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OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features  Ars Technica

OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features  Ars Technica

NVIDIA is working on allowing their proprietary driver to support passing buffers as DMA-BUF. In turn this should allow for better supporting their proprietary driver on Wayland compared to the EGLStreams mess...

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Dynamics, Production, Supply and Demand Forecast covered in the Latest Research Available at TMR  Exchange 99

How to Avoid Locking Yourself Out of Linux  Medium

Linux Foundation's entry-level IT administrator certification is open for enrollment  ZDNet

Xe HP is Intel's discrete GPU aiming to compete against the latest-generation AMD and NVIDIA compute accelerators. Xe HP isn't scheduled to reach general availability until well into 2021 while now as they begin ramping up their sampling of Xe HP to potential customers, the Linux open-source driver support is preparing to roll-out...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver Support For Xe HP As "Gen12.5"  Phoronix

Hector Martin Guarantees To Deliver Linux To the M1 Chip  Editorials 360

Back in July SUSE announced its intention to acquire Rancher Labs. That deal has now closed for acquiring the Kubernetes focused cloud company...

Best VPN service in 2020: Safe and fast don't come for free  ZDNet

Best VPN service in 2020: Safe and fast don't come for free  ZDNet

How to rebalance your btrfs filesystem on your Linux data center servers  TechRepublic

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered two more security issues with the aging X.Org Server that as we roll into 2021 is still powering most of the Linux desktops...

Two More X.Org Server Security Advisories Issued - Possible Privilege Escalation  Phoronix

How to Add Third-Party Repositories in Fedora and Get Access to a Huge Number of Additional Software  It's FOSS

Global Linux Software 2020 Market Key Players - Google, Samsung, Twitter, Amazon, IBM, Facebook, RedHat, Oracle, DELL, Novell, Microsoft - Analysis And Forecast To 2026  Industry Today

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Linux Performance Exceeds The RTX 2080 SUPER - Costs Just $399 USD Review  Phoronix

NVIDIA tomorrow is launching the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with their Founder's Edition card and AIB variants are also expected. For about $400 USD, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti offers performance comparable or slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and especially much stronger performance for compute and RTX workloads. With the review embargo now lifted a day ahead of the launch, here are the initial Linux benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti under Ubuntu Linux.

Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák has just merged one of his largest set of optimizations in recent times: 2~5x faster performance for SPECViewPerf...