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Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"  Phoronix

Linux 5.11-rc2 Released - It's Tiny Due To Developers Offline With "Holiday Things"  Phoronix

There's nothing quite like some fun holiday-weekend reading as a fiery mailing list post by Linus Torvalds. The Linux creator is out with one of his classical messages, which this time is arguing over the importance of ECC memory and his opinion on how Intel's "bad policies" and market segmentation have made ECC memory less widespread...

Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel's "Bad Policies" Over ECC  Phoronix

New Golang Worm Targets Windows And Linux Systems To Mine Monero  Cyber Security News

Dav1d 0.8 was released this weekend (and subsequently 0.8.1 too) as the latest major release for this CPU-based AV1 decoder hosted by the VideoLAN project. Dav1d continues to be about offering the best AV1 decode speed and with the v0.8 series are even faster results -- so here are some of our initial data points as well from some weekend benchmarking...

BleachBit 4.2.0  Neowin

In ending out a strong year for OpenBenchmarking.org growth in 2020, there were also many test profile updates and some new test profiles (benchmarks) that were made available in December for Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org users...

LLVM has added support for PowerPC LE as its newest target...

The numbers Steam posted on New Year's Day for the December 2020 Linux gaming marketshare showed a drop of 0.33% down to just 0.57%. That is a rather large drop but now Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage wise but not as bad as originally reported...

Valve Revises Steam's December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74%  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's Wine 6.0-RC5 test release is an updated Wine-Staging build that adds nearly 800 patches atop the upstream code-base for experimental/testing features...

Fedora is preparing to ship the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel as a stable release update to those on Fedora 32 and newer...

DTPM "Avoid Burning Yourself" Framework Diverted From Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Fedora Is Looking For Help Testing Linux 5.10 Ahead Of Shipping That LTS Kernel Update  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Growth Factors, And Regional Analysis by Forecast To 2023  LionLowdown

All Things Open, a technology conference held in October every year, is always a wonderful learning experience. For 2020, the conference shifted to an online format, which had its ups and downs. The chance encounters with acquaintances in the hallways and having lunch with friends were noticeably absent, but the learning experience was as good as always. Honestly, in some ways, it was better because everyone got a front-row seat, and there were no standing-room-only talks.

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If we define "work" as any contribution that receives any kind of reward, then work is—and always has been—one of the major factors that define who we are. It is a major aspect of our lives. Throughout our work (whatever that may be for us), we meet friends, identify sources of intellectual stimulation and emotional fulfillment, grow, and feel at our most creative and innovative. To our families, friends, communities and societies, work is extremely important. We should not take work—or its role in our lives—lightly or for granted.

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Linux Operating System Market 2019 Global Applications, Industry Size, Challenges, Development, Opportunities, Future Growth and Trends by Forecast to 2023 | Effects of COVID-19  LionLowdown

Yesterday I wrote about the DTPM framework being sent in for Linux 5.11 but ultimately Linus Torvalds has decided not to accept it out of the merge window...