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Over the past week we have looked at the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X/5950X Linux performance as well as that of the lower-end -- but still very powerful -- Ryzen 5 5600X. Today we are striking in the middle in looking at the last Zen 3 CPU model for the moment: the Ryzen 7 5800X. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a $449 USD processor that is packing eight cores / sixteen threads, a 3.8GHz base clock. 4.7GHz boost clock, 32MB L3 cache, and has a 105 Watt TDP.

Open Source Mindset Bolsters Hybrid Cloud Strategies  CIO

For those wondering the outcome of last month's Debian 11 "Bullseye" artwork voting, a new default theme for this 2021 GNU/Linux distribution release has been decided...

How to Find and Delete Broken Symlinks on Linux  How-To Geek

The Translation Table Maps (TTM) video memory management code used within the Linux kernel by DRM drivers such as Nouveau and Radeon/AMDGPU is seeing some improvements with the forthcoming Linux 5.11 kernel cycle...

TTM Multihop + Intel Keem Bay Display Support Queued For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Following last month's systemd 247-RC1 release that was headlined by the systemd-oomd service being merged for better low memory / out-of-memory handling and many other changes, a second release candidate is now available...

Global Linux Software Market With COVID-19 Update 2020 | Google, RedHat, Amazon, Twitter, Novell, Facebook  BCFocus

Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux Receiving Update With Two Zero-Day Patches  Gadgets 360

Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux Receiving Update With Two Zero-Day Patches  Gadgets 360

Fedora stakeholders and the folks at Red Hat have been discussing the idea of having a "lightly maintained" package repository (or some RPM metadata otherwise to indicate such light maintenance) for packages that are either very new, not receiving much packaging attention, or simply used as a build dependency for other packages...

I'm very excited about GNOME 3.38. The new version of the Linux desktop environment includes lots of new features and a noticeable performance boost. But in the background, mostly unnoticed, is another neat new thing about GNOME: the development of GNOME OS.

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In early 2020, I wrote an article on three metrics for tracking and measuring offline, in-person community-building activities. Little did I (or the world) know then that offline, in-person activities of any kind would soon become unfeasible for the foreseeable future.

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MX Linux 19.3 Released: A Midweight Debian and antiX OS Spinoff  Fossbytes

Microsoft’s Linux Systems Group launches CBL-Mariner  EnterpriseTalk

Creating shell scripts is one of the most essential skills that Linux users should have at the tip of their fingers. Shell scripts play an enormous role in automating repetitive tasks which otherwise would

The post How to Create Simple Shell Scripts in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

PAPPL as the printer application framework created by the CUPS founder is approaching the v1.0 release...

Global K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market Top Manufacturers: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS etc.  TechnoWeekly

Just a day after the CXL 2.0 specification was published, the initial Linux kernel support for this updated Compute Express Link revision was sent out for review...

Intel Begins Sending Out Linux Support Patches For CXL 2.0  Phoronix