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Adding to the list of big ticket changes for GNOME 40 is Mutter now supporting atomic mode-setting...

In previous years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 13 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

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Best mathematics packages for Linux in 2021  Techradar

Every year, my wife's book club has a book exchange during the holidays. Due to the need to maintain physical distance in 2020, I created an online gift exchange for them to use during a book club videoconference. Apparently, the virtual book exchange worked out (at least, I received kind compliments from the book club members), so I decided to share this simple little hack.

How the book exchange usually works

In past years, the exchange has gone something like this:

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Pyston started out as a fork of CPython and was very promising during its early days as a Dropbox project for delivering on high performance Python. Its performance was great but in 2017 Dropbox stopped supporting it. Then at the end of 2020, Pyston reappeared and Pyston 2.0 promoted ~20% faster performance than Python 3.8. Pyston 2.x was developed by many of the original developers from Dropbox now out working on their own firm...

exGENT Live Distro Makes Gentoo Linux Fun to Use in 2021 with the LXQt Desktop  LXer

Linux 101: How to copy files and directories from the command line  TechRepublic

Red Hat's Disruption of CentOS Unleashes Storm of Dissent  HPCwire

Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon and the uncertain future of the LG Rollable smartphone  Liliputing

Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon and the uncertain future of the LG Rollable smartphone  Liliputing

Global Linux Computer Market (2020-2026) | Latest COVID19 Impact Analysis | Know About Brand Players: Dell, System76, Purism, Slimbook, TUXEDO Computers, etc. | InForGrowth  Murphy's Hockey Law

How to install Notepad++ on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Linux 101: Renaming files and folders  TechRepublic

With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa on a nice upward trajectory with most recently now having the backing of a Valve contract developer and a focus on getting the backlog of patches to this Gallium3D code upstreamed, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at where the performance currently stands when using Zink atop the RADV Vulkan driver compared to using the native RadeonSI driver with this round of testing from a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.

Red Hat's Disruption of CentOS Unleashes Storm of Dissent  EnterpriseAI

Microsoft Previews Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows  Redmondmag.com

Linux 101: Listing files and folders within a directory  TechRepublic

Linux 101: How to create a directory from the command line  TechRepublic

The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...

DreamBus Botnet Targets Linux Systems  GovInfoSecurity.com