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101 essential Google Chrome browser keyboard shortcuts for Mac, PC, and Linux users - Business Insider  Business Insider

Coming as a surprise last week was word of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS read-write driver as a significant improvement over the existing NTFS Linux kernel driver. An updated patch series for that much improved NTFS Linux kernel driver is now available...

Paragon Sends Out Updated NTFS Driver They Want To Mainline For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Lucifer Botnet Now Can Target Linux Devices  BankInfoSecurity.com

AMD engineers responsible for their official Vulkan driver code-base have issued their first updated open-source snapshot in two weeks for AMDVLK fans...

With Linux 5.9 comes the ability to compress the Linux kernel image / initrd with Zstd for yielding faster boot speeds but at a compression ratio between Gzip and XZ/LZMA. Being proposed next with the widespread adoption of Facebook's Zstd is compressing the kernel microcode/firmware files...

Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware  Phoronix

Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware  Phoronix

The Best Emulators for Playing Retro Games on Modern Devices  PCMag

The UBports' Ubuntu Touch crew has been focusing a lot lately on improving their support for the popular, budget-friendly PineTab tablet and PinePhone smartphone. The next OTA release will bring more improvements for fans of these PINE Allwinner-powered devices...

For the past two summers student developer Giuliano Belinassi has been working under Google Summer of Code in working to address GCC parallelization bottlenecks and ultimately a goal of allowing single source files to be split up for compilation in parallel by GCC. In particular, being able to split the compilation of large source files across multiple CPU cores. The latest patches on this "-fparallel-jobs=" was sent out today as we approach the end of GSoC 2020...

GCC "-fparallel-jobs" Sent Out For Compiling Individual Files In Parallel - Up To ~1.9x Speedup  Phoronix

The Chinese-developed C-SKY CPU architecture for 32-bit SoCs and embedded processors could soon see an LLVM back-end to complement the C-SKY support found since GCC 9...

LLVM Backend In Development For China's C-SKY Embedded CPUs  Phoronix

Linux is now available on more Windows 10 versions  TechRadar

1. Linux is now available on more Windows 10 versions  TechRadar
2. Microsoft brings Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to Windows 10 1903 and 1909  ZDNet
3. Microsoft: Older Windows 10 versions now get to run Windows Subsystem for Linux 2  TechRepublic
4. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 support coming to Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser
5. WSL2 Support Is Now Coming to Windows 10 v1909 and v1903  Wccftech
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Linux Computer Market 2020 |Global Industry Analysis By Trends, Size, Share, Company Overview, Growth And Forecast By 2026| Latest Research Report By Industry Growth Insights  StartupNG

Linux Software Market SWOT Analysis including key players Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM  The News Brok

Proposed last year for Fedora 32 was aiming to make it easier to swap out GCC for other alternate compilers (like Clang) by using the update-alternatives functionality on Fedora for handling the /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/c++ symbolic links. That work was deferred to Fedora 33 as it wasn't completed in time while now it's been deferred yet again to Fedora 34 next year...

Bonobo WS: System76 Unveils Its Most Powerful Linux Laptop  Fossbytes