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KDE developer Roman Gilg continues pushing ahead with KWinFT as a fork of the KWin window manager / compositor and other select components. He spent a lot of time last year better optimizing the X11 and Wayland handling while he's been relentlessly working this year to push it even further...

Open source "vaccine passports:" Linux Foundation Public Health talks development, security, and digitally restoring trust  TechRepublic

At last month's Linux.Conf.Au virtual conference was a presentation by Google engineer Nick Desaulniers on the current state of building the Linux kernel with LLVM Clang as an alternative to GCC...

Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued  Phoronix

Building The Linux Kernel With Clang Continues To Be Useful, New Features Pursued  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2021: Qualitative and Quantitative research | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  NeighborWebSJ

Mozilla has been sponsoring the Rust programming language for more than a decade while in 2020 as part of Mozilla's big round of layoffs most of the Rust team was let go along with dropping the Servo web engine team. Following that plans were drafted to create the Rust Foundation as an independent entity...

Best Virtual machines for Windows 10 to run Linux  H2S Media

AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs. NVIDIA RTX 30 Linux Performance Heating Up  Phoronix

Given the open-source Radeon driver progress for RDNA2 over the past three months since the Radeon RX 6800 series were launched, here is a look at how the Radeon RX 6800 series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series is currently competing on Linux when using the latest Linux drivers from the respective vendors.

Linux 5.11 could arrive next week, as Linus Torvalds slams the Superbowl  TechRadar

Hitting Mesa 21.1 this morning is a scheduler implementation for Panfrost Gallium3D, the open-source Arm Mali graphics driver...

Valheim - How to Easily Setup a Dedicated Server  Attack of the Fanboy

Where Will the Penguin March From Here?  TechNewsWorld

Google Warns of Chrome Zero-Day on Windows, Mac, and Linux  WinBuzzer

Intel PXP -- Protected Xe Path -- is a means of hardware-protected sessions for graphics clients on Gen12 / Xe Graphics. The support code for enabling PXP with their open-source Linux driver stack was updated this past week...

It's rare to hear of OpenOffice usage these days compared to LibreOffice, but the open-source office suite is still going ahead under its volunteer work at the Apache Software Foundation. This past weekend at FOSDEM 2021 was a status update on Apache OpenOffice...

AMDVLK 2021.Q1.3 is out this morning as the latest snapshot of the official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems that is derived from their shared platform driver sources...

Linux-based Raspberry Pi OS is secretly installing a Microsoft repo  BetaNews

Jolla's Sailfish OS 4.0.1 was released this past week to early access subscribers as a major milestone for Sailfish OS 4...