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While Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was released less than two weeks ago, attention by Canonical and the Ubuntu development community has already turned to Ubuntu 20.10 as the Groovy Gorilla. With it being the first release past an LTS debut, they tend to be a more liberal in the changes in allowing plenty of time to stabilize before the next Long Term Support cycle. On the ZFS front it looks like we could be in for some more exciting changes...

The Linux DM-Writecache target that allows for writeback caching to cache newly written data to an SSD or persistent memory will with Linux 5.8 see better performance out of Intel Optane like storage on newer platforms...

Linux Writecache To See Much Greater Performance On Intel Optane Systems Soon  Phoronix

Valve drops SteamVR support for MacOS  GameDaily.biz

Firefox 76.0 is out today as the newest feature release to Mozilla's web browser...

Firefox 76 Released With WebRender Improvements, Better Security  Phoronix

David Howells of Red Hat has been working to "massively overhaul" the code surrounding the kernel's local caching for network filesystems...

Linux's Local Cache For Network Filesystems Seeing Huge Speed-Up, Lower Memory Use  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Leads Initiative for Better Digital Trust  LinuxInsider.com

Linux Desktop Environment Face-Off: Which GUI is Best?  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation’s Data Privacy Project Joined by IBM, Mastercard  The Chain Bulletin

CloudHedge Announces Support for Windows & Linux Application Containerization  AiThority

Windows by the numbers: Windows share shrinks, Linux surges ... wait, Linux?  Computerworld

1. Windows by the numbers: Windows share shrinks, Linux surges ... wait, Linux?  Computerworld
2. Windows 10 Market Share Falls, Linux and macOS Increase, Windows 7 Stands Firm  WinBuzzer
3. Windows 10 Users Are Switching To macOS And Linux  Fossbytes
4. Windows 10 market share drops as Ubuntu record growth  WindowsLatest
5. Microstutter only in Windows, fine in Linux. GPU, FB usage and Power drop to 1/2 - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer
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1. Windows by the numbers: Windows share shrinks, Linux surges ... wait, Linux?  Computerworld
2. Bad news for Windows 10 as users shift to Ubuntu and macOS  TechRadar
3. Windows 10 Market Share Falls, Linux and macOS Increase, Windows 7 Stands Firm  WinBuzzer
4. Windows 10 Users Are Switching To macOS And Linux  Fossbytes
5. Windows 10 market share drops as Ubuntu record growth  WindowsLatest
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Google Chrome prepares Android’s ‘Live Caption’ for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS  9to5Google

Linux AArch64 SDK  Imaging and Machine Vision Europe

Trust over IP Foundation hosted by Linux  App Developer Magazine

Microsoft to hackers: Break our Azure Sphere Linux IoT OS and earn up to $100k  ZDNet

Here's how to turn on dark mode in Microsoft Teams  OnMSFT