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If Red Hat's new no-cost offering for up to 16 production systems for RHEL doesn't fit your requirements and are evaluating alternatives to CentOS 8 that will be EOL'ed this year, Rocky Linux remains one of the leading contenders and is on track for its inaugural release in Q2 of this year...

Corellium Releases 'Completely Usable' Version of Linux for M1 Macs  MacRumors

Linux Mint 20.1 is a desktop anyone can love  TechRepublic

How to Install and Remove Packages in Arch Linux  MakeUseOf

To get a major boost, running Windows apps on Linux is what comes next  Insider Advantage Georgia

Linux is now 'fully usable' on Apple Silicon M1 Macs  AppleInsider

Following a very active past couple of days, developers from security startup Corellium have followed through on their word so far of publishing the Apple Silicon patches to the Linux kernel mailing list for possible upstreaming in the future that allow the Linux kernel to boot with Apple M1 hardware...

How to Change Your Linux Password  MakeUseOf

BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix & Linux Grows Q4 Revenue 83% YoY by Securing Cloud Infrastructure  GlobeNewswire

Linux now 'completely usable' on M1 Mac mini  iMore

Following the announcement at the end of last year that CentOS 8 will be ending and instead focusing on CentOS Stream as the future upstream to RHEL, there have been many concerned by the absence of CentOS 8 past this year. In trying to fill that void, Red Hat announced today they will be making Red Hat Enterprise Linux free for small production deployments...

Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development teams  ZDNet

For those still making use of pre-GCN AMD graphics cards supported by the R600 Gallium3D driver (namely the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series), the open-source "R600g" Gallium3D driver now has nearly feature complete NIR support...

CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers  Ars Technica

LibreOffice 7.1 should be released at the start of February while now the second to last release candidate is available for testing of this leading cross-platform, open-source office suite...

Several readers have expressed concerned that Qt open-source downloads have disappeared but The Qt Company has now commented it's only a temporary issue due to a "severe hardware failure" in the cloud...

Linux Sys Admin - Bath  Gi Media

How to install iTunes on Linux such as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Uninstall Applications from Ubuntu [Beginner's Guide]  It's FOSS

With the BUS1 in-kernel IPC not panning out and not seeing any major code work in nearly two years, the user-space based, D-Bus compatible DBus-Broker remains the performant and current option for those looking at something faster and more reliable than D-Bus itself...