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How to Install Linux on Chromebook?  Fossbytes

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating System Market including top key players Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS, Android  PRnews Leader

Linux Software Market 2020 Geographical Segmentation, Opportunities by Types, Application, Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Samsung, DELL, Google  TechnoWeekly

Linux Patches AIm To Provide Fork'ing Brute Force Attack Mitigation  Phoronix

Building off a set of "request for comments" patches from September, a set of patches were sent out on Sunday for providing brute force attack mitigation around the fork system call...

Building community and serving our customers is a huge part of Red Hat. Not only do we encourage customers to get involved, but we also create and foster various opportunities where it’s possible to do so. A perfect example of this is Red Hat Accelerators, which launched as an established way to serve passionate enterprise customers who wanted to share and engage with each other around relevant IT issues, remedies, and solutions.

Global Linux Operating System Market Growth Rate and Opportunities By 2025 – With COVID-19 Outbreak, Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Aerospace Journal

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.10-rc1 that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY2020 kernel. Linux 5.10 isn't the largest kernel update in recent time but still has a lot of interesting additions and improvements...

Linux 5.10-rc1 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Additions  Phoronix

Ubuntu 20.10 “Groovy Gorilla” is available with images optimized for Raspberry Pi GNOME 3.38, Linux Kernel 5.8 and preinstalled software such as Firefox 81 and LibreOffice 7.0.2  re:Jerusalem

Linux 5.10 Brings Many Changes From Better CPU Support To File-System Optimizations  Phoronix

The Linux 5.10 merge window is set to close this afternoon followed by around seven weeks worth of release candidates before the stable kernel release in December. As usual here is our look at the many new features set to premiere with this next version of the Linux kernel.

The Linux kernel's TTM memory management code that is most notably used by the Radeon / AMDGPU kernel drivers but also Nouveau, QXL, VMWGFX, and others, is seeing a new back-end allocation pool that can yield 3~5x faster page allocation performance for video memory...

Microsoft Weekly: Edge on Linux, the October 2020 Update, and more games  Neowin

Microsoft Weekly: Edge on Linux, the October 2020 Update, and more games  Neowin

Alder Lake Support Published For The Open-Source Intel Compute Stack  Phoronix

This past week Intel began adding Alder Lake support to their Linux graphics driver and that also continued on the compute side with the Intel Compute-Runtime receiving initial support for Alder Lake S "ADLS" too...

While AMD has landed Znver3 support in GNU Binutils, the company hasn't yet sent out patches for either the GCC or LLVM/Clang compilers in setting up the Zen 3 target with its new instructions or optimized scheduling model / cost table. But a basic implementation has been merged to LLVM for allowing "-march=znver3" based on the limited public details thus far...

The last major release of the X.Org Server was in May 2018 but don't expect the long-awaited X.Org Server 1.21 to actually be released anytime soon...