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Given the AArch64 laptops coming to market and continuing popularity around ARM64 SBCs for Linux desktop use-cases, Fedora's KDE special interest group is proposing Fedora KDE Plasma edition also be spun for the 64-bit ARM architecture...

Linux 5.10-rc1 breaks away from a decade-old feature that caused security flaws and shifts the year 2038 problem to the year 2486 via an XFS timestamp setting  re:Jerusalem

The first release candidate of systemd 247 is now available for testing and it's a huge feature release...

Module and dev kit run Linux on QCS610 camera SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

How to Add a Simple Progress Bar in Shell Script  Linux Journal

Linux Software Market Size 2020 By Product Types, End-Users, Regional Outlook, Growth, Trends And Forecast To 2027 | Market Research Intellect  PRnews Leader

LLVM has merged an experimental MLIR-based SPIR-V CPU runner that the developers are working towards being able to handle CPU-based execution of GPU kernels...

Coffee Lake 3.5-inch SBC has up to three GbE ports  LinuxGizmos.com

Percepio Releases Tracealyzer Visual Trace Diagnostics Solution Version 4.4 with Support for Embedded Linux  Embedded Computing Design

Microsoft on Linux: It's a lot easier than you think  OnMSFT

What Linux needs to make it a better mobile desktop  TechRepublic

While there had been much speculation that Linux 5.9 would be the kernel's next long-term support release based on past timing, Linux 5.10 is going to be the LTS release...

Debian is looking for the community to partake in the quick voting process around selecting the default artwork for the upcoming Debian 11 "Bullseye" release...

Linux 5.10 is a bigger kernel release than expected and sees the removal of setf_fs()  BetaNews

Linux 5.10 Is The Next LTS Kernel  Phoronix

Global Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Market 2020 Latest Innovation – Intel, Zenlayer, Linux, Huawei  re:Jerusalem

Torvalds hails the removal of a relic from Linux's early days  Developer Tech

FRR: The Most Popular Network Router You’ve Never Heard Of  The Next Platform

Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drives are now available from Internet retailers. For those wondering how these SSDs compare with EXT4 under Linux against other PCIe 4.0/3.0 drives, here are a variety of benchmarks.