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Libinput 1.15 Is On Approach With Various Improvements/Fixes For Linux Input Handling  Phoronix

Netflix: BPF is a new type of software we use to run Linux apps securely in the kernel  ZDNet

Global Linux Operating System Market Demand 2019-2025 Revenue (Value) Share Manufacturers IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux  Banking Industry

In addition to the discussion over potentially dropping non-Gallium3D drivers from Mesa or otherwise potentially forking a portion of the code, AMD's Marek Olšák made a separate proposal about renaming the Gallium3D "state tracker" concept to being "API" implementations...

No matter what desktop you use, there's always something you want to change about it. One of the most popular applications for the GNOME desktop is Tweaks, which contains all the preference settings left out of the GNOME Settings panel. The Solus Linux distribution features the Budgie desktop, which is best described as one great big GNOME tweak.

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In an earlier post, Blockchain evolution: A quick guide and why open source is at the heart of it, I discussed the first generations of blockchains: the public Bitcoin and cryptocurrency blockchains, followed by the Ethereum blockchain capable of executing programs ("smart contracts"), leading to permissioned versions of code-executing blockchains (e.g., Hyperledger Fabric, Quorum).

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In the previous article in this series, you simulated gravity, but now you need to give your player a way to fight against gravity by jumping.

A jump is a temporary reprieve from gravity. For a few moments, you jump up instead of falling down, the way gravity is pulling you. But once you hit the peak of your jump, gravity kicks in again and pulls you back down to earth.

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The Flash-Friendly File-System continues to be refined and with the forthcoming Linux 5.5 kernel are more improvements albeit largely bug fixes...

L2TP (which stands for Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) is a tunneling protocol designed to support virtual private networks (VPN connections) over the internet. It is implemented in most if not all modern operating systems...

For years there has been work on a Wayland back-end to Ozone, the Google component for abstracting user-interface elements and input/window handling among other tasks across platforms. It looks like in 2020 the Ozone Wayland support will be in good standing and promoted out of beta...

Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year  Phoronix

Canonical Releases 'Ubuntu Pro' Linux Images for Amazon Web Services  Fossbytes

Linux Distributions Software Market Opportunities, Growth and Forecasting for next Upcoming Year 2026: Oracle, NOVELL, RedHat, Google, IBM and more  Market Report Gazette

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With each new release of Firefox we set out to see how the performance is looking on the Linux desktop. One discovery we've made is that when using Intel's Clear Linux the Firefox performance is a lot more competitive to Google Chrome than we traditionally see on Ubuntu Linux. But with Firefox 71 we're seeing the performance trending lower compared to Firefox 69 and 70...

Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great  Phoronix

Firefox 71 Linux Performance Isn't Looking All That Great  Phoronix

SBCs and compact embedded PCs run Linux on Ryzen Embedded  LinuxGizmos.com

Ubuntu Linux Gets Intel Microcode Update to Fix CPU Hangs  BleepingComputer