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Last week saw FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 released as an "extra" build due to the fallout from the last minute WireGuard situation. Due to other bugs, FreeBSD 13.0-RC4 was issued today rather than going for the final release...

How Rocky Linux Aims to Fill the Gap Left by Red Hat's CentOS Setback  InfoQ.com

Mesa this quarter saw the release of Mesa 21.0 with many OpenGL and Vulkan improvements, a lot of work continues building up around the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation, Lavapipe continued advancing for software-based Vulkan, Intel and AMD continued with their stellar open-source hardware support, and performance optimizations in Mesa and lower down the stack are seemingly never-ending...

The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021  Phoronix

Trending Report on Linux Computer Market 2021-2026 Business Outlook, Critical Insight and Growth Strategy – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

Why I predict Chrome and Chrome OS will split with the roll out of version 94  Chrome Unboxed

NVIDIA has proposed a merge request to Mesa that would lay the infrastructure for allowing alternative GBM (Generic Buffer Manager) back-ends to be loaded, such as for NVIDIA's proprietary driver should it presumably implement GBM in the future...

Pi IoT In C Using Linux Drivers - GPIO Character Driver  iProgrammer

Patched Linux bugs nix Spectre mitigations | SC Media  SC Magazine

Associate Principal Engineer (Devops – Linux Resource ) - Contract (6 months) at The Focus Group  IT-Online

The 5 Best Business Process Management Courses on Coursera for 2021  Solutions Review

For those that happen to be running FSP/3Y-Power hot-swappable power supplies, a Linux driver is en route...

Linux 101: How to give users sudo privileges on Ubuntu and Red Hat-based Linux distributions  TechRepublic

Gaming on Linux? Here's How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Torvalds says Linux kernel 5.12 may 'need an RC8' due to size  Developer Tech

Best Economy Linux Hosting with cPanel in 2021 • Benzinga  Benzinga

Why Is Linux Hosting So Much More Popular Than Windows?  Nerd's Magazine

New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux Systems  The Hacker News

Intel's Clear Linux In 2021 Still Squeezing More Performance For Xeon Scalable  Phoronix

With Intel set to announce 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Ice Lake" CPUs next week, it's a good time for looking back to see how the Linux performance has evolved since the introduction of 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake" processors back in 2019. In this article is a look at the Xeon Platinum 8280 performance back at launch under both Ubuntu and Clear Linux compared to the current state of both distributions on the same hardware. There are also additional tests with those latest Linux images seeing how Ubuntu 21.04 is shaping up against Intel's own performance-optimized Clear Linux.