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Following last week's Wine 6.0-RC1 release that marked the feature freeze and start of the release process for the annual stable Wine release, Wine 6.0-RC2 is out today with the latest assortment of fixes...

Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list  Ars Technica

Just one week shy of one year since CUPS founder Michael Sweet left Apple, which in turn seemingly led to the downfall of CUPS, PAPPL 1.0 has been released as his modern alternative printer application framework...

Global Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Forecast to 2026 by Recent Trends, Development and Regional Growth Overview  International Debt Observatory

Goodbye CentOS, hello Rocky Linux  ZDNet

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance: Windows Looks Surprisingly Good This Time  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance: Windows Looks Surprisingly Good This Time  Phoronix

For those curious how the AMD Zen 3 performance is looking between Windows and Linux, here are the first round of benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system.

KDE Plasma users will hopefully be seeing the KWin Wayland compositor perform better and more reliably in 2021...

Some Of The Features You Can Expect To See With Linux 5.11: Lots From AMD, Intel  Phoronix

The Linux 5.10 kernel is expected to be released this Sunday that will in turn start the Linux 5.11 merge window. Based on the material queued so far into the various "-next" branches, here is a look at what should be on the table for this next major kernel release and come February will be the first major kernel release of 2021...

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While working on some core Mesa cleaning/improvements, Eric Anholt has retired the classic OSMesa support in next quarter's Mesa 21.0...

Following the recent OpenZFS 2.0 release, a new feature that has landed in the latest OpenZFS development code is the ability to respond to CPU and memory hot-plugging...

OpenZFS Now Supports Reacting To CPU/Memory Hot-Plugging  Phoronix

How to install Mint's Cinnamon Desktop UI on MX Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Intel's INT340X thermal code that is used by the likes of the Intel Thermal Daemon "Thermald" for thermal/power management with their modern SoCs will now be able to accept workload hints for making more informed thermal decisions...

Intel Adding Interface To Pass Workload Hints To The Linux Kernel For Thermal/Power Purposes  Phoronix

There’s always room in my Activities menu for a utilitarian text editor. Of course, the exact meaning of "utilitarian" is different for each user, but for me, it means a text editor with all the features I need and not much else. So far, FeatherPad has proven in many ways to fit these requirements.

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As this article goes online, DevOps teams are rounding the bend of eight months of remote work. Some teams were remote by design. Other teams had remote work forced on them. Now is an excellent time to take a refresher on what it means to be a high performing DevOps team that just works remotely.

Remember that people come before tools for a remote DevOps team. Here’s how you keep your people operating and feeling refreshed during these times.

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