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Firefox 79.0 isn't scheduled to be formally announced until Tuesday but the release binaries have now hit Mozilla's FTP servers...

Linux Operating System Market to Witness Stunning Growth | Google, IBM, Oracle, AWS  Market Research Posts

Old laptop with Lubuntu won't connect to the internet - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to install RemoteBox on WSL Windows 10 to access VirtualBox  H2S Media

HashiCorp opens doors to Vault 1.5, Consul Service on Azure, and Linux Repository • DEVCLASS  DevClass

How to improve Firefox performance in Linux with just a few clicks  Explica

Mozilla Firefox 79 Is Now Available for Download on Windows, Linux, Mac  Softpedia News

With the Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake" processor here are some fresh GCC compiler benchmarks when looking at the performance of GCC 8.4 versus 9.3 versus a 10.2 snapshot while testing with optimization flags of -O2, -O3 -march=native, and -O3 -march=native -flto.

Linux malware could soon be a thing of the past  TechRadar

Linux Software Market Demand And Future Opportunity by Key Players Like Samsung, Oracle, DELL, IBM, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, RedHat, Amazon, Novell and More  Owned

As outlined a few months ago, Intel's future Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake processors are set to add a SERIALIZE instruction. That SERIALIZE instruction ensures all flags/register/memory modifications are complete as well as draining all buffered writes to memory before the next instruction is executed. Linux is moving forward with preparing to make use of this new CPU instruction in its function for stopping speculative execution and prefetching of modified code...

Linux Kernel Prepping To Make Use Of Intel's New SERIALIZE Instruction  Phoronix

Codasip releases first Linux-capable RISC-V core  New Electronics

DragonFlyBSD developer François Tigeot continues his trek of near single-handedly porting the Intel and Radeon DRM graphics driver code from the Linux kernel to this BSD...

DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel + Radeon Linux-Ported Graphics Driver Code  Phoronix

Lighttpd is an open-source web server for Linux machines, very fast and very small in size, it doesn’t require a lot of memory and CPU usage which makes it one of the best servers

MikroBUS is the open add-on board standard aiming for "maximum expandability with the smallest number of pins". MikroBUS already has fairly robust industry support particularly in the embedded space while finally a mikroBUS mainline kernel driver may be near for Linux to improve the status quo of driver support...

MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux  Phoronix

MikroBUS Patches Being Worked On For Better Supporting These Add-On Boards Under Linux  Phoronix

Lighttpd is an open-source, secure, fast, flexible, and more optimized web server designed for speed-critical environments with less memory utilization as compared to other web servers. It can handle up to 10,000 connections parallel