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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. Sponsored By:Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links: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

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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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