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In the last article in this series about home automation, I started digging into Home Assistant. I set up a Zigbee integration with a Sonoff Zigbee Bridge and installed a few add-ons, including Node-RED, File Editor, Mosquitto broker, and Samba. I wrapped up by walking through Node-RED's configuration, which I will use heavily later on in this series.

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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 share with you why Linux is a great choice for your workday.

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Taking on the might of Google Analytics may seem like a big challenge. In fact, you could say it doesn't sound plausible… But that's exactly what Plausible.io has done with great success, signing up thousands of new users since 2018.

Plausible's co-founders Uku Taht and Marko Saric recently appeared on The Craft of Open Source podcast to talk about the project and how they:

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When it comes to open-source cloud storage software for Linux, there is a huge number of available options. ownCloud, Seafile, and Pydio are just a few of them. However, if you pay a lot

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Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver Adds More Adreno Support, Speedbin Capability For Linux 5.12  Phoronix

The MSM Direct Rendering Manager driver originally developed as part of the Freedreno effort for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics on Linux while now supported by the likes of Google and Qualcomm's Code Aurora engineers has some notable changes in store for the next Linux kernel cycle...

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

It's 2021 And The Linux Kernel's Floppy Driver Is Still Seeing The Occasional Patch  Phoronix

For those looking for something more interesting than the Super Bowl today, the seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 5.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 5.11-rc7 Arrives - Time For The Weekly Celebration Testing The New Kernel  Phoronix

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS available with Linux 5.8 and more news  Explica

GNU/Linux  Hackaday

Holding A Mirror Up In Front Of GNU/Linux  Hackaday

Linux 5.12 To Move Ahead In Phasing Out Support For Outdated Intel MIDs  Phoronix

More than a decade ago Intel was very excited about MIDs as "Mobile Internet Devices" with their early Menlow and Moorestown platforms. Intel's MID plays ultimately were unsuccessful in the long-term and the MID functionality ultimately evolved into smartphones and tablets. In 2021, the Intel MID support is being gutted from the Linux kernel...

While AMD has been crushing it when it comes to Linux performance and generally delivering good launch-day support, the one area many Linux/open-source advocates have been eager and hopeful to see change is around Coreboot support and ideally open-source firmware support such as by re-opening AGESA. Both inside and outside of AMD there continues being work in this direction...

2021 and Beyond: Linux Software Market Research Report | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, and Microsoft – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has continued pushing forward in 2021. The range of their work so far is quite diverse from finally landing SD/MMC driver support to at the same time being a bit more forward-looking and already working on 5-level paging support to handle terabytes of system RAM...

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2021 Analysis by Latest COVID19/CORONA Virus Impact with Market Positioning of Key Vendors: Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship, Changhong, etc. | InForGrowth  The Bisouv Network