February 15, 2021

Linux Action News 176

27 minutes

Microsoft and Ubuntu's relationship is under a new spotlight this week.

Plus our rundown of the feature-packed 5.11 release, a Fuchsia surprise, exciting hardware news, and more.

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Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep — "The creepiest thing," he said, "[was] the direct contact on my private LinkedIn account" – which he noted did not share "the same corporate email.
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KDE Plasma 5.21 is Packed with New Features — KDE Plasma 5.21 is going to be released on February 16 and when it arrives it’ll bring a barrel load of changes and enhancements with it.
This week in KDE — Plasma 5.21 approaches!

Linux 5.11 Is Heavy On New Features, Improvements For 2021 — There are a ton of Intel and AMD changes, Syscall User Dispatch for helping some newer Windows games run under Wine, continued IO_uring advancements, many Btrfs file-system improvements, Lenovo contributed ThinkPad palm sensor detection support, and much more.

Linux 5.11 - Linux Kernel Newbies

Syscall User Dispatch Appears Destined For Linux 5.11 To Help Windows Games On Linux

AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11

Intel Xe Graphics Are Looking Great On Linux 5.11 With Nice Performance Uplift

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System76 Begins Detailing Their Open-Source “Launch Configurable Keyboard” — Like the Thelio computers, System76 is going to be manufacturing their own keyboards at their facility in Denver, Colorado.

Keyboards Go Open Source With System76’s ‘Launch Configurable Keyboard’

system76/launch on GitHub — System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard

System76 on Twitter — “The Launch keyboard PCB! #system76 #launch #keyboard #linux #comingsoon #sneakpeek"

AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers — Several of these new job descriptions do begin with, "step up into a new organization built to engage more strategically and deeply with the technical teams of our commercial customers."

AMD “Green Sardine” Firmware Published For Linux Users

Google Fuchsia OS could run Android & Linux apps ‘natively’ — This week, a proposal has been put forward for an alternative solution for Fuchsia to run programs meant for Linux and Android. Instead of running Linux itself, Fuchsia would gain a system called “Starnix,” which would act as a translator between instructions for the Linux kernel and instructions for Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel.

[rfc] Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia

Fuchsia - Starnix Proposal

Hacker News Comments — Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia

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