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Linux Kernel 5.10 Will be the Next LTS Release and it has Some Exciting Improvements Lined Up  It's FOSS

The Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" series are about seven years old almost to the day and the AMD Linux open-source driver crew is seemingly celebrating by finally adding the few lines of code needed to enable BACO power management...

We are nearly at the end of 2020 and while the pace continues to increase, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate some of the successes of Red Hat's people and their work. In the last four months, several Red Hatters and Red Hat products are being recognized by leading industry publications and organizations for efforts in driving innovation. 

Linux Operating System Market Size & Revenue Analysis | Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Fedora Linux  Aerospace Journal

Here's a smartphone boasting a physical keyboard and it runs Linux  Best gaming pro

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available as the latest feature and bug fix update to the FreeBSD 12 platform ahead of the expected FreeBSD 13.0 release around the end of Q1-2021...

FreeBSD 12.2 Released - Supports Linux In Jailed Environments, Better Hardware Support  Phoronix

Here's a smartphone boasting a physical keyboard and it runs Linux  TechRadar

Open Source Jobs Report Shows More Openings, Fewer Takers  LinuxInsider.com

Cloud/Container Skills Top Open Source Jobs Report  Virtualization Review

Ubuntu 20.10 Delivers Linux Desktop on Raspberry Pi  InfoQ.com

Ubuntu 20.10 Delivers Linux Desktop on Raspberry Pi  InfoQ.com

3.1 pound System76 Galago Pro Linux laptop with Intel Tiger Lake coming soon  Liliputing

TCP Analysis with Wireshark  Linux Journal

Bcachefs has been developed for a half-decade now as the Linux file-system born out of the block cache "bcache" kernel code. Kent Overstreet continues spearheading the work and while it's been quiet in recent months today he sent out a new round of Bcachefs patches for review on the Linux kernel mailing list...

Bcachefs Linux File-System Sent Out For Review With Exciting Feature Progress  Phoronix

Linux 5.10 will be the next long-term support Linux kernel  ZDNet

The Snap packaging / software deployment effort led by Canonical for Ubuntu and other distributions currently relies on XZ compression of the SquashFS-based archives while moving forward they are planning to make use of LZO compression. Snap'ing with LZO will result in faster startup-times at the cost of larger packages...

Best Linux server distributions of 2020  TechRepublic

Landing yesterday within the Rust code-base is the initial version of a Cranelift code generator back-end. By leveraging the Cranelift code generator that is developed as part of the Bytecode Alliance for WebAssembly, Rustc with Cranelift can experince much faster debug builds...