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MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2020 Global Analysis, Trends, Forecast up to 2026  Market Primes

Intel "Cannon Lake" processors were rare in the first place with being limited to the Core i3 8121U but given that no production SKU ever materialized with the "Gen10" graphics enabled, Intel's Linux engineers are finally moving ahead in eliminating the rest of the Cannon Lake / Gen10 graphics support code...

Debian 11 'Bullseye' Linux-based operating system release date officially revealed  BetaNews

Metadata and master data: OpenLineage moves into the sandbox of the Linux Foundation  Market Research Telecast

Computer scientist showcases world's first RISC-V-based Linux PC coupled with an AMD RX 6700 XT GPU  Notebookcheck.net

Linux file system SquashFS: For the birthday there are images from tar archives  Market Research Telecast

OSS+ELC show returns live with RISC-V, AI, Martian rovers, and 30 years of Tux  LinuxGizmos.com

The Debian release team has just announced their planned release date for Debian 11...

One of the low-level exciting kernel advancements being worked on at the moment is the new "folios" struct for improving Linux memory management. Tests by those involved found that in some conditions Linux kernel builds for example could be up to 7% faster. Given the recent folios v14 patches being published, I took them for a spin on an AMD EPYC server to see the impact on overall performance...

Use RDP on Linux mint to access Windows 11, 10 or 7 remotely  H2S Media

In addition to still working on moving from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 LTS for its base, Ubuntu Touch has also begun engaging in another important project: supporting Voice over LTE (VoLTE) with Ubuntu Touch...

Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

March Networks' New Linux-Based VMS Scales to Support 3000 IP Cameras on a Single Server  AiThority

Microsoft warns over this unusual malware that targets Windows and Linux  ZDNet

Systemd Vulnerability Could Risk Denial-of-Service Across Major Linux Systems  Cyber Security News

It's been a while since last looking at the performance of AMD's official "AMDVLK" open-source Linux Vulkan driver against that of the popular Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver. But here are some fresh benchmarks for those interested while using the latest-generation Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card paired with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel across testing both Vulkan drivers.

How to install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 20.04 or Linux Mint 20.2  H2S Media

Command to search for Linux package updates  Floridanewstimes.com

Another weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches were submitted on Thursday for going into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window. This drm-misc-next material continues to represent core Direct Rendering Manager changes as well as alterations/additions to the smaller DRM drivers...

The latest BPF functionality set to appear with Linux 5.15 this autumn is timers support...