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While the wiesn (Oktoberfest) was cancelled this year, a few Phoronix readers inquired whether I was going to offer the traditional "Oktoberfest special" sale for Phoronix Premium to help support our daily Linux/open-source news, hardware reviews, and benchmarking during this turbulent year. So, yes, here is our annual Oktoberfest special if you would like to show your support during these COVID times...

2020 "Oktoberfest" Premium Special For Supporting Linux News, Benchmarking  Phoronix

Linux is the OS of choice for all Top 500 supercomputers, here's why  Eastern Mirror

SHADERed as the open-source, cross-platform shader integrated development environment now has a compute shader debugger built-in...

Linux 5.10 will bring a new driver for the Intel MAX10 BMC...

Linux Jargon Buster: What is a Package Manager in Linux?  It's FOSS

Linux Jargon Buster: What is a Package Manager in Linux?  It's FOSS

In this final episode of our three-part interview with Braxton (part of the "Managing with Open Values" series) we discuss the importance of creating a positive environment for teams.

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Linux 5.10 Will Be Able To Hibernate + Resume Much Faster  Phoronix

Linux 5.10 Will Be Able To Hibernate + Resume Much Faster  Phoronix

If you frequently put your system(s) through hibernation cycles, the performance should be much better beginning with the soon-to-start Linux 5.10 cycle...

ZDNet Argues Linux-Primarily based Home windows 'Makes Good Sense'  Editorials 360

EXT4 Has A Big Optimization For Linux 5.10 For File Overwrites  Phoronix

The EXT4 file-system with the upcoming Linux 5.10 kernel has an optimization yielding big benefits for file overwrites in some circumstances...

Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs Spotted In Linux Patches, Aiming A 2022 Launch With Next-Gen Cores & New Process Node  Wccftech

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Will Generate Record Revenue by 2025 | Covid-19 Analysis  The Daily Chronicle

How to use Fedora ISO to create bootable USB drive - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The first patchwork is building up for Intel's "Meteor Lake" on Linux...

Intel updated their programming reference manual this week with some interesting new additions, primarily around user interrupts and the enhanced hardware feedback interface...

KDE developers for more than one year have been working to evolve the default Breeze theme and the work by the KDE Visual Design Group is finally paying off with the initial "Breeze Evolution" changes landing...