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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

How to Change Process Priority in Linux With nice and renice  MUO - MakeUseOf

Containerization Software Market is Going to Boom | Apache, Docker, Linux – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

The Rust-written Cloud-Hypervisor project led by open-source Intel engineers as a VMM designed for cloud workloads has broke well past the "1.0" milestone. Following a series of 0.x releases, Cloud-Hypervisor 15 was released this week...

Cyber Security Today, April 30, 2021 - A Linux alert, negligent executives and another warning to QNAP users  IT World Canada

Along with this week's release of QEMU 6.0, exciting on the Linux virtualization front are the KVM changes that are ready to go with the 5.13 kernel...

KVM With Linux 5.13 Has AMD SEV Improvements, Intel SGX For Guests  Phoronix

One of the areas of Linux desktop display support that isn't as well supported compared to Windows is high dynamic range (HDR) displays. There have been various vendors and developers over the years working towards Linux desktop HDR improvements but still it hasn't been a fast-advancing area in the open-source ecosystem. At least now AMD Radeon graphics driver developers do appear to be working on HDR improvements...

AMD GPU Driver Developers Pursuing New HDR Display Work For Linux  Phoronix

Now that Clang LTO support landed in Linux 5.12 and cleared the blocker on CFI support, that LLVM Clang control-flow integrity (CFI) capability is now upstream for Linux 5.13...

Clang CFI Support Upstreamed For Linux 5.13 - But Only On ARM64 For Now  Phoronix

It was just earlier this month that FreeBSD 13.0 released while already GhostBSD has issued a new release of this desktop-oriented operating system re-based against the new FreeBSD 13.0 base...

Global Linux Operating System Market Insight, Present Scenario & Growth Prospect Till 2028: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro – SoccerNurds  SoccerNurds

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

Manuel Sabban  Linux Journal