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Wine 6.0 stable should be out this month but for now is another weekly release candidate of this open-source project that allows running Windows games/applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD platforms...

The Linux kernel has been seeing incredible innovations and optimizations in the I/O area in recent times from IO_uring to numerous performance enhancements. One of the recent performance enhancements seeing activity and promising results is the no-copy bvec behavior...

Linux No-Copy Bvec Patches Revved For The New Year As Another I/O Optimization  Phoronix

The latest OpenCL "Clover" work to land in Mesa 21.0 is support for the cl_khr_il_program extension...

How to Install and Play Among Us on a Chromebook  Beebom

For as great as Linux 5.11 is with its new features, there is also some prominent material that has yet to be upstreamed into the mainline kernel -- some of which is likely to hit in 2021 while other changes have less likely ambitions for mainline...

11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

How to Get Persistent SSH Connections in Linux Using Eternal Terminal  Tom's Hardware

ReactOS as the long work-in-progress open-source operating system implementation of Windows enjoyed much progress over the course of 2020...

While development on KDE (and other open-source projects too) was lighter this week as a result of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the KDE desktop still saw some refinements this week...

Garuda Linux "Serpent Eagle" Released With Dr460nized Gaming Edition  Fossbytes

How to Install Pop OS in Virtualbox Virtual Machine - Linux Shout  H2S Media

I have always been fascinated with the night sky. When I was younger, the only reference materials available were books, and they seemed to depict a sky that looked different from the one I saw from my home.

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Valve just published their Steam Survey numbers for December 2020 and it's a huge letdown for Linux gamers if the numbers are indeed accurate...

Valve's Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare  Phoronix

Is jExifToolGUI safe? And is it any good? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux 5.11 Gets New Framework To Help Avoid Burning Your Skin On Hot Devices  Phoronix

While the Linux 5.11 merge window has been over for one week where new features are normally added, a power management pull request sent in today for mainline is adding some tardy features including the Dynamic Thermal Power Management (DTPM) framework that in part is designed to help ensure users don't burn themselves with hot devices...

How to install KDE Plasma & Cinnamon on Pop OS Linux Desktop - Linux Shout  H2S Media

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 was released last February while now we are closing in on the release of OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 for that Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution...