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Firefox 80.0 is now available. There isn't too much to get excited about with Firefox 80, but at least some changes on the developer front...

Firefox 80 Available With VA-API On X11, WebGL Parallel Shader Compile Support  Phoronix

Global Linux Operating System Industry  Yahoo Finance

Global Linux Operating System Industry  Benzinga

Global Linux Operating System Industry  GlobeNewswire

Enough with the Linux security FUD  ZDNet

Logging into a Linux System with a Microsoft 365 Password  Security Boulevard

DigitalOcean & Others Still Working On Core Scheduling To Make Hyper Threading Safer  Phoronix

With vulnerabilities like L1TF and Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) prominently showing the insecurities of Intel Hyper Threading, DigitalOcean and other organizations continue spearheading a core scheduling implementation for Linux that could allow HT to remain enabled but with reducing the security risk...

11 ways to list and sort files on Linux  Network World

How to enable Linux apps on Chrome OS  AndroidGuys

When the Zink Gallium3D driver running OpenGL over Vulkan was first introduced in 2018 and since one of the main blockers besides the performance overhead has been the limited OpenGL 2/3 support. The GL3/GL4 support has been improving with time for Zink and when making use of the latest out-of-tree patches is even possible to get OpenGL 4.6 running over Vulkan with Zink!..

Saying hello from my new system with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS preinstalled - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Hack the box swagshop  GopherHole.com

Global Linux Operating System Market Overview includes Industry Specifications and Applications Forecast to 2025 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  The Daily Chronicle

As part of the virtual SIGGRAPH20, Intel is using the opportunity to talk up their ray-tracing efforts...

Linux Has A Hardware Problem And We Need To Solve It  Forbes

Smart vision system combines 8th Gen UP Xtreme with AOTU.AI's BrainFrame software  LinuxGizmos.com

Proposed last summer by Valve and Collabora developers were extending the Linux kernel's futex system call to allow for more optimal thread pool synchronization and paired with Wine/Proton work to better match the semantics of Windows. That then spun into creating a new system call, futex2. With the recently closed Linux 5.9 merge window the new futex2 system call didn't land, but the work is still being pursued...

FUTEX2 Still Being Worked On For Benefiting Linux Gaming & Much More  Phoronix