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We’re now in the third year of our The State of Enterprise Open Source report in which we probe the use of and attitudes about enterprise open source. This year we conducted interviews with 1,250 IT leaders worldwide. They weren’t necessarily Red Hat customers and were unaware that Red Hat was the sponsor of this survey, helping us to avoid biased or influenced responses.

While SDL2-enabled games/applications can already work on PipeWire-based systems like the forthcoming Fedora Workstation 34 thanks to the PulseAudio compatibility layer, the SDL2 library has merged initial support for interfacing with PipeWire...

6 days without electricity: What the inventor of Microsoft Windows-rival Linux did  Gadgets Now

6 days without electricity: What the inventor of Microsoft Windows-rival Linux did  Gadgets Now

Global Linux Software Market Analysis By Growth and Forecast 2025: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft etc. – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

Linux Mint May Resort to Windows 10-Style Forced Updates  WebProNews

Linux Mint May resort to Windows 10-Style Forced Updates  WebProNews

First Arch Linux ISO Release Powered by Linux Kernel 5.11 Is Here, Download Now  LXer

Compact Arm Linux gateway features ThingsBoard IoT software  LinuxGizmos.com

Working Windows and Linux Spectre exploits found on VirusTotal  BleepingComputer

Of the performance-related changes with Linux 5.12 worth noting is faster AES-NI XTS performance for systems relying upon return trampolines "Retpolines" as part of the CPU's Spectre V2 mitigations. On the Intel side this primarily impacts older CPUs where Retpolines is still used while on the AMD side through Zen 3 the Retpolines is still relied upon, which as shown by these benchmarks is now much better off for AMD Ryzen AES XTS performance as measured by Cryptsetup...

AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance Looking Good For AMD With Linux 5.12 Fix  Phoronix

Global Linux Software Market is Thriving According to New Report: Opportunities Rise For Stakeholders by 2026 – NY Market Reports  NY Market Reports

The 'Unix Way' Has a Right Way That's Almost a Lost Way  LinuxInsider.com

Working Linux exploit for Spectre flaw found by French researcher  iTWire

The Linux kernel source tree following the eventful 5.12 merge window is at 28.81 million lines in the source tree across more than sixty thousand files. The largest in-tree kernel driver continues to be the AMDGPU kernel driver, which in the next kernel release or so should be crossing three million lines...

Linux 5.12 Coming In At Around 28.8 Million Lines, AMDGPU Driver Closing In On 3 Million  Phoronix

Building off the recent DXVK 1.8 release is a new point release with more performance optimizations, game fixes, and related work to this Direct3D-on-Vulkan translation layer that is extremely popular with Linux gamers...

The Radeon ROCm open-source compute documentation has been updated to more clearly spell out what was already implied: their focus is on compute for headless, GUI-less workloads and not OpenCL or compute for conventional desktop applications...

How to Get Started Using Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf