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  <itunes:subtitle>A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/linuxactionnews">Datadog</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/linuxactionnews"> Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Linode</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Linux Action News 166" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxactionnews.com/166">Linux Action News 166</a></li><li><a title="The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-5.9-AMDGPU-Stats">The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel</a></li><li><a title="The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=New-exFAT-For-Linux-5.7">The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7</a></li><li><a title="The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-2020-Scheduler-Bugs-Stadia">The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers</a></li><li><a title="Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Torvalds-On-Scheduler-Woes">Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”</a></li><li><a title="Thanks Oracle! 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New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%</a></li><li><a title="Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=systemd-2020">Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020</a></li><li><a title="Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Systemd-Homed-Merged">Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories</a></li><li><a title="Linux Action News 163" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxactionnews.com/163">Linux Action News 163</a></li><li><a title="New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support &amp; More" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-Linux-2020">New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support &amp; More</a></li><li><a title="Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Red-Hat-CVE-2019-14615">Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw</a></li><li><a title="A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-KVM-CVE-2020-2732">A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code</a></li><li><a title="Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-Gen12-Xe-AV1-Decode-Media">Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands</a></li><li><a title="AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-2020-Highlights">AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support</a></li><li><a title="Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Torvalds-Threadripper">Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems</a></li><li><a title="Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/balancing-the-needs-around-the-centos-platform/?utm_source=phx">Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org</a></li><li><a title="2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-2020-Highlights">2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux</a></li><li><a title="WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=WSL2-Windows-10-v2004">WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Pres-On-Open-Source">Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Writing-Wayland-Comp">Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Edge-For-Linux-Oct">Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month</a></li><li><a title="KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=KDE-2020-Highlights">KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout</a></li><li><a title="KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=KDE-Plasma-5.18-Released">KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features</a></li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/385">LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies</a></li><li><a title="GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-2020-Highlights">GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development</a></li><li><a title="GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-OS-GUADEC-2020">GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop</a></li><li><a title="GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME”" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-Circle-Announced">GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME”</a></li><li><a title="GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GTK-4.0-Released">GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released</a></li><li><a title="ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ledger-cli.org/">ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system</a> &mdash; Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. 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    <![CDATA[<p>A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/linuxactionnews">Datadog</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://datadog.com/linuxactionnews"> Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Linode</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Linux Action News 166" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxactionnews.com/166">Linux Action News 166</a></li><li><a title="The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-5.9-AMDGPU-Stats">The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel</a></li><li><a title="The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=New-exFAT-For-Linux-5.7">The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7</a></li><li><a title="The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-2020-Scheduler-Bugs-Stadia">The Linux Kernel’s Scheduler Apparently Causing Issues For Google Stadia Game Developers</a></li><li><a title="Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Torvalds-On-Scheduler-Woes">Torvalds’ Comments On Linux Scheduler Woes: “Pure Garbage”</a></li><li><a title="Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Oracle-Faster-Linux-Boot-PADATA">Thanks Oracle! New Patches Pending Can Reduce Linux Boot Times Up To ~49%</a></li><li><a title="Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=systemd-2020">Systemd Had A Pretty Big 2020</a></li><li><a title="Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Systemd-Homed-Merged">Systemd-Homed Merged As A Fundamental Change To Linux Home Directories</a></li><li><a title="Linux Action News 163" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxactionnews.com/163">Linux Action News 163</a></li><li><a title="New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support &amp; More" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-Linux-2020">New Linux Features, Timely Hardware Support &amp; More</a></li><li><a title="Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Red-Hat-CVE-2019-14615">Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw</a></li><li><a title="A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-KVM-CVE-2020-2732">A KVM Virtualization bug on Intel Processors because of Unfinished Code</a></li><li><a title="Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-Gen12-Xe-AV1-Decode-Media">Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode - Linux Support Lands</a></li><li><a title="AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-2020-Highlights">AMD Wowed Linux Users In 2020 With Their Fantastic Zen 3 CPUs, and Timely New Open-Source GPU Support</a></li><li><a title="Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Torvalds-Threadripper">Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems</a></li><li><a title="Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/balancing-the-needs-around-the-centos-platform/?utm_source=phx">Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform – Blog.CentOS.org</a></li><li><a title="2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-2020-Highlights">2020 Was Another Interesting Year For Microsoft Around Open-Source/Linux</a></li><li><a title="WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=WSL2-Windows-10-v2004">WSL2 Reaching General Availability In Windows 10 v2004</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Pres-On-Open-Source">Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Writing-Wayland-Comp">Microsoft Is Writing Its Own Wayland Compositor As Part Of WSL2 GUI Efforts</a></li><li><a title="Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Microsoft-Edge-For-Linux-Oct">Microsoft Edge Is Coming Out For Linux Next Month</a></li><li><a title="KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=KDE-2020-Highlights">KDE Saw Its Wayland Support Stabilize Nicely In 2020, Much Polishing Throughout</a></li><li><a title="KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=KDE-Plasma-5.18-Released">KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features</a></li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/385">LINUX Unplugged 385: The 2020 Tuxies</a></li><li><a title="GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-2020-Highlights">GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development</a></li><li><a title="GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-OS-GUADEC-2020">GNOME OS Is Taking Shape But Its To Serve For Testing The Desktop</a></li><li><a title="GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME”" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GNOME-Circle-Announced">GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME”</a></li><li><a title="GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=GTK-4.0-Released">GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released</a></li><li><a title="ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ledger-cli.org/">ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system</a> &mdash; Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. 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