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Why Windows Phone Is Dead, But Not Completely Gone  Redmondmag.com

GNOME 3.37.3 is out today as the newest development snapshot working towards the September release of GNOME 3.38...

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT / Ryzen 7 3800XT / Ryzen 9 3900XT Linux Performance In 130+ Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

After the AMD Ryzen 3000XT series was announced last month, these new higher-clocked Zen 2 desktop processors are shipping today. Here are 130+ benchmarks on each of the Ryzen 5 3600XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT, and Ryzen 9 3900XT parts compared to various Intel and AMD CPUs. Tests under Ubuntu Linux and also complemented by performance-per-Watt / power and performance-per-dollar data points.

The Khronos Group today continued with their relatively recent trend of the past few years of open-sourcing their conformance tests. The OpenXR conformance tests are now open-source...

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market 2020-2026: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS, Android  3rd Watch News

Linux Software Market 2020- 2024 Based on COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Top Players: Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Novell  Jewish Life News

How to Dual Boot Chrome OS and Windows 10 (Supports Play Store)  Beebom

Linux kernel developers: This new BLM coding style avoids words like blacklist  ZDNet

It looks like the long ongoing work for compressing the Linux kernel image with Zstd might finally soon be mainlined, potentially for next month's Linux 5.9 cycle kicking off as the "v6" patches sent out this week were done as a Git pull request...

Zstd'ing The Kernel Might See Mainline With Linux 5.9 For Faster Boot Times  Phoronix

Zstd'ing The Kernel Might See Mainline With Linux 5.9 For Faster Boot Times  Phoronix

Introduced alongside CentOS 8 last year was CentOS Stream as a developer-focused, rolling-release of CentOS/RHEL. With those processes getting squared away and CentOS recently debuting its RHEL 8.2 rebuild, CentOS Stream is beginning to see new and interesting material...

Windows by the numbers: Windows 10 is on track to reach 85% by mid-2021  Computerworld

Earlier this year was news of GNU Guix wanting to replace their Linux kernel usage with the Hurd microkernel. For those interested, the project recently began producing system images with indeed Hurd wired up for this software distribution...

The Current State of Open-Source Testing Tools  LinuxInsider.com

What’s the Difference Between Linux and Unix?  How-To Geek

Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service  Internet

Valve Starts Official VKD3D-Proton To Bring D3D12-Based Games On Linux  Fossbytes

Experimental patches under discussion for the GNU C Library (glibc) would make it easier to dynamically load optimized libraries (shared objects) on systems depending upon the CPU in use and its hardware capabilities. This glibc-hwcaps work stems from the desired work on being able to better leverage Linux performance optimizations on AMD Zen-based systems but the hardware capabilities patches themselves can help any CPU microarchitecture family in more easily shipping optimized support...