essential in modern computing—the cloud, the Internet of Things, supercomputers, the devices that kept students learning during a global pandemic, and much, much more.

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This could be the most powerful Linux laptop yet  Techradar

This could be the most powerful Linux laptop yet  TechRadar

Current Scenario of Linux Operating System Market to Provide Lucrative Opportunities with Leading Players Analysis – Brockville Observer  Brockville Observer