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Linux Gets Official PS5 DualSense Controller Driver | Game Rant  GameRant

The HAMMER2 file-system that has been used by default on DragonFlyBSD for some time has lacked multi-volumes support compared to its former HAMMER1 file-system. But as of this weekend in the latest Git development code, HAMMER2 now has initial support for multiple volumes...

Arcan Focuses In On Surpassing Feature Parity With X.Org, Releases Durden 0.6 Desktop  Phoronix

Huawei's first Kirin-powered laptop's specs leak - comments  GSMArena.com

Huawei's HarmonyOS 2.0 beta is based on Android's framework - comments  GSMArena.com

Linux Operating System Market Demand & SWOT Analysis by 2026 with Impact of COVID19 and Post COVID19 Opporttunities and Growth Drivers  Farming Sector

While being released one day late due to Christmas, Wine 6.0-RC4 is out. This is the latest weekly test candidate of the forthcoming Wine 6.0 as the annual stable release due out in January for this leading software to run Windows programs/games on Linux, macOS, and the BSDs...

Linux 5.10.3 is out today as a post-Christmas stable release update...

Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames  Phoronix

Linux 5.10.3 Released - Fixes Possibility Of Duplicate Encrypted Filenames  Phoronix

Even with Christmas week there has been a lot of improvements still happening in the KDE world...

Looking for someone to run a benchmark test for me on a 1-4x 980 Pros  HardForum

Sony releases new PS5 controller driver – supports Linux system  Gizchina.com

One of the pleasant kernel surprises in 2020 was Paragon Software looking to upstream their previously commercial NTFS driver. This driver offers read-write support and more advanced capabilities than the current read-focused NTFS driver presently in the mainline kernel and better off than the other FUSE-based driver. This driver hasn't been mainlined yet but Paragon published new patches on Christmas...

Paragon Publishes Latest NTFS File-System Patches For Linux  Phoronix

LibreOffice has various "AVMedia" back-ends for supporting the playback of audio and video within the open-source office suite with GStreamer and other platform-specific options. LibreOffice also supported a VLC back-end for audio/video playback but after years of that code being experimental and not maintained, it's now been eliminated...

How to download Oracle Linux latest ISO file without signing up  H2S Media

Many Linux distributions bundle Vim as their default text editor. This appeals to many longtime Linux users, and those who don’t like it can change it promptly after install anyway. Vim is a funny editor, though, as it’s one of the few that opens to a mode that doesn’t permit text entry. That’s a puzzling choice for any user, and it’s confusing for a new one.

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Throughout this past year, we've shared top open source news to keep everyone updated on what's happening in the world of open source. In case you missed any of the headlines, catch up on 10 of the open source news events that grabbed our readers' attention in 2020.

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Adding to the open-source Christmas excitement this year was the release of GIMP 2.99.4 that puts this image editor one step closer to the long-awaited GIMP 3.0...