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Darktable 3.4 is out in time for dealing with any of your RAW holiday photos...

Rocky Linux: First release is coming in Q2 2021 say developers  ZDNet

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Key Players- IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  BIZNEWS

Hestia Installation on Ubuntu 20.04: An open-source Linux web server control panel  H2S Media

Hands-On: Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4  ZDNet

To those celebrating any year-end holidays, Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas. It's been a hell of a year and 2021 will hopefully be better. In any event even if not celebrating any end of year holidays or other events, there still is daily Phoronix content to come...

Beautiful open source text editors are pretty common these days, between Adobe’s Brackets, Microsoft’s VSCode, and GitHub’s Atom. Each of these seem to offer similar experiences: a modern interface, easily installable plugins, and a big brand-name sponsor. And they’re all actually really good. So what sets Atom apart from any other hyper-modern text editor?

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The Rust language is getting more and more popular, as the combination of memory safety and zero-cost abstractions makes it a good fit for handling many tasks.

In addition, frequent releases, consideration for development ergonomics, and high-quality documentation are leading more people to learn Rust.

Whether you're new to Rust or have been using it for a while, you'll learn something new in Opensource.com's top 10 articles about Rust in 2020.

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Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far  Phoronix

Look! I wrote a virtual reality (VR) server and published it on GitHub! But why?

Well, I'm your typical introverted hacker. I like to play with technology. Whenever something new comes out, I have to lay my hands on it and get them dirty. So, when I gifted myself Oculus Quest last year, I played a few games before I wanted to code something myself. And guess what? Everything is proprietary!

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The out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system has now been ported to the week-old Linux 5.10 kernel code-base. This also comes days ahead of the one year anniversary since the "Version 5" announcement...

Reiser4 Updated For Linux 5.10 Compatibility, Reiser5 Effort One Year Old  Phoronix

For those with extra time around the holidays, the first release candidate of LibreOffice 7.1 is now available for testing...

Server failure, Linux comprise 2020 data center management tips  TechTarget

Linux 5.11's Kconfig build configuration updates are bringing some long overdue improvements to its "Qconf" Qt toolkit user interface option for configuring Linux kernel builds...

Linux 5.11 Finally Flushes Out Its Qt4 Code For Configuring Kernel Builds UI  Phoronix

Lilbits: Snapdragon 888 is almost here, a 4K video editor that fits on a 1.44 MB floppy, and Linux phones are real PCs  Liliputing

Open Automation Software Platform now runs on Raspberry Pi  LinuxGizmos.com

How to Use GnuPG for Encryption on Linux  MakeUseOf

Last week the Linux 5.11 power management updates were merged while on Tuesday some additional new material was merged, primarily around Intel's P-State CPU frequency scaling governor when running with the "Schedutil" governor that makes use of the kernel's scheduler utilization data...