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GIMP 2.99.4 Released As One Step Closer To GIMP 3.0  Phoronix

After a half-decade working toward it, Ruby 3.0 was released on Christmas Day with much greater performance and other features for this high-level general purpose programming language...

Linux Software Market Size By Type, By Application, By Geography, By Top Companies And Forecast To 2027  LionLowdown

It's not the Grinch in 2020 that stole Christmas, but the Schedutil CPU frequency scaling governor on the in-development Linux 5.11 kernel that is thrashing performance for AMD Zen 2 and newer. Distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Manjaro are beginning to use CPUFreq Schedutil by default on newer kernels and thus leading to a very bad initial/out-of-the-box experience with the current behavior on the early Linux 5.11 code.

It's been a turbulent year and 2020 is certainly ending interesting in the Linux/open-source space... If it wasn't odd enough seeing Sony providing a new official Linux driver for their PlayStation 5 DualSense controller for ending out the year, there is also a new Linux port to the Nintendo 64 game console... Yes, a brand new port to the game console that launched more than two decades ago...

It's 2020: Linux Kernel Sees New Port To The Nintendo 64  Phoronix

How Do You Install a DEB File in Ubuntu?  MakeUseOf

Linux 5.11 Is Regressing Hard For AMD Performance With Schedutil  Phoronix

You should get these apps for your new Chromebook  9to5Google

Linux 5.10 Btrfs Hitting A Performance Regression But Improving With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Linux 5.10 as a Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel has been off to a rocky start after an immediate point release due to a RAID issue, some reporting AMDGPU problems, and also a staggering Btrfs performance regression hitting some users...

New Chromebook Users: 10 things you need to know to get started [VIDEO]  Chrome Unboxed

Redox OS, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system, is out with a new Christmas release...

6 Best Ubuntu Linux Alternatives for Beginners to use in 2021 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

For those looking to get involved with the Fedora project in manner besides the likes of coding and documentation, a Fedora Zine is being established and are looking for creative submissions...

There’s a somewhat obscure feature in Linux and Unix shells that allows you to open a sort of do-while loop for the cat command. It’s called the heredoc, and it enables you to have, more or less, a text editor no matter what shell you’re using. The syntax is:

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The COVID-19 pandemic required a paradigm change in education in 2020, as face-to-face interaction between teachers and students was largely replaced by remote learning beginning in the spring. Opensource.com writers helped teachers, students, and families around the world rise to the challenge with examples of open software tools fueling innovation in teaching and learning.

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Looking back through Opensource.com's articles about DevOps in 2020, there was a bit of something for everyone—from people starting the DevOps journey to seasoned DevOps veterans. The articles focused on testing, software methodologies, and DevOps' most important part: the people. Here are the top 10 DevOps articles of 2020.

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Wasmer 1.0 RC1 Released For Running WebAssembly On The Desktop Or Anywhere  Phoronix

It's looking like Wasmer 1.0 will be released early in the new year as the open-source WebAssembly run-time for desktops or to run WASM code anywhere as a "universal runtime" in contexts outside of the web browser...