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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...

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)...