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This Website Lets You Test Linux Distros Right from Your Browser  Beebom

GNU Binutils 2.33 was tagged in Git two weeks ago but seemingly without any release announcement while now Binutils 2.33.1 has been released...

How to use hyper-v to install Linux Virtual machine on Windows 10  H2S Media

Red Hat had been looking to hire another experienced open-source graphics driver developer and for that their newest member on their growing open-source graphics team is a longtime AMD/ATI developer...

FreeBSD 12.1 is near with the first release candidate shipping this weekend. While a point release over the nearly one year old FreeBSD 12.0, it does come with some notable changes in tow...

Friday marked the release of dav1d 0.5 as the newest version of this speedy open-source AV1 video decoder. With dav1d 0.5 are optimizations to help out SSSE3 most prominently but also AVX2 and ARM64 processors. Here are some initial benchmarks so far of this new dav1d video decoder on Linux...

There is yet another significant improvement found for XWayland in the latest X.Org Server code that will hopefully see a long overdue release soon...

Autonomous Linux and the IT Utility  E-Commerce Times

With The Qt Company working hard now on development around Qt 6, the KDE developers are beginning their early discussions over their path forward to adopting this next evolutionary tool-kit update...

AMD has released a new version of their X.Org display driver...

Most Downloaded Report on Linux Software Market | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Market Expert

Most Downloaded Report on Linux Software Market | Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Oracle  Market Expert

For years we have been looking forward to the realistic X-Plane flight simulator rendered by Vulkan as an alternative to their long-standing OpenGL render and with X-Plane 11.50 that is finally being made a reality...

Hands-on video of the Librem 5 Linux phone shows improvements, but there is a lot of work left to do  Notebookcheck.net

Rspamd 2.0 has been released as the newest version of this leading open-source spam filtering software and it's coming with plenty of changes...

A lot of the Tiger Lake "Gen 12" graphics compiler infrastructure changes to Mesa for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers were just merged into the Mesa 19.3 code-base...

Linux Vendor SUSE Exits OpenStack Cloud Market | IT Pro  ITPro Today

Upcoming change will make Linux gaming a reality on Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

Upcoming change will make Linux gaming a reality on Chromebooks  Chrome Unboxed

The KDE Plasma Mobile team has begun publishing weekly reports on their development efforts for making KDE software more suitable for mobile devices as well as convergence and other efforts in common with KDE on the desktop...