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Pop open the champagne as the in-development Linux 5.12 kernel will be able to support link-time optimizations (LTO) in conjunction with the LLVM Clang compiler on not only AArch64 (64-bit ARM) but also x86_64...

Lessons Learned From the SolarWinds Supply Chain Hack  TechNewsWorld

Global Linux Software Market Report: Highlighting Major Drivers and Key Trends 2021- 2026 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network

After a two year hiatus on the patches, VMware's Nadav Amit has gotten back to working on current TLB flushing support for the Linux kernel in yielding a small but measurable performance improvement...

VMware Engineer Revises Work On Concurrent TLB Flushes For Linux  Phoronix

In yesterday's Linux distribution benchmark comparison on a Ryzen 9 5900X, you may have noticed some of the Ubuntu 21.04 development benchmarks coming in slower than Ubuntu 20.10 but overall a tight race. That is something I've seen now on other systems too -- such as these results to pass along today from an Intel notebook with the latest Ubuntu 20.10 vs. 21.04 development tests...

Nvidia Linux drivers causing random hard crashes and now a major security risk still not fixed after 5+ months  Linux Journal

Thanks to Google engineers the Linux 5.12 kernel is providing punctual support for eMMC inline encryption that is being ratified with a forthcoming specification update and already being found within some mobile hardware...

How to Audit and Test for Sudo's CVE-2021-3156 with LogRhythm  Security Boulevard

Firefox 86.0 is out today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser that continues to work on ramping up its security offerings...

Global Linux Computer Market Report: Highlighting Major Drivers and Key Trends 2021- 2026  NY Market Reports

The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has now enabled displayable DCC (Delta Color Compression) support that should yield some performance benefit while there still is more work to be completed...

The HID subsystem updates were sent in this morning for the ongoing Linux 5.12 merge window...

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2: The GUI features developers have been asking for  TechRepublic

Libinput 1.17 is out as the newest version of this Wayland/X.Org input handling library for the Linux desktop...

Selectively reusing commands on Linux  Network World

GNOME 40 beta is coming together with the GNOME Shell and Mutter components having seen new releases on Monday...

What is the KDE Editor in Linux?  Technotification

Global Linux Operating System Market Business Growth Strategies and Key Players Insights 2021-2027 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

How to install Cockpit Server manager on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout  H2S Media