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Mageia 8 RC1 Brings AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1, NVIDIA GLVND, Linux 5.10 LTS  Phoronix

In addition to OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 nearing release, Mageia that shares a similar Mandrake/Mandriva lineage is nearing its next major release in the form of Mageia 8...

Impact of COVID-19 on Linux Operating System Market by 2027 |Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat, Inc  NeighborWebSJ

Linux Operating System Market, Growth Factor, Key Players,Trends and Forecast To 2027 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is aiming to debut before the end of March and there is good chances of that with the FreeBSD 13.0 release process so far being on schedule. With that, this weekend marks the availability of FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1...

How to Change Font Size in Grub Menu - Linux How-To and Tutorial Section  BleepingComputer

Download Mageia 8 RC1 Linux distro now  BetaNews

Debian 10.8 as the Linux distribution's latest quarterly update is now available ahead of Debian 11 expected later in the year...

LibreSOC remains the very ambitious project of creating a fully open-source hybrid CPU/GPU SoC but with a very uphill battle still in front of them...

Security researchers out of the University of Birmingham have crafted another attack against Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) when having physical motherboard access and using their "VoltPillager" hardware device they assembled for about $30 USD...

How install Atom code editor Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The seL4 micro-kernel that has been in development for over a decade saw the creation of the seL4 Foundation last year to further the project's goals. In 2020 the seL4 micro-kernel also added RISC-V as one of its primary CPU architectures...

While Plasma 5.21 isn't even out for a few more days, there is now a big reason to look forward to KDE's Plasma 5.22 release later in the year: KWin finally supports direct scan-out for full-screen games/apps!..

FOSDEM, the Free Open-Source Developer Europeans' Meeting, remains one of the top open-source/Linux events in my book. Each February for this long tenured event thousands of open-source/Linux enthusiasts would gather in Brussels, Belgium for many technical and interesting talks on a wide range of subjects. Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FOSDEM can only take place virtually this year but that does allow for broader participation and you can enjoy all of the content online this weekend...

FOSDEM Online 2021 Is Happening This Weekend  Phoronix

How to Install Signal on a Chromebook  Beebom

For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September...

EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro  Phoronix

Linux: Solus 4.2 brings a revised Budgie desktop  City Telegraph

While the AMDGPU back-end has been part of mainline LLVM for years, not until now has it supported an OpenMP toolchain for offloading to Radeon GPUs...