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Jonathan Carter who was initially elected as Debian Project Leader last year to succeed Sam Hartman has now been re-elected for another year serving in this role...

Released last week was the LuxCoreRender 2.5 open-source physically based renderer. Significant with this v2.5 update is OptiX/RTX acceleration support in addition to its existing CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU render paths. Given that, here are some fresh benchmarks of LuxCoreRender 2.5 across an assortment of NVIDIA graphics cards.

Who doesn't love a trip down memory lane? When recounting our career paths, they're often crooked and veer in unexpected directions. Many of us take pride in that. We trusted our intuition or a friend's advice and it led to experiences we'll never forget that shaped who we are today. And where we are today.

I asked our community of writers to share a little bit about what kind of jobs they had before they got into tech. Here are 13 of them you're sure to enjoy. 

(Click on their names to read their articles.)

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Linux Operating System Market to Witness Robust Expansion by 2027 | Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat  NeighborWebSJ

Can't reboot Kubuntu 20.04 with Nvida driver updates. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Zorin OS 16 looks great: the Linux distro that wants to appeal to Windows 10 and macOS users with as little friction as possible  Asap Land

How to Install Docker on Ubuntu Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install or Enable Cockpit on AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

If all goes well Linux 5.12 will be released tomorrow and in turn will kick off the Linux 5.13 merge window (otherwise 5.12-rc8 will be issued and the stable then a week later). In any case once the Linux 5.13 merge window does open there are a lot of prominent changes expected...

Purism Librem 14 Linux laptop is now shipping  Liliputing

Realtek has contributed support for the RTL8153 and RTL8156 Ethernet chipsets to their "r8152" USB network driver for the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle...

Realtek RTL8156 2.5G Chips + RTL8153 To Be Supported By Linux 5.13  Phoronix

Hitting the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" branch on Friday was the long in development WWAN subsystem/framework...

It's been another busy spring week in KDE land...

The restrictions on getting out and about during the pandemic occasionally remind me that time is slipping by—although some days, "slipping" doesn't quite feel like the right word. But it also reminds me there are more than a few tasks around the house that can be great for restoring the sense of accomplishment that so many of us have missed.

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Hyperbola Linux Review: Systemd-Free Arch With Linux-libre Kernel  It's FOSS

QUIC and HTTP/3 support is now appearing in Firefox Nightly and Beta build while it will begin its roll-out with the upcoming Firefox 88 stable release...

Linux Operating System Market 2021-2026 Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, and Growth Analysis by Leading Players  SoccerNurds

There still is much work left to be completed but Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has made its first baby steps towards ray-tracing support with Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA2" series hardware...

Let’s remember netbooks  The Verge