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Every time you power on your Linux PC, it goes through a series of stages before finally displaying a login screen that prompts for your username or password. There are 4 distinct stages that

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Linux Software Market Outlook 2027 Industry Growth And Competitive Landscape Trends By Organizations – Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle, RedHat, Facebook, DELL, Novell, IBM, Amazon  The Think Curiouser

Kali Linux 2020.4 Released: 6 New Features For Ethical Hackers  Fossbytes

Global Linux Operating System Market Growth Rate and Opportunities By 2025 – With COVID-19 Outbreak, Top Players: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  TechnoWeekly

Google Publishes Latest Linux Core Scheduling Patches So Only Trusted Tasks Share A Core  Phoronix

Google engineer Joel Fernandes sent out the ninth version of their "core scheduling" patches for the Linux kernel that allows for allowing only trusted tasks to run concurrently on the same CPU core -- in cases where Hyper Threading is involved to safeguard the system against the possible security exploits...

Red Hat tunes up RHEL and OpenShift for life on computing's edge  ZDNet

Hackers use: Kali Linux 2020.4 released  Somag News

Why eBPF is the Future of Linux and Cloud Native Networking  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet

Why eBPF is the Future of Linux and Cloud Native Networking  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet

Microsoft Tests Defender for Endpoint Linux EDR Capabilities  MSSP Alert

Ubuntu Web Remix is a Linux distro that puts Firefox front and center (Chrome OS alternative)  Liliputing

Now here is some darn interesting software news from SC20... AMD, which is in the process of acquiring Xilinx, is bringing the Radeon Open eCosystem "ROCm" stack to Xilinx hardware...

Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation  AiThority

Kali Linux 2020.4 released: New default shell, fresh tools, and more!  Help Net Security

Coffee Lake robotics controller to power Indy Autonomous Challenge racers  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux and open source: The biggest issue in 2020  TechRepublic

While Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) support wasn't a focus for the initial Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" graphics cards by AMD engineers, that is fortunately changing for both the RX 5000/6000 series moving forward. With the Radeon RX 6800 series there is at-launch support available with working OpenCL provided by the "ROCr" (runtime) path in their packaged driver. Now that we have looked at the Radeon RX 6800 Linux gaming performance here are some initial OpenCL compute benchmarks between NVIDIA and AMD Radeon on Linux.

Radeon Software for Linux 20.45 is now available as the Radeon RX 6800 series launch driver for Linux systems...

Radeon Software for Linux 20.45 Driver Released With RX 6800 Series Support  Phoronix