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For those that have been trying to find a desktop-friendly BSD operating system that works smoothly out of the box but haven't yet found the perfect match, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1 is now available for improving this desktop-minded FreeBSD-derived open-source operating system...

CouchDB is a high-performance opensource NoSQL solution where data is stored in JSON-based document format as key/value pairs, lists, or maps. It provides a RESTFUL API that enables users to easily manage database documents

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Need some help setting up an email server at home - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2021-2025: Top Companies Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs, SG WORK, Tencent, yiqixie.com, Kingsoft  NeighborWebSJ

Wayland 1.18 released back in February 2020 while now nearly one year later it's been succeeded by Wayland 1.19...

IO_uring continues to be one of the most exciting technical innovations in the Linux kernel in recent years not only for more performant I/O but also opening up other doors for new Linux innovations. IO_uring has continued adding features since being mainlined in 2019 and now the newest proposed feature is the ability to build new ioctls / kernel interfaces atop IO_uring...

Experimental Patches Allow For New Ioctls To Be Built Over IO_uring  Phoronix

Reports: Expired NuGet Cert Borks .NET 5 Apps on Debian Linux  Visual Studio Magazine

Lilbits: A new Linux-based tablet OS, and the latest Bond villain is… product placement?  Liliputing

Google at odds with package maintainers for Chromium. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to Manipulate Images in the Linux Terminal  MakeUseOf

'One of the most beautiful bugs I've seen': Decade-old sudo bug grants Linux root access | SC Media  SC Magazine

Serious 10-year-old flaw in Linux sudo command; a new version patches it  Network World

With a pending patch, the Linux 5.11 AMD Zen 2 / Zen 3 performance is looking very good as far as the out-of-the-box performance is concerned when using Schedutil as is becoming the increasingly default CPU frequency scaling governor on more distributions / default kernels. With the previously noted Linux 5.11 regression addressed from when the AMD CPU frequency invariance support was first introduced, the Schedutil performance from small Ryzen systems up through big EPYC hardware is looking quite good. But how much upside is left in relation to the optimal CPU frequency scaling performance with the "performance" governor? Here is a look at those benchmarks on Ryzen and EPYC for Schedutil vs. Performance on a patched Linux 5.11 kernel.

AMD Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks On Linux 5.11 Shows More Upside Potential  Phoronix

Sudo Bug Gives Root Access to Mass Numbers of Linux Systems  Threatpost

Finally with the upcoming Linux 5.12 cycle is support for Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync for Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" Xe Graphics and newer...

Linux 5.12 Bringing VRR / Adaptive-Sync For Intel TIger Lake / Xe Graphics  Phoronix

Linux security and growing cyberthreats: Everything you need to know  TechGenix

PSA: If your PC runs Linux, you should update Sudo now  XDA Developers