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In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way...

The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window...

OpenRISC + RISC-V Improvements Come For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Following last week's release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets...

The ACPI / power management and thermal pull requests were all sent out and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 5.11 development...

Intel Workload Hints, Zen RAPL PowerCap + Other Power/Thermal Changes For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Global Market Growth, Size, Supply, Outlook, Regional Trends and 2027  Fresno Observer

IAR Systems Enables Linux-Based Continuous Integration and Automated Workflows for RISC-V  AiThority

Global Linux Operating System Market Insights on Trends, Application, Types and Users Analysis 2020-2026  LionLowdown

How to install Spotify client on Kali Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It's been seven years since Intel last provided a stable release of their "xf86-video-intel" X.Org driver and nearly six years to the day since they even provided their last development snapshot of what was to be xf86-video-intel 3.0. But there still are the occasional commits to this Intel DDX driver such as this week enabling the "TearFree" functionality by default...

DevOps teams dig in their heels for strength as they face stress and challenges at work and home. It’s not something covered in the DevOps manifesto. There’s also no software you can integrate into your toolchain to help either. What needs to happen is your DevOps teams need to put empathy before tools.

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Some text editors are designed for programming, others for specialized text formats, others for document design. The Norka text editor is designed for reading. It might seem strange to create a text editor designed for reading, but actually, it makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Your text is written once or thrice, depending on your personal tolerance for iteration, but it’s meant to be read for years to come. Norka makes it easy for you to focus on how your writing is going to get read.

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Tried: BlockArch Linux as a Comprehensive Navigation Test Toolkit  haveeruonline

The annual report of the Linux Foundation summarizes 2020 in an 'open source' key | Tech | December 18, 2020  Explica

What IP is a graphical-based simple network information tool which provides information about IP address and listening ports. It is written in Python and GTK3. It is released under GPL3 license and the source

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Kent Overstreet who developed the Bcachefs file-system out of the Linux kernel's block cache code has sent out the latest patches for review and to also serve as a possible pull request for mainlining the code...

Bcachefs Under Review With All Known Blockers Resolved  Phoronix

Linux-based Continuous Integration and automated workflows for RISC-V  New Electronics

For the past several months we've seen Intel Key Locker support being worked on for Linux as a new feature coming to future processors for better securing AES keys. That initial Key Locker support was initially focused on the open-source compilers with the new instructions while now the Linux kernel patches have been published in preliminary form...