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Linux Software Market Trend, COVID-19 Impact, Forecast 2026| Top Players in the Market Include: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, Microsoft  TechnoWeekly

Currently when directly assigning I/O devices to virtual machines the guest memory needs to be statically pinned unless using a vIOMMU setup in which case it does not but there are performance implications there as well. Intel engineers though have been working on a virtual IOMMU implementation with DMA buffer tracking to overcome these limitations...

New Ransomware Threat Jumps From Windows To Linux—What You Need To Know  Forbes

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Analysis by Latest COVID19/CORONA Virus Impact with Market Positioning of Key Vendors: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, etc. | InForGrowth  Eurowire

Intel didn't manage to get their Software Guard Extensions (SGX) support merged for the current Linux 5.10 LTS kernel cycle and it's still up in the air if it will be pulled in the near-term for providing the mainline kernel with SGX enclaves support...

Intel Sends Out Linux Support For SGX Enclaves Support A 40th Time  Phoronix

In the first article of this series, I examined the nature of the innovation process in great detail. I also discussed some sources of resistance to it.

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Linux Operating System Market 2020: Potential growth, attractive valuation make it is a long-term investment | Know the COVID19 Impact | Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, etc. | InForGrowth  PRnews Leader

The first week of November brought numerous improvements to the KDE stack...

Cyberattackers Now Additionally Make Linux Variations of Their Ransomware  Editorials 360

The recently proposed new TTM memory management page allocator that can yield 3~5x faster page allocation as tested with the AMDGPU kernel driver will be coming for Linux 5.11...

New TTM Allocator For AMDGPU Graphics Memory Landing With Linux 5.11  Phoronix

humhub installation on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS- Open source social network - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Experimental Linux Patches Allow User-Space Peer-To-Peer DMA Between NVMe Drives  Phoronix

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on friday allow peer-to-peer DMA (P2PDMA) transfers between NVMe drives using existing O_DIRECT operations or the NVMe pass-through interface from user-space...

For those sticking to stable releases of Mesa3D there is Mesa 20.2.2 now available as the latest point release...

Following yesterday's Wine 5.21 release is now an adjoining Wine-Staging update that carries over 700 patches on top of it for testing purposes...

New Wasmtime and Wasmer releases appeared this week for advancing WebAssembly on the desktop...

I was introduced to open source by my husband, a long-term Unix/Linux user. When he encouraged me to attend the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG), a local meetup in the Raleigh, NC, area, I was quite intimidated, as I was one of a handful of women in attendance. But the more I learned about open source, the more intrigued I became.

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For fans of the Arch Linux distribution their Arch Conf 2020 virtual presentations have all been posted now for your enjoyment...