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Linux 5.13 Features From Apple M1 To New GPU Support, Security Additions  Phoronix

Following the two week merge window, feature development on the Linux 5.13 kernel is slated to end today with the release of Linux 5.13-rc1. Here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and improvements for this kernel that in turn should debut as stable around the end of June.

The Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) in cooperation with the Chinese openEuler Linux distribution have been working on their own project akin to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy for paying university-aged students to become involved in open-source software development...

Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026...

Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026  Phoronix

How To Change Linux Terminal Colors on the Fly  Tom's Hardware

Oracle engineers have continued working on the "Maple Tree" data structure for the Linux kernel as an RCU-safe, range-based B-tree designed to make efficient use of modern processor caches...

Oracle Continues Working On The Maple Tree For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 5.13 Brings Simplified Retpolines Handling  Phoronix

In addition to work like Linux 5.13 addressing some network overhead caused by Retpolines, this next kernel's return trampoline implementation itself is seeing a simplification...

Microsoft Weekly: Edge Beta for Linux, a new Segoe font, and games galore  Neowin

The Linux 5.13 kernel has initial support for dealing with SPI one-time programmable (OTP) flash memory regions...

Linux 5.13 Adds Support For SPI NOR One-Time Programmable Memory Regions  Phoronix

MX Linux 19.4가 출시되었습니다! (MX-19.4 now available!) – LATTICE80  LATTICE80

Riffing on the topic of what unusual jobs people had before tech, a few of our responses from the community were more focused on jobs that led to a job in tech.

These eight authors shared their experiences. Share yours in the comments.

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JingPad A1 Arm Linux 2-in-1 tablet can run Android apps (Crowdfunding)  CNX Software

This week happened to see new releases of two prominent open-source AV1 video encoders...

Linux Review Board: Researchers fails to insert buggy patches into kernel  Micky News

Should You Run Linux in a Virtual Machine or WSL?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Support for the Loongson 2K1000 is finally mainline with the forthcoming Linux 5.13 kernel...