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Along with releasing Plasma 5.23 Beta this week, KDE developers have been busy on driving in a bunch of Plasma Wayland fixes and other refinements to their stack...

Friday: Ban on lateral thinkers, quantum trump, Linux anniversary, solar stones & fax-off  Market Research Telecast

The Crawford County Federated Library System has been using Linux and open source software in its IT operations since 1999. They realized early on the potential of open source and integrated it into their enterprise. They were a part of my own Linux journey as I built a content filtering system for our school district. Twenty years ago, there were few models for the use of open source in libraries and education. Meadville Public Library and the Crawford County Federated Library System were the leaders then and now.

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#TGIQF - The quiz about the 30th Linux birthday  Market Research Telecast

Yes, of course there's now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux  The Register

Microsoft to Azure Linux users: Patch this problem yourself  Windows Central

One of the areas where Linux has struggled on the desktop has been around HDR (high dynamic range) display support while that will hopefully be addressed in the coming months with Red Hat hiring an engineer to focus on that problem...

Developers are hoping for next year's GCC 12 release they will have Apple AArch64 support on Darwin in place for being able to support Apple Silicon -- initially the M1 SoC -- on macOS with GCC...

Someone Made Ubuntu Look Just Like Windows 11  Tom's Hardware

Longtime Mesa developer Karol Herbst who has worked extensively on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver as well as the OpenCL/compute stack while being employed by Red Hat is now toying with the idea of Rust code inside Mesa...

The Best Linux Gaming Laptop? Juno Neptune 15 Review  Forbes

The Best Linux Gaming Laptop? Juno Neptune 15 Review  Forbes

Hackers Alter Cobalt Strike Beacon to Target Linux Environments | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

The unplanned Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS release is available today that was made on short notice for addressing unbootable media with Ubuntu 18.04.5...

1. 2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop  PCMag
2. How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag AU
3. How to Run Android Apps in Linux Without an Emulator  Beebom
4. 2021 Is the Year of Linux on Desktop — Here's Why  Flipboard
5. Someone Made Ubuntu Look Just Like Windows 11  Tom's Hardware
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2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop  PCMag

Researchers Find Malware Hiding in Windows Subsystem for Linux  Tom's Hardware

Azure Linux admins urged to patch four zero-day OMI vulnerabilities  IT World Canada

Pay What You Want and get this Linux eBook Bundle by Packt  Neowin

Along with bringing up DG2/Alchemist graphics card support on Linux, Intel engineers have been working to square away their support for the DG1 developer graphics card. This week thanks to XDC2021 is a fresh status update about what is working with this initial Intel graphics card on their open-source driver and what remains in the works...