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Canonical has been working on developing a new desktop installer built around Google's Flutter toolkit and they aim to introduce it later this year in Ubuntu 21.10...

The GNU C Library 2.33 release is out today as expected. Exciting with this libc update is HWCAPS in making it easier to load optimized libraries for modern CPUs...

CloudLinux Releases AlmaLinux Beta  Business Wire

Linux Operating System Market to Enjoy 'Explosive Growth' by 2025 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

evince/document viewer in presentation mode - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distro designed for tablets (and maybe phones)  Liliputing

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distro designed for tablets (and maybe phones)  Liliputing

GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 21.04 planning to use Wayland by default with GNOME aside from when running on NVIDIA graphics, you may be wondering about the current performance delta between running GNOME Shell on the X.Org session for Linux gaming versus its quite solid Wayland support. Or, rather, in the case of most games still - piped through XWayland. Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland performance on Ubuntu with the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

What Is a Process in Linux?  MakeUseOf

While Qt 6.0 wasn't even released a full two months ago, the Qt 6.1 feature freeze went into effect this morning in trying to get out this next update sooner...

Linux Software Market Next Big Thing | Major Giants Google, Twitter, Facebook, RedHat – Murphy's Hockey Law  Murphy's Hockey Law

How Sony Forged, Then Squandered, Its Relationship With Linux Users  VICE

How Sony Forged, Then Squandered, Its Relationship With Linux Users  VICE

In the works over the past year for the GNOME desktop environment is dynamic triple buffering when the GPU is running behind in rendering the desktop. In doing so, the GPU utilization should increase and the GPU clock frequencies in turn should ramp up to meet the demand - thereby ideally getting the rendering back on track if prior frames were running late. That triple buffering support has been re-based to the GNOME 40 code-base but still is unlikely to land until the next cycle with GNOME 42...

ESET discovers Kobalos: tiny yet complex Linux threat attacking supercomputers – PCR  PCR-online.biz

Linux Computer Market Size 2021, by Key Players: SEMrush, Bitly, RocketLink, Link-Assistant.Com, Rebrandly, Boost, BuzzStream, Digitalcube Tech, SEOJet.net, Pitchbox, AI Internet Solutions, XEEPP Project  Iran Independent News Service

Linux-based Set Top Box: Market 2021 | Covid-19 Impact | Industry Business Outlook, Revenue, Trends and Forecasts 2026 | Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Coship  Iran Independent News Service

Two years ago patches were posted in working on Wine support for IBM POWER / OpenPOWER hardware. The aim with that enablement has been to run Windows programs on POWER 64-bit hardware via Wine with the related "Hangover" project for handling the cross-architecture difference. The Wine patches for PPC64 have now been revived with hopes of mainlining them now that Wine 6.0 has passed...

Linux provides an amazing desktop experience by default. Although advanced users have the flexibility to choose their own window manager, the day-to-day flow of Gnome is better than ever since the GNOME 3.36 improvements. As a long-time Mac enthusiast turned Linux user, that's huge.

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