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Lilbits: Open source keyboards, E Ink smartwatches, the fastest (least user friendly) PinePhone software  Liliputing

For months System76 has been teasing that they were getting into prototyping and manufacturing their own keyboards. This moves follows them manufacturing their own cases with the beautifully engineered Thelio line-up while now it looks like they are ready to go public with details on the System76 keyboard...

The AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 Performance Fix For Linux 5.11 Has Landed  Phoronix

Just in time for the expected Linux 5.11 stable release on Sunday, the AMD frequency invariance performance regression I've been noting and writing about since Christmas day has been resolved with the previously covered fix having been merged today...

The official release of FreeBSD 13.0 is coming up in March, while already from our preliminary tests of the newly minted FreeBSD 13.0 BETA1, the benchmark results are extremely tantalizing compared to FreeBSD 12.2... Ultimately the performance should be much more competitive now compared to Linux (at least on Intel x86_64) and other operating systems with the big FreeBSD 13 release.

IS "SAGEMCOM" DIRECTORY NORMAL FOR LINUX? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Raspberry Pi IoT In C Using Linux Drivers (I/O Press)  iProgrammer

Forget pricey Microsoft Windows 10 — the Ubuntu Linux-based Linspire 10 is cheaper  BetaNews

Top web hosting provider shuts down following cyberattack  TechRadar

Open source Linux debugging tool focuses on IPC  LinuxGizmos.com

While GRUB 2.06 was aiming for release in 2020, having to deal with the BootHole security issue among other challenges last year ended up delaying that release. Fortunately, it looks like this long awaited GRUB feature update should be out this year and there has been increased cooperation between upstream GRUB developers and distribution vendors...

GRUB 2.06 Should Be Released This Year, Cooperation Increasing With Distro Vendors  Phoronix

How to Use the ls Command in Linux  MakeUseOf

Developers: This is the one skill most likely to get you hired, according to IBM  ZDNet

Guardicore Unveils IPCDump, a New Open Source Tool for Tracing Interprocess Communication on Linux  Business Wire

How to install KDE Connect on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The best Linux VPN 2021  TechRadar

The best Linux VPN 2021  TechRadar

Announced nearly three years ago by Intel was the ACRN reference hypervisor framework intended for IoT/embedded use-cases with real-time capabilities and safety-critical computing. More of the kernel bits to this "Big Little Hypervisor for IoT Development" are set to see mainline with the imminent Linux 5.12 kernel cycle...

Vnc client or server that mimics touchscreen - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer