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It's 2021 and the Linux kernel's floppy driver is still seeing the occasional patch – OSnews  OS News

The Linux Flaw you can’t afford to Ignore (CVE-2021-3156)  Security Boulevard

The GNU Network Utilities (inetutils) has seen its first major release in nine years or even the first release at all in six years since the prior point release. With GNU inetutils 2.0 are several updates to common programs like ping and ifconfig...

In addition to this week seeing Zink now running on NVIDIA's proprietary driver for supporting this Gallium3D-based OpenGL over Vulkan implementation, it can now run on top of Lavapipe as the CPU-based Vulkan implementation. But for end-users that is really something you would want to avoid...

After A Bumpy Cycle, AMD Performance Will Shine Brighter On Linux 5.11  Phoronix

For those following the saga of the AMD frequency invariance regression on Linux 5.11 since the Christmas investigative benchmarking looking at the performance regressions, everything now looks like it will be buttoned up in time for the Linux 5.11 stable release. As noted yesterday, there was a curve ball this week in that the patch proposed by SUSE's Giovanni Gherdovich in January to address the frequency invariance regression was turned down by the Linux power management maintainer and instead he (Rafael Wysocki of Intel) proposed an alternative patch that instead modified the CPUFreq driver. Given it's getting late into the cycle, it's been a mad rush of re-conducting benchmarks on this new kernel patch and now it looks like that solution will be sent in the coming days for Linux 5.11.

Goldman Sachs and Linux Foundation partner  Capacity Media

Update Chrome for Windows, Mac and Linux to protect against a dangerous zero-day vulnerability  BetaNews

The plan for Fedora 34 to improve font rendering by enabling HarfBuzz in FreeType was approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

Microsoft repo silently added to Raspberry Pi OS, folks begin the freak out  Windows Central

COVID-19 Outbreak- Global Linux Software Market 2020 analysis with Key Players, Applications, Trends and Forecasts by 2026 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

HOTKEYS CODE STOPPING KEYBOARD FROM WORKING - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Magma could be the Linux of 5G  Fudzilla

Intel sent out a news release on Thursday proclaiming their new 11th Gen H35 "Tiger Lake H" processors deliver the "fastest single-threaded laptop performance" thanks to the Core i7 11375H delivering up to 5GHz turbo frequencies...

Install SimpleScreenRecorder in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to record screen - Linux Shout  H2S Media

In the four previous articles in this series about home automation, I have discussed what Home Assistant is, why you may want local control, some of the communication protocols for smart home components, and how to install Home Assistant in a virtual machine (VM) using libvirt.

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In the previous articles in this series, I explained why tackling coding problems all at once, as if they were hordes of zombies, is a mistake. I'm using a helpful acronym explaining why it's better to approach problems incrementally. ZOMBIES stands for:

Z – Zero
O – One
M – Many (or more complex)
B – Boundary behaviors
I – Interface definition
E – Exercise exceptional behavior
S – Simple scenarios, simple solutions

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In the first and second articles of this series, I presented my review of Professor Lynda Gratton's book, The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here. Those articles outlined the factors Gratton says will impact work in the future and the work environments those forces will likely create for us.

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Stemming from the attention shined on the matter of uncertainty how long the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel will be maintained due to a current lack of committed support, stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman penned a new blog post outlining the (easy) process of testing new kernel release candidates and simply reporting the feedback...

It's Easy To Help Test Linux Kernel Stable Release Candidates  Phoronix