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After last week sharing some Intel Tiger Lake benchmarks on Linux 5.10, the tables have turned and here are some similar tests when running Linux 5.10 on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series "Renoir" notebook...

A proposal and set of patches have been sent out around the Linux kernel's Page Table Isolation (PTI/KPTI) implementation to defer switching from the user page-table to kernel page-table until later in the kernel entry sequence. There are possible performance benefits and code improvements that would stem from this change...

Oracle Proposing Change To Linux's KPTI Meltdown Mitigation  Phoronix

Oracle Proposing Change To Linux's KPTI Meltdown Mitigation  Phoronix

Kaspersky and Linux are slowly becoming a combustible mix  iTWire

"Package manager" is a generic name for software to install, upgrade, and uninstall applications. Commands like dnf or apt on Linux, or pkg_add on BSD, or even pip on Python and luarocks on Lua, make it trivial for users to add new applications to their system. Once you've tried it, you're likely to find it hard to live without, and it's a convenience every operating system ought to include. Not all do, but the open source community tends to ensure the best ideas in computing are propagated across all platforms.

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Fedora 33 just came out, and I installed it right away. Among the many features in this new version of the Linux distribution is the latest GNOME desktop. GNOME 3.38 was released in September 2020, and I'm loving it.

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Windows 10 antivirus will soon deliver comprehensive protection on iOS and Linux too  Techradar

In addition to the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub (SFH) driver coming with Linux 5.11 for improving Ryzen laptop support, the AMD SoC PMC driver is also under review for landing in this next kernel release...

You don't have to work at a huge company to justify using a load balancer. You might be a hobbyist, self-hosting a website from a couple of Raspberry Pi computers. Perhaps you're the server administrator for a small business; maybe you do work for a huge company. Whatever your situation, you can benefit from using the HAProxy load balancer to manage your traffic.

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Linux Computer Market Share 2020 With Top Manufacturers: Dell, Minifree, Slimbook, System76, Ubuntushop.be, Purism  Royal Sutton News

Zeit is an open-source GUI tool for scheduling jobs via “crontab” and “at”. It is written in C++ and released under GPL-3.0 License. It is an easy to use tool that provides a simple

The post Zeit – A GUI Tool to Schedule Cron and At Jobs in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Endless OS 3.9.0 Released With Linux 5.8, GNOME 3.38, Flatpak 1.8.2  Fossbytes

Linux Software Market provides details by vendors, including company overview by: Google, RedHat, Amazon, Twitter, Novell, Facebook  The Daily Philadelphian

Valve's open-source developers responsible for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton are working on a new Vulkan extension to help in their porting/layering effort of Direct3D on top of the Vulkan API...

Red Hat Renewals Intelligence is a digital platform that places renewals data and insights directly in the hands of distributors and resellers. As part of Red Hat’s Partner Renewals Engagement Program (PREP), the Renewals Intelligence platform provides partners with daily-updated data on renewal performance and exclusive Red Hat sales insights. 

Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Top Manufacturers: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS etc.  TechnoWeekly

New version of RansomEXX ransomware targets Linux systems  SiliconANGLE News

Mesa 20.3 was branched this evening in marking the end of feature development for this Q4-2020 Mesa3D release that should debut as stable in December. This also means that Mesa 21.0 is now open for development...

Lilbits: Linux laptops, RISC-V hardware, and a ransomware attack (maybe)  Liliputing