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Looking back through Opensource.com's articles about DevOps in 2020, there was a bit of something for everyone—from people starting the DevOps journey to seasoned DevOps veterans. The articles focused on testing, software methodologies, and DevOps' most important part: the people. Here are the top 10 DevOps articles of 2020.

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Wasmer 1.0 RC1 Released For Running WebAssembly On The Desktop Or Anywhere  Phoronix

It's looking like Wasmer 1.0 will be released early in the new year as the open-source WebAssembly run-time for desktops or to run WASM code anywhere as a "universal runtime" in contexts outside of the web browser...

Sony Releases Official Linux Driver to Support DualSense Controllers  PlayStation LifeStyle

8 Reasons Linux is the Most Used OS for Web Hosting  TechShout!

Well here is a pleasant Christmas surprise... Sony has published a new "hid-playstation" Linux kernel driver for bringing up the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller and will also be used for supporting other PlayStation hardware on Linux...

Linux Computer Market Segmentation and Analysis by Latest Trends, Development and Growth by Trending Regions 2020  Factory Gate

Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PlayStation 5 DualSense Controllers  Phoronix

Happy Holidays As We End Out 2020 Plus One Last Phoronix Premium Special  Phoronix

IAR Adds Continuous Integration Support for RISC-V-Based Linux Automation Workflows  Embedded Computing Design

A few days ago I noted nice AMD EPYC performance improvements with PostgreSQL when running on Linux 5.11 compared to prior kernels. I've confirmed that for even more AMD EPYC servers now that the PostgreSQL uplift is there, but other workloads are unfortunately regressing for both Ryzen and EPYC. Here's the start of an exciting Christmas benchmarking adventure looking at this change with Linux 5.11.....

Linux 5.11 Is Looking Like A Wild And Bumpy Ride On AMD CPUs So Far  Phoronix

How The Gates (Almost) Stole Christmas  Hackaday

Global Linux Software Market Forecast 2020-2029 COVID-19 Impact Analysis | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  NeighborWebSJ

Install Cache-Enhanced Nextcloud Cloud Storage on the Ubuntu Linux Server  thenewstack.io

The past several days FreeBSD has been working to complete its migration from their development being done with Subversion to instead using the Git distributed revision control system as used by most other open-source projects...

A few days ago there was a glibc commit mentioning Intel "LAM" and now the updated Intel documentation sheds more light on this forthcoming processor feature...

Cross-layer attacks: New hacking technique raises DNS cache poisoning, user tracking risk  The Daily Swig

Cross-layer attacks: New hacking technique serves up DNS cache poisoning, user tracking risk  The Daily Swig

As a Christmas gift to font enthusiasts, the FreeType font rasterization engine today merged its SDF renderer...