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Linux Software Market 2021 Statistics May Set New Growth Story in Upcoming Years – Express Keeper  Express Keeper

It's approaching one year since the proposal of FUTEX2 for addressing shortcomings of the existing FUTEX system call and allowing the semantics to better match that of the Windows behavior, which is of use when running Windows games on Linux via Steam Play's Wine/Proton. In the end the FUTEX2 system call can lead to lower CPU utilization and in turn allowing for greater Linux gaming performance...

Updated FUTEX2 Patches Posted For The Linux Kernel With A Focus On Helping Games  Phoronix

Top banks join Linux and open-source patent protection group  ZDNet

Building off yesterday's release of the Linux 5.11 kernel, the GNU folks have put out their "GNU Linux-libre 5.11-gnu" kernel that removes support for loading closed-source kernel modules, stripping out drivers/functionality that are dependent upon closed-source microcode/firmware, and other sanitization work in the name of maintaining a fully free software system...

GNU Linux-libre 5.11 Released With Many Peripheral Drivers Needing To Be De-Blobbed  Phoronix

How to Easily Encrypt and Decrypt Files and Directories in Linux Terminal  MakeUseOf

It's already been six years since the initial pre-alpha release of Devuan, the fork of Debian that aims to provide Debian without systemd and focus on init system independence. For marking the Valentine's Day occasion, developers released Devuan 3.1...

How to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to search for text within a file using the nano text editor  TechRepublic

Earlier this month Hector Martin and the Asahi Linux developers posted their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the Apple M1 ARM SoC platform for the mainline kernel with devices like the 2020 Mac Mini / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air devices. The second iteration of those Apple M1 Linux patches have now been posted...

Updated Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Bringing Up The Apple M1 SoC  Phoronix

Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy)  ZDNet

AMD users should immediately switch to the latest Linux 5.11 kernel  TechRadar

1. AMD users should immediately switch to the latest Linux 5.11 kernel  TechRadar
2. Linux 5.11 is out with AMD and Intel improvements (and Linus Torvalds is happy)  ZDNet
3. Linux 5.11 Released With Intel Integer Scaling, AMD Performance Boost, RTX 30 KMS  Phoronix
4. Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 5.11: Here’s What’s New  Fossbytes
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Heading out of Valentine's weekend, there is a new Vulkan specification update with a notable new extension...

AMD Ryzen 5000 Temperature Monitoring Support Sent In For Linux 5.12  Phoronix

Due to an unfortunate misalignment of the Ryzen 5000 series launch and the Linux kernel cycles, CPU temperature monitoring for Ryzen 5000 (Zen 3) desktop CPUs isn't landing until now with the Linux 5.12 kernel cycle...

How to protect backups from ransomware  Network World

How to Use Google Assistant on Windows, macOS, and Linux  Beebom