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Linux Operating System Market Investigation Highlights Growth Trends in the Coming Years: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  Instant Tech News

Global Linux Computer Market: Dynamics, Segments, Size and Demand, 2020-2025  Instant Tech News

A Pre-Shared Key (PSK) or also known as a shared secret is a string of characters that is used as an authentication key in cryptographic processes. A PSK is shared before being used and...

Showing Your Love For Open-Source + Linux Benchmarking This Valentine's Day  Phoronix

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Clear Linux looks poised to join the ranks of the few Linux distributions allowing it to run off an F2FS root file-system...

F2FS Root File-System Support For Clear Linux Appears To Be Coming  Phoronix

Digging up IP addresses with the Linux dig command  Network World

While the open-source Intel "ANV" and Radeon "RADV" Vulkan drivers get talked about a lot, one of the lesser known Vulkan drivers within Mesa is Turnip but it's been gaining steam recently...

Solus Ships Linux Kernel 5.5 And Noveau Driver For v4.1 Fortitude  Fossbytes

It's been years since last hearing anything about sisched as the SI machine instruction scheduler that started out for the RadeonSI OpenGL driver and was ultimately supported by the RADV Vulkan driver too...

Radeon "sisched" Scheduler Is Made Obsolete By RADV's ACO Back-End  Phoronix

Google slams Samsung for making unnecessary changes to Linux kernel code  SamMobile

Proton 5.0-2 is out with fixes over last week's big Proton 5.0-1 release that brought many features to this Wine 5.0 downstream focused on powering Valve's Steam Play for running Windows games nicely on Linux...

Proton 5.0-2 Released To Fix Crashes For Steam Play Linux Gamers  Phoronix

Intel Blackhole Render support was finally merged today for the new Intel "Iris" Gallium3D OpenGL driver default, the older i965 driver for pre-Broadwell hardware, and also the Mesa state tracker for Gallium3D drivers...

There are now more VR gamers on Steam than Linux gamers  Windows Central

Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux  Ars Technica

Ubuntu 20.04 + Linux 5.5: Fresh Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC Rome vs. Intel Xeon Cascade Lake  Phoronix

Here are some fresh numbers looking at the current performance of various AMD EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors up against Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors when using an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS development snapshot and also upgrading to Linux 5.5 as the latest stable kernel. Beyond raw performance, power efficiency and performance-per-dollar for these different server CPUs are being compared as well for these sub-$5000 processors.