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At the beginning of August we reported on Google engineers proposing the Machine Function Splitter to LLVM as a means of making binaries up to a few percent faster thanks to this code generation optimization pass for splitting code functions into hot and cold portions. That work has now been merged into LLVM 12.0 with very promising results...

As noted this weekend, Lenovo has begun offering Fedora pre-loaded on their systems beginning with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 laptop. Red Hat's Christian Schaller who serves as the senior manager for desktop chimed in with some additional thoughts and details on this achievement...

Many Linux Developers Are Ecstatic Over Fedora On Lenovo Systems  Phoronix

Many Linux Developers Are Ecstatic Over Fedora On Lenovo Systems  Phoronix

AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability  SiliconANGLE

Potential impact of coronavirus outbreak on Linux Operating System Market By Top Leading Players – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  Scientect

NVIDIA 450 Series Linux Driver OpenCL/CUDA/OptiX Performance On Pascal/Turing  Phoronix

With last week having delivered some current NVIDIA Linux gaming performance metrics ahead of the anticipated GeForce RTX 3000 "Ampere" series launch this week, here are some fresh compute metrics for those interested.

Linux Software Market Segmentation, Analysis by Recent Trends, Development & Growth by Regions | Google, Twitter, Facebook  Bulletin Line

Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers  idk.dev

Latest trends & growing demand of MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Leading Players Expected to Witness the Highest Growth 2026 | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs  The Scarlet

Blender 2.90 is out as a huge feature update to this widely-used, cross-platform and open-source 3D modeling solution...

How to install Seafile Server on WSL- Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?  Hackaday

Azure Arc for a Hybrid World  Virtualization Review

Aleksa Sarai of SUSE and Christian Brauner of Canonical presented at last week's Linux Plumbers Conference with a call for more extensible system calls moving forward in aiming to enhance the Linux user-space API...

Canonical + SUSE Engineers Call For More Extensible Linux System Calls Moving Forward  Phoronix

PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition coming soon for $149 and up (Linux smartphone)  Liliputing

GIMP fork for Windows, Linux, and macOS now looks a bit more like Photoshop  Explica

The Next PinePhone Community Edition Will Feature Manjaro Linux  Fossbytes