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The Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux Notebook Gets Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs  Tom's Hardware

The Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux Notebook Gets Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs  Tom's Hardware

Steam Link app comes to Linux, joining Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi  FactsChronicle

How to visualize complex data on Linux  TechRadar

Linux Operating System Market Overview with Detailed Analysis, Competitive landscape, Forecast to 2025  AlgosOnline

For a number of years it has been known that the Btrfs RAID5 and RAID6 code is potentially unsafe and not nearly as mature as the native RAID support found in this Linux file-system for other levels. Finally now we are seeing the Btrfs user-space programs warn the user when attempting to create such Btrfs native RAID 5/6 configurations...

For those using Gallium3D Nine as a Direct3D 9 state tracker when running Windows games on Linux rather than the likes of DXVK for going through Vulkan, next quarter's Mesa 21.1 will better handle 32-bit games with the Nine state tracker...

Mesa 21.1 Addresses Issue Of Gallium Nine Often Hitting Memory Issues With 32-bit Games  Phoronix

While Linux 5.12-rc2 released on Friday due to that prominent corruption bug, there still is some Sunday kernel fun with Greg Kroah-Hartman releasing a slew of stable kernel updates including Linux 5.11.4 and 5.10.21 LTS...

Linux 5.11.4 Released With Some Prominent Fixes, Hardware Additions  Phoronix

With the exciting "HWCAPS" feature of Glibc 2.33+ allowing for optimized versions of libraries to be more easily deployed on Linux systems, diagnosing issues around it can be a bit more complicated but on the way for Glibc 2.34 is a welcome improvement to help in such issues...

Top 10 Best Linux Desktop Operating Systems 2021 – Bestgamingpro  Best gaming pro

Some families have a complex schedule: the kids have school and afterschool activities, you have important events you want to remember, everyone has multiple appointments, and so forth. While you can keep track of everything using your cellphone and an app, wouldn't it be better to have a large, low-power display at home to show your family's calendar? Meet the E Ink calendar!

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Over the years Google Summer of Code (GSoC) has resulted in some really great projects in the X.Org ecosystem from work in the early days on the open-source Radeon graphics driver stack to VKMS more recently to many other improvements especially as it pertains to open-source graphics drivers / Mesa. But for Google Summer of Code 2021 at least, the organization will not be participating...

SystemRescue 8.00 Released with Linux 5.10 LTS, Xfce 4.16, and Improved exFAT Support  LXer

With plans of formally releasing FreeBSD 13.0 at month's end, FreeBSD 13.0-RC1 is available this weekend and on-schedule for helping to test and evaluate this forthcoming major BSD operating system update...

KDE developers have been off to a busy March so far with working on adaptive panel opacity support for Plasma 5.22. Another pleasant improvement with that next Plasma release is to avoid rendering work when the screen is off...

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Growth, Segmentation Analysis by Application and Regions To 2026 | Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship – Breakout Live  Breakout Live

Released this week was Intel's open-source oneAPI Level Zero v1.2.3 for the headers and loader based on their public oneAPI Level Zero specification...

How to create your own database on Linux  TechRadar