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Linux Operating System Market 2020: Potential growth, attractive valuation make it is a long-term investment | Know the COVID19 Impact | Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. | InForGrowth  PRnews Leader

The first week of November brought numerous improvements to the KDE stack...

Cyberattackers Now Additionally Make Linux Variations of Their Ransomware  Editorials 360

The recently proposed new TTM memory management page allocator that can yield 3~5x faster page allocation as tested with the AMDGPU kernel driver will be coming for Linux 5.11...

New TTM Allocator For AMDGPU Graphics Memory Landing With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

humhub installation on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS- Open source social network - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Experimental Linux Patches Allow User-Space Peer-To-Peer DMA Between NVMe Drives  Phoronix

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on friday allow peer-to-peer DMA (P2PDMA) transfers between NVMe drives using existing O_DIRECT operations or the NVMe pass-through interface from user-space...

For those sticking to stable releases of Mesa3D there is Mesa 20.2.2 now available as the latest point release...

Following yesterday's Wine 5.21 release is now an adjoining Wine-Staging update that carries over 700 patches on top of it for testing purposes...

New Wasmtime and Wasmer releases appeared this week for advancing WebAssembly on the desktop...

I was introduced to open source by my husband, a long-term Unix/Linux user. When he encouraged me to attend the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG), a local meetup in the Raleigh, NC, area, I was quite intimidated, as I was one of a handful of women in attendance. But the more I learned about open source, the more intrigued I became.

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For fans of the Arch Linux distribution their Arch Conf 2020 virtual presentations have all been posted now for your enjoyment...

Arch Linux Conference 2020 Material Now Available  Phoronix

Hadoop Cluster Building is a step by step process where the process starts from purchasing the required servers, mounting into the rack, cabling, etc. and placing in Datacentre. Then we need to install the

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Warning: Major Windows Ransomware Gang Makes Its Way to Linux  Tech Times

Following yesterday's launch-day AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X benchmarks that showed the utter domination of Zen 3 carrying over just fine in the Linux realm, today we are looking at the performance of the Ryzen 5 5600X on Ubuntu against other Intel/AMD processors. The Ryzen 5 5600X is AMD's new $299 USD part that offers six cores / twelve threads and incredible uplift still over Zen 2 / Zen+ processors while outperforming Intel's Comet Lake competition.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Wine 5.21 was just released as one of the smaller bi-weekly updates this year...

Zink as the Mesa Gallium3D implementation putting OpenGL 3.x/4.x on top of the Vulkan API is now offering near-native performance...