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Ubuntu-based elementary OS 6 'Odin' Beta Linux distro now available for download  BetaNews

Crowdfunding campaign to launch JingPad A1 Linux tablet now live  Goodereader

Crowdfunding campaign to launch JingPad A1 Linux tablet now live  Good E-Reader

How to Configure the Firewall in Ubuntu With UFW  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Configure the Firewall in Ubuntu With UFW  MUO - MakeUseOf

As part of AMD's growing HPC focus and maturing of their Radeon Open eCosystem GPU compute stack, they ended out this week by making public a prototype implementation of CRIU support for ROCm...

While the popularity of Solaris may be waning, OpenIndiana continues ticking in 2021 as the open-source platform based on Illumos that was born out of the former OpenSolaris state...

Fedora Vs Red Hat: Which Linux Distro Should You Use And Why?  It's FOSS

The first release candidate of Rocky Linux 8.3 is out, the project's inaugural release as a new binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)...

Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Released For This New RHEL Alternative  Phoronix

VMware has no plans to support Windows 10 on M1 Macs — Windows is second priority behind Linux  BetaNews

The media subsystem updates were sent out this week for the Linux 5.13 merge window and already merged. A notable driver addition this time around is for NXP i.MX8 users...

Linux 5.13 Tacks On A JPEG Encoder/Decoder Driver For The i.MX8  Phoronix

University of Virginia and University of California San Diego researchers have discovered multiple new variants of Spectre attacks that are not protected by existing Spectre mitigations and could yield both Intel and AMD CPUs leaking data via micro-op caches...

The past month was quite exciting in the Linux/open-source world with Linux 5.12 having been released and 5.13 off to a great start, shiny new hardware for benchmarking, and also the drama around the FSF and UMN's "hypocrite commits" research...

Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April  Phoronix

KDE developers certainly closed out April on a high note with some big ticket additions...

The University of Minnesota Banned by Linux – Why Open Source is Problematic  Electropages

In my last week of high school in 1996, I quit my job at Carl's Jr. because I thought maybe without school, I'd have time to learn enough skills to get hired at a PC shop or something. I didn't know that I actually had incredibly marketable skills as a Linux sysadmin and C programmer, because I was the only tech person I'd ever known (except the people I chatted with on Undernet's #LinuxHelp channel).

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Following the recent FreeBSD 13.0 release and jumping ahead of the imminent DragonFlyBSD 6.0 release is now OpenBSD 6.9 to kick off May...