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There has been some early success geting Ubuntu up and running on Apple's M1 ARM hardware with using the Apple Hypervisor Framework but it looks like a much better experience is on the way with the forthcoming Parallels Desktop for Apple Silicon...

Ubuntu Developers Get it Up And Running On Apple's M1 With Early Parallels Desktop Build  Phoronix

Where Fedora fits in the new Red Hat/CentOS Stream Linux world  ZDNet

AMD noted that EPYC Milan "Zen 3" server processors would be shipping to select customers this quarter ahead of the formal launch in Q1. That's accurate with at least one enterprise now making public inquiries over Linux kernel versions for the EPYC 7003 series. The recent Linux 5.10 kernel debut being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release is coming just in time for those users...

Linux 5.10 As An LTS Kernel Comes Just In Time For AMD EPYC "Milan"  Phoronix

Dent Introduces Industry's First End-to-End Networking Stack Designed for the Modern Distributed Enterprise Edge and Powered by Linux  AiThority

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 6.0 ahead of the stable release expected in January...

With no new X.Org Server releases on the horizon but Red Hat / Fedora wanting to ship updated XWayland support that is developed as part of the X.Org Server code-base, Red Hat engineers are now stepping up to carry out such XWayland-only releases derived from the same source tree but stripping out the code not relevant to XWayland support...

Linux containers can minimize cross-domain security headaches  Defense Systems

In recent years Red Hat engineers have been contributing to WebRTC in Chromium and related projects as part of Wayland screen sharing support that also works with the likes of PipeWire and XDG-Desktop-Portal. Looking forward to 2021, more WebRTC improvements in Chromium/Chrome are on the way...

The OpenRISC and RISC-V processor architecture updates have both been submitted for the ongoing Linux 5.11 merge window...

OpenRISC + RISC-V Improvements Come For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Following last week's release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has now released Qt Creator 4.14 and Qt Design Studio 2.0 as accompanying assets...

The ACPI / power management and thermal pull requests were all sent out and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 5.11 development...

Intel Workload Hints, Zen RAPL PowerCap + Other Power/Thermal Changes For Linux 5.11  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Global Market Growth, Size, Supply, Outlook, Regional Trends and 2027  Fresno Observer

IAR Systems Enables Linux-Based Continuous Integration and Automated Workflows for RISC-V  AiThority

Global Linux Operating System Market Insights on Trends, Application, Types and Users Analysis 2020-2026  LionLowdown

How to install Spotify client on Kali Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It's been seven years since Intel last provided a stable release of their "xf86-video-intel" X.Org driver and nearly six years to the day since they even provided their last development snapshot of what was to be xf86-video-intel 3.0. But there still are the occasional commits to this Intel DDX driver such as this week enabling the "TearFree" functionality by default...