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Better Microsoft Surface Support Is On The Way With Linux 5.12  Phoronix

COVID-19 Update: Global Linux Operating System Market is Expected to Grow at a Healthy CAGR with Top players: Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat, Inc, etc. | InForGrowth  NeighborWebSJ

Given the talk in prior days around patches for PGO'ing the Linux kernel and some readers not being familiar with Profile Guided Optimizations by code compilers, here are some fresh benchmarks on a Ryzen 9 5950X looking at the benefits of applying PGO optimizations to various benchmarks...

KDE Customization Guide: 11 Ways to Change the Look and Feel of Your Linux Desktop  It's FOSS

How to install Master PDF Editor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

For those making use of Linux's modern exFAT file-system, a significant optimization is on the way for when deleting files with the "dirsync" mount option set...

Linux's exFAT Driver Will Soon Be Able To Delete Big Files Much Faster  Phoronix

Communities and the value they inherently have in our lives has never been more highlighted than over the past year as we deal with a global pandemic keeping us home, away from conferences and events, and busy with the complexities of childcare, elderly care, working remote, and more. 

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If you happened to have a time machine and chose to shoot yourself back a year to ask me what I thought about making open source contributions (of all the things you could've done), you may have guessed that I would just shrug and say something along the lines of, "I don't know, isn't that reserved for all the hard-core devs with the insane GitHub stats and decked-out macros and stuff? I'd have no idea what I was doing, and who would even care what some random college student had to say about their code?" And you'd probably be correct.

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In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 7 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.

There are lots of ways people manage email. Most people I have talked to over the past few years fall into one of two categories: The people who keep everything in their Inbox folder, and those who do not. For those that do not, the concept of Inbox Zero comes into play frequently.

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Corellium Releases 'Very Early Beta' of Linux for Apple M1 Macs [Download]  iClarified

While Mesa's Panfrost Gallium3D driver has been working out well for modern ARM Mali open-source graphics support, for the old Mali 400/450 series hardware there still is the "Lima" driver within Mesa that doesn't receive too much attention these days (just around 70 commits over the past year) but as its first work of 2021 saw an initial shader cache implementation...

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The FreeBSD project today published its Q4-2020 status report concerning all the interesting happenings for this open-source BSD operating system...

How to install Balena Etcher on Manjaro Linux? - Linux Shout  H2S Media

A Couple Of Kids Discovered How To Break And Bypass Linux Mint Screensaver Lock  Hot Hardware

How to Find a Directory in Linux  MakeUseOf

Prior to Mesa 21.0 being branched this week in preparations for the quarterly stable Mesa3D release, a number of open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver optimizations were merged...

5 Best free PDF editors for Ubuntu Linux in 2021 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

AMD processors along with older Intel processors will enjoy much faster AES-NI XTS crypto performance with the Linux 5.12 kernel this spring...