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When reflecting on 2020, I do what many people do and think about what things were like prior to this year.  For me, I immediately go back to a spring day three years ago. Red Hat was hosting our EMEA Partner Conference; a mix of distributors, independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators and solution providers from across the region. Alongside the usual product updates and market insight sessions you might expect, we decided to do a little drumming.

Wine Developers Are Working On A New Linux Kernel Sync API To Succeed ESYNC/FSYNC  Phoronix

While there is the prior "ESYNC" and "FSYNC" work pursued by Wine for the Linux kernel, it appears Wine developers are back to the drawing board in coming up with a Linux kernel implementation for Wine synchronization primitives that will address all their needs and match the Windows behavior well...

42Gears SureMDM Simplifies Setting up Kiosk Mode on Linux Devices  PR Newswire India

Linux 5.11-rc4 was just released and it's looking like a fairly normal release at this stage of development aside from some notable additions that were merged this week...

Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored  Phoronix

MP 7,1 Trouble installing/booting linux ubuntu  Mac Rumors

Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression...

Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression  Phoronix

List of Commands to get Linux system info using terminal - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The pandemic didn't adversely impact the Gentoo Linux project's operations with seeing the overall number of commits grow by nearly 42% last year within the Gentoo repository. Gentoo also saw commits from 333 unique authors in 2020, up from 333 the year prior. Plus they've made other improvements too for this technical-minded Linux distribution too during 2020...

Gentoo Saw Total Commits Rise By 42% In 2020, Great Progress On Wayland  Phoronix

Corellium Posts Very Early Linux Port To Apple M1 Macs  Phoronix

Apple-focused security/virtualization startup Corellium has posted a very primitive build of Linux for Apple M1 Mac devices...

More improvements for Microsoft Surface laptops on Linux are set to land for Linux 5.12...

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