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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...

In addition to the Btrfs changes, EXT4, exFAT, and XFS are among the file-systems seeing noteworthy improvements with the in-development Linux 5.13...

EXT4, XFS & exFAT Enjoy Some Nice Improvements With Linux 5.13  Phoronix

Cyber Security Today, April 30, 2021 - A Linux alert, negligent executives and another warning to QNAP users  ITBusiness.ca

MITRE Adds MacOS, Linux, More Data Types to ATT&CK ...  Dark Reading

Lilbits: Using desktop apps on Linux phones, a new Asus Android tablet, and Microsoft Edge cross-platform tools  Liliputing

Linux-driven RISC-V module can plug into Raspberry Pi CM4 cluster carrier  LinuxGizmos.com

Latest Linux Operating System Market Research Report: Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2026 – SoccerNurds  SoccerNurds

As the first announcement of a newly-certified product by the Free Software Foundation since early 2020 as "Respect Your Freedom" compliant, the FSF is backing another 802.11n WiFi adapter...

How to set up a CrowdSec multi-server installation  Linux Journal

Linux Mint 18.x reaches end of life, upgrade now  Neowin

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance For April 2021  Phoronix

With recently receiving the rest of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" line-up we had no access to previously for testing, the past few weeks were busy with testing/re-testing these new graphics cards as well as prior GeForce RTX 20 series hardware and relevant AMD Radeon graphics cards for offering a current look at the 1440p and 4K Linux gaming performance.

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel  The Verge

Microsoft Acquires Flatcar Container Linux Developer Kinvolk GmbH  WinBuzzer