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Following yesterday's release of Wine 6.0-RC1 that is kicking off the release process for this annual release of Wine, the Wine-Staging experimental/testing blend of Wine is also updated...

KDE developers have been busy so far in December making improvements from seemingly never-ending Wayland improvements to new features like easier support for accented character input without having to remember key sequences or changing your keyboard layout...

Linux Software Market 2020 Industry Key Players, Trends, Sales, Supply, Demand, Analysis & Forecast to 2026 | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell, RedHat, DELL, Samsung, and Microsoft  Canaan Mountain Herald

ZaReason Linux PC Vendor Closes After More Than A Decade Of Selling Linux Hardware  Phoronix

The KDE Plasma Desktop has a lot to offer—a great desktop, a flexible file manager, and tightly integrated applications. However, it can be easy to overlook its default text editors, one of which is Kate. On December 14, 2020, Kate turns 20 years old, and in its two decades of development, it has achieved a perfect balance between a straightforward editor and a modest Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

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Wasmer is one of the leading software solutions aiming to bring WebAssembly (WASM) to the desktop rather than largely isolated to the web browser as is the case now. Wasmer aims to allow WASM programs anywhere and on any client while quickly closing in on its 1.0 release...

Wasmer 1.0 Beta Released For Running WebAssembly Code Anywhere  Phoronix

While the Linux kernel has supported Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR) for a decade and a half in varying forms, it hasn't been supported for all hardware targets. Only in 2021 is the mainline Linux kernel seeing KASLR working for the MIPS-based Loongson64 platform...

Loongson64 Finally Seeing KASLR With Mainline Linux 5.11 Kernel  Phoronix

As expected, the first release candidate of Wine 6.0 is now available for testing for this annual update to Wine for running Windows programs and games on Linux and other platforms...

Raspberry Pi OS Switches To PulseAudio, Updated Chromium  Phoronix

Just in time for any holiday Raspberry Pi purchases, an updated Raspberry Pi OS is available today for the Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for these budget ARM SBCs...

Google today is announcing the open-sourcing of Atheris, a Python fuzzer they developed internally for automatically finding bugs within Python code and native extensions...

System76 to Launch Their First AMD-Only “Pangolin” Linux Laptop  LXer

2020: State of Linux desktop today  guru3d.com

Dual-GbE router board offers PoE, 802.11ax, and an M.2 slot  LinuxGizmos.com

Dual-GbE router board offers PoE, 802.11ax, and an M.2 slot  LinuxGizmos.com

Another Look At The Performance Impact To IBM's POWER9 L1d Flushing Change  Phoronix

Last week I provided some benchmarks looking at the IBM POWER9 mitigation for the L1 data cache needing to be flushed upon entering the kernel and on user accesses due to a recently disclosed vulnerability. POWER9 allows speculatively operating on validated data in the L1 cache, but when it comes to incompletely validated data paired with other side channels it could lead to local users potentially obtaining improper access to data in the L1 data cache. When benchmarking the impact on a POWER9 4c/16t CPU the overall impact was fairly modest while since then I fired up some benchmarks as well on a large POWER9 server with 44 cores / 176 threads to see the performance impact of this default Linux kernel change.

Tech : How to install Windows 10 on an Apple M1 or Linux distro  Explica