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FreeBSD has long supported a "nosymfollow" mount option to prevent following of symlinks on mounted file-systems while now the mainline Linux kernel is adding a similar security defense...

Linux 5.10 Adds "nosymfollow" Mount Option Security Defense  Phoronix

For the Intel Tiger Lake Linux benchmarking thus far with the Core i7 1165G7 on the Dell XPS 13 9310 it's primarily been compared against the Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen 7 4700U on the AMD side since those are the only Renoir units within my possession. But a Phoronix reader recently provided me with remote access to his Lenovo ThinkPad X13 with Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U (8 cores / 16 threads) for seeing how the Tiger Lake performance compares against that higher-end SKU...

GDB 10.1 is now shipping as a big update to the GNU Debugger...

Blast from the past: "Rastasoft" - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

KDE developers remain very busy this autumn working on fixes for the recently released Plasma 5.20 and related software...

Linux Operating System Market 2020 Predictable to Witness Sustainable Evolution with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE, Manjaro  Eurowire

Linux Operating System Market to See Huge Growth by 2026 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  PRnews Leader

Since 2012 there has been a quirk in the Linux kernel to disable/override using ACPI _PSD data on all AMD processors as a workaround in turn for Windows-specific behavior that clashes with the semantics of the Linux ACPI CPUFreq driver for CPU frequency scaling. With AMD Zen 3 this quirk is no longer needed to behave correctly and thus Linux 5.10 is going to drop this eight year old quirk on Zen 3 and newer...

Linux Gets Fix For AMD Zen 3 CPU Frequency Handling Stemming From 8 Year Old Workaround  Phoronix

Building off the Friday release of Wine 5.20, a new Wine-Staging release is now available that is carrying more than 750 patches atop the upstream code-base that are currently undergoing testing...

Complementing the ARM(64) architecture changes for Linux 5.10 are now the SoC and board updates that are quite interesting this round...

Linux 5.10 Has Initial Support For NVIDIA Orin, DeviceTree For Purism's Librem 5  Phoronix

Linux Software Market Investment Analysis | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  TechnoWeekly

Pop!_OS 20.10 Released: 5 New Features Of Ubuntu-based Linux Distro  Fossbytes

Version 0.23 of the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine was released this week in continuing to focus on being a high performance, open-source JVM...

The EXT4 file-system updates have landed in Linux 5.10 with some notable additions for this mature file-system...

EXT4 Changes Land In Linux 5.10 With Fast Commits, Big Boost For Parallel Writes  Phoronix

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Wine 5.20 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development milestone for this solution to run Windows games and other software on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...