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The MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver originally developed as part of the Freedreno effort for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics on Linux while now supported by the likes of Google and Qualcomm's Code Aurora engineers has some notable changes in store for the next Linux kernel cycle...

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

For those looking for something more interesting than the Super Bowl today, the seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11-rc7 Arrives - Time For The Weekly Celebration Testing The New Kernel  Phoronix

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS available with Linux 5.8 and more news  Explica

GNU/Linux  Hackaday

Holding A Mirror Up In Front Of GNU/Linux  Hackaday

Linux 5.12 To Move Ahead In Phasing Out Support For Outdated Intel MIDs  Phoronix

More than a decade ago Intel was very excited about MIDs as "Mobile Internet Devices" with their early Menlow and Moorestown platforms. Intel's MID plays ultimately were unsuccessful in the long-term and the MID functionality ultimately evolved into smartphones and tablets. In 2021, the Intel MID support is being gutted from the Linux kernel...

While AMD has been crushing it when it comes to Linux performance and generally delivering good launch-day support, the one area many Linux/open-source advocates have been eager and hopeful to see change is around Coreboot support and ideally open-source firmware support such as by re-opening AGESA. Both inside and outside of AMD there continues being work in this direction...

2021 and Beyond: Linux Software Market Research Report | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, and Microsoft – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has continued pushing forward in 2021. The range of their work so far is quite diverse from finally landing SD/MMC driver support to at the same time being a bit more forward-looking and already working on 5-level paging support to handle terabytes of system RAM...

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2021 Analysis by Latest COVID19/CORONA Virus Impact with Market Positioning of Key Vendors: Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship, Changhong, etc. | InForGrowth  The Bisouv Network

With the incredible success of FWUPD and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) where most major hardware vendors are supporting it in some capacity for distributing firmware updates to Linux customers, there are BSD developers working to it port it over to their camp to support firmware updates...

Dropping a conditional (if) statement from the RADV driver in Mesa is helping the performance of discrete Radeon graphics cards with the RADV Vulkan driver for some games...

Linux 5.11-rc7 Arrives - Time For The Weekly Celebration Testing The New Kernel  Phoronix

Where Will the Penguin March From Here?  LinuxInsider.com

Open source development's collaborative innovation and community ethos have changed the world. In The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst explains that success in open source is found by "thinking of people as members of a community, moving from a transactional mindset to one built on commitment." However, there is still a barrier at the core of the open source development model: Frequently, it lacks human empathy.

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