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Alyssa Rosenzweig has continued her work reverse engineering and understanding Apple's M1 GPU with the ultimate goal of writing open-source OpenGL and Vulkan support for the Apple M1 GPU on Linux...

Early Gallium3D Work Has Begun Around Apple's M1 GPU With New "AGX" Driver  Phoronix

The OrangeFS open-source parallel file-system designed for cluster computing has a huge performance improvement to its read speeds with Linux 5.13...

OrangeFS Scores An "Extreme Performance Improvement" In Linux 5.13  Phoronix

The 10 Best Linux Server Distributions  MUO - MakeUseOf

Since the publishing of the provisional Vulkan Video specification last month, the only driver on Linux to have exposed any early Vulkan Video support is NVIDIA's Vulkan beta Linux driver. But it would appear that Intel's open-source developers are working at least towards eventually handling this video acceleration API...

Intel Proposes Calibrated Timestamps As It Works Towards Vulkan Video  Phoronix

As part of recent and upcoming new CPU benchmarks on Phoronix and other Linux hardware review testing, April saw more new and updated test profiles for expanding more workloads tested...

How to install Docker CE on Rocky Linux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

While PipeWire continues garnering interest this year for improving Linux sound in user-space, the kernel's sound drivers continue to be improved upon as well and tacking on support for new devices...

New Realtek Audio Support, VirtIO Sound Driver Ready To Play On Linux 5.13  Phoronix

Going back about a half-decade has been the Landlock Linux Security Module (LSM) as a means of allowing even unprivileged processes to create "powerful security" sandboxes. After a number of rounds of reviews and revisions over the year, Landlock has finally been mainlined for Linux 5.13!..

"Landlock" Lands In Linux 5.13 For Unprivileged Application Sandboxing  Phoronix

For those curious about the Steam on Linux gaming marketshare always as we begin a new month, Valve published their April 2021 figures overnight...

Steam on Linux Gaming Marketshare Steady For April  Phoronix

Blockchain Technology Market Global Analysis 2021-2028: The Linux Foundation, Chain Inc., Oracle Corporation, Fintech & Blockchain Software House, Bits, and Many More.  NeighborWebSJ

The lives we led before we arrived where we are now sometimes feel like a distant land full of memories we can't quite recall. And sometimes we have lived experiences that we'll just never forget. Many times those experiences teach us and help us appreciate where we are today. We may even wish for those days as we recount our past lives.

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Massive Growth of K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market by 2027 | Mac OS, Linux, iOS – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Top Company Profile: Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo etc. – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Open-source "Nouveau" driver developers have been working on at least partial support for OpenGL compute within the NV50 Gallium3D driver that is used by the NVIDIA GeForce 8 series through GeForce 300 series graphics cards...