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Linux Software Market 2020 Industry Chain Structure and Production Value by Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, RedHat, Microsoft, Samsung, DELL, Google  The Think Curiouser

Written PHP, Drupal is a free and opensource content management system (CMS) that enables you to create powerful and elegant blogs or websites. It ships with preinstalled themes, widgets, and other out-of-the-box features that

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Open Invention Network open-source, non-aggression patents now covers Android and exFAT.  ZDNet

New Intel and AMD hardware support headline the performance events work for Linux 5.10 as part of the "perf" subsystem...

Linux 5.10 To Make One Of Its Pseudo Random Number Generators Less Predictable  Phoronix

The Linux kernel's prandom_u32() interface for providing pseudo-random number generation is used heavily by the kernel's networking code but that PRNG output can be figured out rather predictably. Thus lining up for Linux 5.10 is a new prandom_u32 implementation...

The Btrfs file-system is seeing some promising additions with Linux 5.10...

Btrfs With Linux 5.10 Brings Some Sizable FSync Performance Improvements  Phoronix

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

After last week exploring the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Linux GPU compute performance for this Ampere graphics card along with the Blender 2.90 performance, today is a look at the Linux gaming performance for the RTX 3080 both for native games as well as those Windows games running on Linux via Steam Play (Proton).

Quick Tutorial on How to Use Shell Scripting in Linux: Coin Toss App  Linux Journal

As part of my role as a principal communication strategist at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends. Here are some of my and their favorite articles from that update.

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Universal USB Installer 1.9.9.4  Neowin

OpenCV as the widely-used, real-time computer vision library is out this week with version 4.5 as a big feature release...

A new kernel feature sent in today for the Linux 5.10 merge window is static calls, which can be helpful in cases where Retpolines (return trampolines) are currently used as part of protections against speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

We've made some recent updates to Opensource.com that impact account registration, user profiles, and how readers comment on articles. These new and modified processes should ensure a more secure and safe website and experience for you.

Over the last few weeks, we've been really busy updating and testing these new features. One is our new account creation process to reduce spam. We deployed these changes to our production environment earlier today.

Here is a more detailed account of all of the changes we've made.

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Gaming system raises ante with Tiger Lake CPU  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Operating System Market is Anticipated to Attain 18.5% CAGR by 2023 | Linux Operating System Market Size, Growth, Key Players Analysis and Opportunities  Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Linux Operating System Market is Anticipated to Attain 18.5% CAGR by 2023 | Linux Operating System Market Size, Growth, Key Players Analysis and Opportunities - Press Release  Digital Journal

Ingo Molnar as usual is quite quick in submitting his changes for the new kernel merge window in the areas he oversees. With the scheduler changes for Linux 5.10 there are some changes worth mentioning...