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LLVM 12.0 was supposed to ship at the start of March but now more than one month later and some 6,660+ commits to LLVM 13.0 already, LLVM 12.0 has not yet shipped but on Wednesday 12.0.0-rc5 was issued...

Global Linux Operating System Market 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  SoccerNurds

At the end of March the release candidate phase began for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.1 open-source ZFS file-system on Linux and FreeBSD systems. The second release candidate is now available for this noteworthy OpenZFS update...

IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 brings COBOL capabilities to Linux – OSnews  OS News

This quarter's Mesa 21.1 feature release will continue to offer more improvements for Lavapipe, the CPU-based software Vulkan implementation. The latest today is Vulkan 1.1 now being advertised...

Sway 1.6 is official today as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Mesa 21.0.2 is out today as the latest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa3D open-source Vulkan/OpenGL drivers...

MXLinux is the most downloaded Linux desktop distribution, and now I know why  TechRepublic

Here is a look at the AVX / AVX2 / AVX-512 performance on the Intel Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" when building a set of relevant open-source benchmarks limited to AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 caps each time while also monitoring the CPU package power consumption during the tests for looking at the performance-per-Watt in providing some fresh reference metrics over AVX-512 on Linux with the latest Intel "Rocket Lake" processors.

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Professional Survey 2021 by Manufacturers, Share, Growth, Trends, Types and Applications, Forecast to 2028 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

Linux Operating System Market Insights, Growth Forecast to 2026  Business-newsupdate.com

Not only is the Linux kernel moving to allow Rust code to be optionally used within the kernel, but Google is now allowing Rust code to be used for system programming work on Android's low-level operating system components too...

How to Easily Transfer Files between Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone  How-To Geek

The official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver, AMDVLK, is out today with its first update of the new quarter...

In the open-source world there can even be much fragmentation and multiple implementations around something as central as parsing of EDID blobs for monitor (display) information and that's only been made worse by the growing number of Wayland compositors...

Wayland Is Driving Fragmentation Around EDID Parsing - A Call To Fix That  Phoronix

Microsoft previews its open source Java distribution for Windows, macOS and Linux — Microsoft Build of OpenJDK  BetaNews

'Kubernetes is the next Linux': SUSE's Rob Knight on containerisation  TechCentral

The latest area being worked on with VirtIO for para-virtualized drivers for Linux with a focus on KVM is Bluetooth support...

VirtIO Bluetooth Driver On The Way To The Linux Kernel  Phoronix