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The GNOME desktop environment saw many enhancements in 2020 including a number of significant performance optimizations. While GNOME on Wayland has been solid for some time, there has been further enhancements there too. This year also brought the much anticipated GTK 4.0 toolkit release that will be interesting to see how its adoption goes next year. GNOME 40 is also in development for debut in the spring as the successor to this autumn's successful GNOME 3.38 release...

Rust 1.49 was released today for ending out 2020 with this popular programming language. Most notable with Rust 1.49 is the 64-bit ARM Linux support state being promoted...

Rust 1.49 Released With 64-bit ARM Linux Support Rated Tier-1  Phoronix

Our 10 favorite Chrome and Chrome OS features from 2020  Android Police

Random Password Generator Command in Linux we Rarely Use  hackernoon.com

Yesterday Intel released an updated open-source Media SDK for leveraging media acceleration on their graphics hardware. Along with that out today is the Intel Media Driver 20.4.5 release as their dedicated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

Windows and Linux servers turned into crypto miners  TechRadar

Windows and Linux servers turned into crypto miners  TechRadar

The Linux kernel with the likes of ARM and x86 hardware leverage kernel infrastructure for reporting their relevant CPU security mitigations while only now the MIPS kernel code is seeing work to report such vulnerabilities. However, on the MIPS front it's more difficult with some vendors not publicly acknowledging vulnerabilities and other cases of MIPS hardware vendors no longer producing the hardware in question or even in business...

Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors  Phoronix

How to install Snap Store on Elementary OS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Close All Google Chrome Windows at Once  How-To Geek

New Linux Drivers Bring PlayStation 5's DualSense Compatibility  IGN India

Con Kolivas took some time out of his New Year's Eve to release Linux 5.10-ck1 as his independent patch-set applied to the recently minted Linux 5.10 kernel and with that the latest MuQSS scheduler...

Linux 5.10-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS Scheduler  Phoronix

Linux 5.10-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS Scheduler  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Share Growing Rapidly with Recent Trends, Development, Revenue, Demand and Forecast to 2026  Fresno Observer

The Fedora project had a pretty terrific and exciting year especially with everything happening in the world this year. Fedora began appearing on more Lenovo device pre-loads, many features landed like Btrfs by default in Fedora Workstation, they continue to be leading the Wayland charge, and a lot of great engineering work by the folks from Red Hat...

Fedora Had A Super Year From Lenovo Preloads To Btrfs To Many Other New Features  Phoronix

Searching Wikipedia on the Linux command line with wikit  Network World