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Linux 5.12 Coming In At Around 28.8 Million Lines, AMDGPU Driver Closing In On 3 Million  Phoronix

Building off the recent DXVK 1.8 release is a new point release with more performance optimizations, game fixes, and related work to this Direct3D-on-Vulkan translation layer that is extremely popular with Linux gamers...

The Radeon ROCm open-source compute documentation has been updated to more clearly spell out what was already implied: their focus is on compute for headless, GUI-less workloads and not OpenCL or compute for conventional desktop applications...

How to Get Started Using Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Get Started Using Linux  MakeUseOf

From FreeBSD 13 nearing release and helloSystem making waves to Linux 5.11 getting buttoned up while paired with the virtual FOSDEM 2021 conference was able to capture much interest in the open-source community during another pandemic month...

helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February  Phoronix

helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Linux Users In February  Phoronix

Global Blockchain Technology Market Share, Growth by 2027, Key Manufacturers- The Linux Foundation, Chain Inc., Oracle Corporation, Fintech & Blockchain Software House, Bits, Inc  South Florida Theater Review

Vulkan 1.2.171 is out this morning with several fixes and clarifications to this high performance graphics / compute API specification while there is also a new extension for allowing BlackBerry QNX support...

Linux Mint team wants users to upgrade, may enforce some  Ghacks Technology News

Linus Torvalds battles power cuts to keep Linux releases rolling out  ZDNet

The Qt Company is now offering some checks for the Clazy framework to help in porting Qt 5 code to Qt 6 compatibility...

Creating and merging PDFs on Linux  Network World

Linus Torvalds reveals why the latest Linux kernel was almost seriously delayed  TechRadar

IAR Systems adds Functional Safety certification for build tools for Linux  WFMZ Allentown

IAR Systems adds Functional Safety certification for build tools for Linux  PRNewswire

Linux Software Market Is Booming Worldwide – Google, Twitter, Facebook and Others – South Florida Theater Review  South Florida Theater Review

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2021 Industry Growth Analysis, Future Predictions, SWOT Analysis, By Top Players- Google Apple Inc Yozodcs SoftMaker (FreeOffice) Shimo Tencent Kingsoft SG WORK yiqixie.com WordPerfect  South Florida Theater Review

My wife and I moved into a new home in October 2020. As soon as it started getting cold, we realized some shortcomings of the home's older heating system (including one heating zone that was always on). We had Nest thermostats in our previous home, and the current setup was not nearly as convenient. There are multiple thermostats in our house, and some had programmed heating schedules, others had different schedules, some had none at all.

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