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Xfce 4.16 Released With Numerous Improvements To This Lightweight GTK3 Desktop  Phoronix

Microsoft continues pushing new code into Mesa 21.0 as its efforts around Mesa continue to ramp up principally around GPU acceleration within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as allowing the likes of OpenGL and OpenCL to function under Windows 10 in the absence of native GL/CL drivers by using Mesa to translate the APIs for consumption by Direct3D 12 drivers...

How to Move Linux Files With the Mv Command  MakeUseOf

Fedora 34 Planning To Make Use Of Systemd-OOMD To Improve Low Memory Experience  Phoronix

At the end of November systemd 247 released with the new Out-of-Memory Daemon (systemd-oomd) and for the Fedora 34 release next year that will likely be enabled by default for all spins...

How to install Tor Browser on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The State of Safety Certification of Platforms  Embedded Computing Design

Haiku as the open-source OS inspired by BeOS continues to be quite active in feature development as 2020 draws to a close...

New Part Day: Hackboard 2, An X86 Single-Board Computer  Hackaday

The Linux hardware monitoring "k10temp" driver is dropping support for reporting CPU voltage and current information for AMD Zen-based processors over lack of documentation for being able to properly support the functionality...

How to install Latte dock on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The Fastest Linux OS For AMD Ryzen Zen 3? It's Still Intel Clear Linux  Phoronix

As we have shown with prior AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors, the Linux distribution generally offering the fastest out-of-the-box performance is Intel's Clear Linux platform. Given there aren't many other distributions as aggressively optimizing their default package set and engaging in features like AutoFDO, PGO, and various out-of-tree patches in the name of modern Intel x86_64 Linux performance -- and in turn, AMD performance benefits as well -- Clear Linux really shines with modern hardware. Testing of the latest Clear Linux with a Ryzen 9 5900X continues to delivering promising performance compared to the likes of Fedora, openSUSE, Manjaro, Debian, and Ubuntu.

If you miss flying this holiday season due to the pandemic, you can at least experience it virtually by flying your own aircraft with the open-source, cross-platform FlightGear flight simulator software...

FlightGear 2020.3.5 Released With Hundreds Of Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Red Hat defends CentOS decision following push back  TechRadar

CloudLinux Commits More Than $1 Million a Year to CentOS Replacement  HostReview.com

Global Linux Operating System Market Top Leading Companies: IBM, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian  Factory Gate

Ahead of the upcoming freezes set to begin around Debian 11 "Bullseye", the Debian developers working on KDE packaging have been working to get all the latest components updated in time...

Linspire, an early Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to "Lindows" that went dormant and then resurrected in 2018 and continuing an Ubuntu-based distribution, is out ahead of the holidays with its Linspire 10 beta release...