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Oracle Linux Looking To Attract CentOS Users Looking For Alternatives  Phoronix

In light of this week's major bombshell that CentOS 8 is being EOL'ed next year and CentOS focusing on "CentOS Stream" as the upstream to RHEL, Oracle is hoping at least some of those frustrated CentOS users will transition to Oracle Linux...

OpenBLAS 0.3.13 was released today as the newest update to this leading open-source BLAS (and LAPACK) implementation...

How to create encrypted partitions on Linux with GNOME Disks  Neowin

How to create encrypted partitions on Linux with GNOME Disks  Neowin

How to install Blender CAD software on MX linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Adding to the new features coming for Linux 5.11, the Intel "RFIM" driver has been queued up as the company's latest open-source driver. The RFIM driver tweaks the DDR memory rates and fully integrated voltage regulator stemming if believed to be causing WiFi/5G interference...

Intel's Newest Linux Driver Is For Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation  Phoronix

Last week there was the release of AOCC 2.3 as AMD's LLVM Clang downstream focused on Zen-optimized support. Meanwhile on the graphics side of the house, this week ushered in AOMP 11.12 as their LLVM Clang downstream focused on Radeon OpenMP GPU offloading...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary highlighting the desktop project's changes for the week. WebRTC support with the screencast code in Plasma now works on Wayland, but the Plasma Wayland changes are lighter than we've seen in recent weeks. Instead the emphasis this week seems to have been on enhancing KDE's usability...

Maple Tree "RFC" Patches Sent Out As New Data Structure To Help With Linux Performance  Phoronix

Announced earlier this year by Micron was the HSE open-source storage engine aimed for low-latency, speed-performance on modern SSD storage and ideal for powering the likes of NoSQL databases. In squeezing out one more major release before year's end, HSE 1.9 was released on Friday...

The GNU ed command is a line editor. It’s considered the standard Unix text editor because it was the very first text editor for Unix, and so it was (and generally still is) available on any POSIX system. In some ways, it’s easy to tell that it was the first because, in many ways, it’s extremely rudimentary. Unlike most other text editors, it doesn’t open in a window or screen of its own, and in fact, by default, it doesn’t even prompt the user for input. On the other hand, its near lack of any interface can also be a strength.

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Oracle Linux Looking To Attract CentOS Users Looking For Alternatives  Phoronix

Throughout much of 2020, virtual meetings have been a major part of our lives. This is new for many of us—while we may have participated in webinars or other virtual meetings on occasion, we have never relied on our webcams for doing our day-to-day work.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is playable on Linux right now, but it's not the best  TweakTown

For over the past year there has been work on the new "Maple Tree" data structure led by Oracle for the Linux kernel and this week marked the patches being sent out in "request for comments" (RFC) form with the aim still on helping the kernel performance...

Garuda Linux Review: Pure Arch With GUI Tools and Good Looks  It's FOSS

IT System Administrator (Linux & NextCloud) (f/m/d)  Nature.com

Embedded Linux Market 2020: Industry Growth, Competitive Analysis, Future Prospe  News.MarketSizeForecasters.com