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Now with the CPUFreq fix landing this week in Linux Git, the mainline Linux 5.11 kernel in its near final state is looking in very good shape for AMD Zen 2/3 hardware from Ryzen laptops and desktops through EPYC servers. The Linux 5.11 development kernel was regressed for the better part of the past two months but now that the frequency invariance regression is addressed, not only is the regression gone but generally is performing much better compared to prior kernel versions.

AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

AMD is looking to hire more Linux engineers  TechRadar

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market 2021 Strategic Assessments – Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper  KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper

Linux 5.11 stable is expected to be released on Sunday barring any second thoughts by Linus Torvalds that could lead to an eighth weekly release candidate that would in turn push the official release back by one week. In any case, Linux 5.11 will be formally out soon and it's an exciting one on the feature front...

The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots For AMD + Intel This Cycle  Phoronix

AMD looking for Linux help  Fudzilla

With Linux 5.11 there is open-source Nouveau KMS support for Ampere GPUs -- just kernel mode-setting without any form of 3D acceleration. The actual hardware acceleration requires more work and also NVIDIA to release the necessary signed firmware binaries. With Linux 5.12 there still is no 3D acceleration but a big set of patches was merged as a step in that direction...

SageTea Announces the Release of XFone - a Powerful Computer Packed in a Smartphone  Benzinga

OBS Studio, the cross-platform open-source solution for live streaming and screen recording, has landed the last major piece of its effort to natively support Wayland...

Here’s An App To Bring Google Assistant to Windows, macOS or Linux PCs: How You to Install and Use  MySmartPrice

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size – Industry Analysis, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2020-2025 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Scenario by Industry Growth, Size, Trends and Forecast 2021-2026 | Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei  The Courier

How to install RPM packages on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Today I'll explain why Linux is an excellent choice for creative work.

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The OpenStack community is BIG. From Argentina to Morocco to Israel to Vietnam, we literally span the globe, so it's not surprising that we largely knew what to do to accommodate COVID-19's circumstances. But it still has been a struggle to keep moving forward and adapt while still delivering Ussuri and Victoria, the 21st and 22nd releases of OpenStack.

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In the first three parts of this series, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, and what product managers do. In this fourth article, I'll look at a plethora of methods to differentiate open source software products from their upstream open source projects.

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Adopting DevOps can help an organization transform and speed how its software is delivered, tested, and deployed to production. This is the well-known "DevOps promise" that has led to such a large surge in adoption.

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Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense Controller Driver Coming To Linux 5.12  Phoronix