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A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.
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The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel
The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7
The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers
Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”
Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%
Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020
Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories
Linux Action News 163
New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support & More
Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw
A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code
Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands
AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems
Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org
2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux
WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004
Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts
Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month
KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout
KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features
LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies
GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development
GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop
GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME”
GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released
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