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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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- Linux Action News 166
- 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
- ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. Ledger, begun in 2003, is written by John Wiegley and released under the BSD license. It has also inspired several ports to other languages.