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OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Released For This Linux Distro Built By The Clang Compiler  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Set for Healthy Growth after COVID19 Pandemic – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Proton 5.13-6 is out in time for the weekend Linux gamer in providing the latest functionality for this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Linux distribution now available for PC, Raspberry Pi, and more  BetaNews

Google proposes way for Fuchsia OS to run Android and Linux programs ‘natively’  9to5Google

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend with some wine... Wine 6.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot for running Windows games and applications on Linux/macOS...

How to install Snap Store GUI on CentOS 7 or 8 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Over the past year there has been much chatter about Enterprise Linux Next within the Fedora camp and now this special interest group (SIG) is finally getting underway...

Fedora's "Enterprise Linux Next" Taking Flight To Experiment With Next-Gen RHEL Changes  Phoronix

The Origin of Linux and Reasons to use Linux  Technotification

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Now with the CPUFreq fix landing this week in Linux Git, the mainline Linux 5.11 kernel in its near final state is looking in very good shape for AMD Zen 2/3 hardware from Ryzen laptops and desktops through EPYC servers. The Linux 5.11 development kernel was regressed for the better part of the past two months but now that the frequency invariance regression is addressed, not only is the regression gone but generally is performing much better compared to prior kernel versions.

AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

AMD is looking to hire more Linux engineers  TechRadar

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market 2021 Strategic Assessments – Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper  KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper

Linux 5.11 stable is expected to be released on Sunday barring any second thoughts by Linus Torvalds that could lead to an eighth weekly release candidate that would in turn push the official release back by one week. In any case, Linux 5.11 will be formally out soon and it's an exciting one on the feature front...

The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots For AMD + Intel This Cycle  Phoronix

AMD looking for Linux help  Fudzilla

With Linux 5.11 there is open-source Nouveau KMS support for Ampere GPUs -- just kernel mode-setting without any form of 3D acceleration. The actual hardware acceleration requires more work and also NVIDIA to release the necessary signed firmware binaries. With Linux 5.12 there still is no 3D acceleration but a big set of patches was merged as a step in that direction...

SageTea Announces the Release of XFone - a Powerful Computer Packed in a Smartphone  Benzinga