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It's been three years that Retpolines (return trampolines) have been around as part of the Spectre defenses on Linux and kernel developers in particular are still working to better optimize different areas of their code to deal with the performance overhead incurred...

Linux 5.13 To Address Some Networking Overhead Caused By Retpolines  Phoronix

For users of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, it's been a very active past week...

Kill Linux Processes the Easy Way with Fkill  Tom's Hardware

Patches have been proposed for the GCC compiler to ultimately allow MinGW Windows executables to be debugged with Microsoft's debuggers...

Global Linux Operating System Market 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  NeighborWebSJ

The Long Journey Ahead For Linux On Apple Silicon  Hackaday

This week marked the arrival of Qt 6.1 Beta 2 for providing the latest bug fixes for this cross-platform toolkit ahead of the planned release next month...

Exclusive Report on Linux Operating System Industry: Market Size will Witness Substantial Growth by 2026 – Cabell Standard  Cabell Standard

2021-2027- Global Linux Software Market CAGR, Trends, Opportunities, Production and Consumption comprehensive Analysis (Impact of COVID-19) – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

A third and final release candidate of FreeBSD 13.0 was warranted ahead of its formal 13.0-RELEASE later this month...

WSL Hello sudo brings Windows Hello authentication to Windows Subsystem for Linux  XDA Developers

How to Install Manjaro Linux in a QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Operating System Market Drivers And Restrains, Along With Their Current And Expected Impact Till 2026| il, Hongjingyuan, Shape Foods, Fueder, ADM, Blackmores, GNC – Cabell Standard  Cabell Standard

Ubuntu 21.04 is moving ahead with plans to enable compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) by default for package builds in the name of greater performance...

AMD on Friday submitted a big batch of AMDGPU driver changes to DRM-Next ahead of next month's Linux 5.13 merge window...

AMD Sends In Aldebaran, FreeSync HDMI, Other Graphics Changes For Linux 5.13  Phoronix

This past week Debian 11 "Bullseye" embarked on its hard freeze in gearing up for release later this year...

As we get ready for spring, KDE developers continue polishing up their Wayland support for the Plasma 5.22 cycle...

Zymbit HSM4 & HSM6 security modules work with embedded Linux hardware, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano  CNX Software