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The end of the year is the perfect time to look back and explore where we've been and where we're going in the Kubernetes world. I particularly want to focus on the ecosystem that formed around Kubernetes in 2020, which several great articles on Opensource.com covered. I'll review them in the order they were published.

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Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Report 2020: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS etc.  LionLowdown

Linux Operating System Market Shares Analysis by Major Companies- IBM, openSUSE, Elementary OS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu Linux, Debian, Fedora Linux  Factory Gate

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Top Company Profile: Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo etc.  Factory Gate

Are you considering making a switch from VirtualBox to KVM hypervisor? One of your greatest concerns would be starting all over again by creating new virtual machines in KVM – an arduous task to

The post How To Migrate Virtualbox VMs Into KVM VMs In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"  Phoronix

Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"  Phoronix

There's nothing quite like some fun holiday-weekend reading as a fiery mailing list post by Linus Torvalds. The Linux creator is out with one of his classical messages, which this time is arguing over the importance of ECC memory and his opinion on how Intel's "bad policies" and market segmentation have made ECC memory less widespread...

Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel's "Bad Policies" Over ECC  Phoronix

New Golang Worm Targets Windows And Linux Systems To Mine Monero  Cyber Security News

Dav1d 0.8 was released this weekend (and subsequently 0.8.1 too) as the latest major release for this CPU-based AV1 decoder hosted by the VideoLAN project. Dav1d continues to be about offering the best AV1 decode speed and with the v0.8 series are even faster results -- so here are some of our initial data points as well from some weekend benchmarking...

BleachBit 4.2.0  Neowin

In ending out a strong year for OpenBenchmarking.org growth in 2020, there were also many test profile updates and some new test profiles (benchmarks) that were made available in December for Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org users...

LLVM has added support for PowerPC LE as its newest target...

The numbers Steam posted on New Year's Day for the December 2020 Linux gaming marketshare showed a drop of 0.33% down to just 0.57%. That is a rather large drop but now Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage wise but not as bad as originally reported...

Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74%  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's Wine 6.0-RC5 test release is an updated Wine-Staging build that adds nearly 800 patches atop the upstream code-base for experimental/testing features...

Fedora is preparing to ship the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel as a stable release update to those on Fedora 32 and newer...

DTPM "Avoid Burning Yourself" Framework Diverted From Linux 5.11  Phoronix