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This week marked the arrival of Qt 6.1 Beta 2 for providing the latest bug fixes for this cross-platform toolkit ahead of the planned release next month...

Exclusive Report on Linux Operating System Industry: Market Size will Witness Substantial Growth by 2026 – Cabell Standard  Cabell Standard

2021-2027- Global Linux Software Market CAGR, Trends, Opportunities, Production and Consumption comprehensive Analysis (Impact of COVID-19) – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

A third and final release candidate of FreeBSD 13.0 was warranted ahead of its formal 13.0-RELEASE later this month...

WSL Hello sudo brings Windows Hello authentication to Windows Subsystem for Linux  XDA Developers

How to Install Manjaro Linux in a QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Operating System Market Drivers And Restrains, Along With Their Current And Expected Impact Till 2026| il, Hongjingyuan, Shape Foods, Fueder, ADM, Blackmores, GNC – Cabell Standard  Cabell Standard

Ubuntu 21.04 is moving ahead with plans to enable compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) by default for package builds in the name of greater performance...

AMD on Friday submitted a big batch of AMDGPU driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 5.13 merge window...

AMD Sends In Aldebaran, FreeSync HDMI, Other Graphics Changes For Linux 5.13  Phoronix

This past week Debian 11 "Bullseye" embarked on its hard freeze in gearing up for release later this year...

As we get ready for spring, KDE developers continue polishing up their Wayland support for the Plasma 5.22 cycle...

Zymbit HSM4 & HSM6 security modules work with embedded Linux hardware, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano  CNX Software

Linux Looks To Finally Remove Its Legacy IDE Driver Support  Phoronix

It's 2021 and proposed patches by upstream developers would finally remove Linux's legacy IDE driver code...

Linux Systems Administrator  IT-Online

How to Take and Edit Screenshots in Ubuntu With Shutter  MUO - MakeUseOf

For a long while now Linux kernel developers have discusses the prospects of optionally allowing the Rust language to be used for new device drivers within the Linux kernel areas and other areas within the kernel for this language that prides itself on safety and performance. As the first baby step towards that dream, initial Rust support appeared this week in the Linux-Next tree...

Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next  Phoronix

Recently Ubuntu maker Canonical committed to using Google's Flutter user-interface toolkit as its "default choice" for their mobile and desktop applications moving forward. There is now an Ubuntu Blog post further detailing their interests in Flutter...