While Fedora 34 isn't releasing until the end of April or so, there is already feature planning that has continued for Fedora 35 that will come in the autumn.

The latest proposal for Fedora 35 is to make use of the in-development RPM 4.17.

RPM 4.17 for Fedora 35's package management needs will provide more robust RPM install failure handling, macro improvements and better Lua integration, API enhancements, better documentation, and a variety of other improvements.

Oracle continues advancing their "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel" as the company's modified Linux kernel build offered to Oracle Linux users as an alternative to its Red Hat Compatible Kernel for their RHEL-based OS. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6 Update 2 is out to end Q1'2021 with various new features.

Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 6 continues to be based on the upstream Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series rather than Linux 4.18 as found in the RHEL8 and Oracle's

GIMP 3.0 still isn't out yet but the GIMP 2.10 stable series continues seeing new point releases with additional feature work until that GTK3 version of this image editor / Photoshop alternative is ready.

GIMP 2.10.24 is another update bringing some minor new features in the absence of GIMP 3.0. GIMP 2.10.24 has support for being able to snap GIMP's different tools to guides, grids, and vectors outside of the canvas area

Red Hat is ending out the quarter by issuing their first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 continues the company's work on improving their hybrid cloud capabilities, system administrative and management enhancements, and more. There are also select new/updated packages and various kernel features back-ported to their Linux 4.18 based kernel.

Among the highlights of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 beta include:

- Expanded support for eBPF with RHEL 8.4

Canonical today announced the release of the "Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview" as a specialized build of Ubuntu catering to Microsoft's WSL2.

This community preview utilizes new image creation tooling , a new user setup utility that is run on first-run and based on their Subiquity installer, ubuntuwsl is integrated as their Ubuntu WSL command-line interface for configuring the distribution, and a new extension for integration with the Windows Terminal.

At the start of the year CloudLinux announced AlmaLinux as a 1:1 fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In ending out Q1, as promised this CentOS alternative is now available for download.

Following the announcement last year that CentOS 8 would be discontinued EOY2021 in favor of focusing on CentOS Stream as the future upstream to RHEL, "Project Lenix" by CloudLinux was started as one of the new RHEL/CentOS alternatives.

After several months of hard work, this community-focused

While Qt 6.1 is aiming to release around the end of April, for now the Qt 6.0 series continues marching forward and is out today with the Qt 6.0.3 point release providing another few dozen bug fixes.

Qt 6.0.3 brings around 40 known bug fixes to this inaugural Qt6 toolkit release. Qt 6.0.3 brings a number of general bug fixes, various mobile issues resolved, multiple programs on Qt Wayland causing Qt Virtual Keyboard to break, and

Along with our Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux review from yesterday with 22 pages of benchmarks, even more performance data is now published and continues to flow in via OpenBenchmarking.org for looking at the Intel Rocket Lake performance across hundreds of benchmarks and compared to many other processors we have tested and that of the community.

Via Intel Core i9 11900K on OpenBenchmarking.org you can see immediately the benchmarks where the