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Fedora Is Looking For Help Testing Linux 5.10 Ahead Of Shipping That LTS Kernel Update  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Growth Factors, And Regional Analysis by Forecast To 2023  LionLowdown

All Things Open, a technology conference held in October every year, is always a wonderful learning experience. For 2020, the conference shifted to an online format, which had its ups and downs. The chance encounters with acquaintances in the hallways and having lunch with friends were noticeably absent, but the learning experience was as good as always. Honestly, in some ways, it was better because everyone got a front-row seat, and there were no standing-room-only talks.

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If we define "work" as any contribution that receives any kind of reward, then work is—and always has been—one of the major factors that define who we are. It is a major aspect of our lives. Throughout our work (whatever that may be for us), we meet friends, identify sources of intellectual stimulation and emotional fulfillment, grow, and feel at our most creative and innovative. To our families, friends, communities and societies, work is extremely important. We should not take work—or its role in our lives—lightly or for granted.

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Linux Operating System Market 2019 Global Applications, Industry Size, Challenges, Development, Opportunities, Future Growth and Trends by Forecast to 2023 | Effects of COVID-19  LionLowdown

Yesterday I wrote about the DTPM framework being sent in for Linux 5.11 but ultimately Linus Torvalds has decided not to accept it out of the merge window...

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

Wine 6.0 stable should be out this month but for now is another weekly release candidate of this open-source project that allows running Windows games/applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD platforms...

The Linux kernel has been seeing incredible innovations and optimizations in the I/O area in recent times from IO_uring to numerous performance enhancements. One of the recent performance enhancements seeing activity and promising results is the no-copy bvec behavior...

Linux No-Copy Bvec Patches Revved For The New Year As Another I/O Optimization  Phoronix

The latest OpenCL "Clover" work to land in Mesa 21.0 is support for the cl_khr_il_program extension...

How to Install and Play Among Us on a Chromebook  Beebom

For as great as Linux 5.11 is with its new features, there is also some prominent material that has yet to be upstreamed into the mainline kernel -- some of which is likely to hit in 2021 while other changes have less likely ambitions for mainline...

11 Features That Didn't Make It In 2020 For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

How to Get Persistent SSH Connections in Linux Using Eternal Terminal  Tom's Hardware

ReactOS as the long work-in-progress open-source operating system implementation of Windows enjoyed much progress over the course of 2020...

While development on KDE (and other open-source projects too) was lighter this week as a result of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the KDE desktop still saw some refinements this week...

Garuda Linux "Serpent Eagle" Released With Dr460nized Gaming Edition  Fossbytes

How to Install Pop OS in Virtualbox Virtual Machine - Linux Shout  H2S Media

I have always been fascinated with the night sky. When I was younger, the only reference materials available were books, and they seemed to depict a sky that looked different from the one I saw from my home.

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