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Now in its 15th year, the Red Hat Innovation Awards recognize the technological achievements of Red Hat customers around the world who demonstrate creative thinking, determined problem-solving and transformative uses of Red Hat technology.

Earlier today, we announced the winners of the 2021 Red Hat Innovation Awards, recognizing the technological achievements of our customers around the world. Each year we receive so many strong entries that showcase creative problem-solving, innovative thinking and transformative uses of Red Hat technology that we want to bring more of those stories to you. 

Alyssa Rosenzweig, known for her work on the Panfrost open-source drivr for Arm Mali graphics, has published the latest findings around the Apple M1 graphics processor. In fact, enough understanding to get a shaded, spinning cube rendering on the Apple M1 using a simple demo so far while the open-source driver support is still the goal...

Supermicro Server desperate to find a fix. Can't boot USB and install Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux Computer Market 2021 Investment Opportunity Analysis and Industry Share Forecast 2026 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

While normally after seven weekly release candidates the next stable Linux kernel release is declared, Linux 5.12 is one of those special kernels needing at least an eighth RC before going gold...

Linux 5.12 Diverted From Release To Allow An Extra Week Of Testing  Phoronix

How to create desktop shortcut for any app in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

While Arch Linux now has its own convenient installer for quick and easy Arch installs, for those in search of an out-of-the-box, desktop-friendly Arch based Linux distribution Endeavour OS remains one of the leading options in 2021. This weekend marks the availability of Endeavour's April 2021 install media refresh...

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Spins Up April Release, Adds Sway Community Edition  Phoronix

Jonathan Carter who was initially elected as Debian Project Leader last year to succeed Sam Hartman has now been re-elected for another year serving in this role...

Released last week was the LuxCoreRender 2.5 open-source physically based renderer. Significant with this v2.5 update is OptiX/RTX acceleration support in addition to its existing CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU render paths. Given that, here are some fresh benchmarks of LuxCoreRender 2.5 across an assortment of NVIDIA graphics cards.

Who doesn't love a trip down memory lane? When recounting our career paths, they're often crooked and veer in unexpected directions. Many of us take pride in that. We trusted our intuition or a friend's advice and it led to experiences we'll never forget that shaped who we are today. And where we are today.

I asked our community of writers to share a little bit about what kind of jobs they had before they got into tech. Here are 13 of them you're sure to enjoy. 

(Click on their names to read their articles.)

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Linux Operating System Market to Witness Robust Expansion by 2027 | Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Red Hat  NeighborWebSJ

Can't reboot Kubuntu 20.04 with Nvida driver updates. - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Zorin OS 16 looks great: the Linux distro that wants to appeal to Windows 10 and macOS users with as little friction as possible  Asap Land

How to Install Docker on Ubuntu Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install or Enable Cockpit on AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

If all goes well Linux 5.12 will be released tomorrow and in turn will kick off the Linux 5.13 merge window (otherwise 5.12-rc8 will be issued and the stable then a week later). In any case once the Linux 5.13 merge window does open there are a lot of prominent changes expected...

Purism Librem 14 Linux laptop is now shipping  Liliputing