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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary highlighting the desktop project's changes for the week. WebRTC support with the screencast code in Plasma now works on Wayland, but the Plasma Wayland changes are lighter than we've seen in recent weeks. Instead the emphasis this week seems to have been on enhancing KDE's usability...

Maple Tree "RFC" Patches Sent Out As New Data Structure To Help With Linux Performance  Phoronix

Announced earlier this year by Micron was the HSE open-source storage engine aimed for low-latency, speed-performance on modern SSD storage and ideal for powering the likes of NoSQL databases. In squeezing out one more major release before year's end, HSE 1.9 was released on Friday...

The GNU ed command is a line editor. It’s considered the standard Unix text editor because it was the very first text editor for Unix, and so it was (and generally still is) available on any POSIX system. In some ways, it’s easy to tell that it was the first because, in many ways, it’s extremely rudimentary. Unlike most other text editors, it doesn’t open in a window or screen of its own, and in fact, by default, it doesn’t even prompt the user for input. On the other hand, its near lack of any interface can also be a strength.

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Oracle Linux Looking To Attract CentOS Users Looking For Alternatives  Phoronix

Throughout much of 2020, virtual meetings have been a major part of our lives. This is new for many of us—while we may have participated in webinars or other virtual meetings on occasion, we have never relied on our webcams for doing our day-to-day work.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is playable on Linux right now, but it's not the best  TweakTown

For over the past year there has been work on the new "Maple Tree" data structure led by Oracle for the Linux kernel and this week marked the patches being sent out in "request for comments" (RFC) form with the aim still on helping the kernel performance...

Garuda Linux Review: Pure Arch With GUI Tools and Good Looks  It's FOSS

IT System Administrator (Linux & NextCloud) (f/m/d)  Nature.com

Embedded Linux Market 2020: Industry Growth, Competitive Analysis, Future Prospe  News.MarketSizeForecasters.com

Following last week's Wine 6.0-RC1 release that marked the feature freeze and start of the release process for the annual stable Wine release, Wine 6.0-RC2 is out today with the latest assortment of fixes...

Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list  Ars Technica

Just one week shy of one year since CUPS founder Michael Sweet left Apple, which in turn seemingly led to the downfall of CUPS, PAPPL 1.0 has been released as his modern alternative printer application framework...

Global Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Forecast to 2026 by Recent Trends, Development and Regional Growth Overview  International Debt Observatory

Goodbye CentOS, hello Rocky Linux  ZDNet

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance: Windows Looks Surprisingly Good This Time  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X On Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance: Windows Looks Surprisingly Good This Time  Phoronix

For those curious how the AMD Zen 3 performance is looking between Windows and Linux, here are the first round of benchmarks with a Ryzen 9 5900X system.

KDE Plasma users will hopefully be seeing the KWin Wayland compositor perform better and more reliably in 2021...