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Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia" with Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop available for download  Notebookcheck.net

How to Properly Use Privileges in Linux | by Arton Demaku | Jan, 2024  Medium

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 14th, 2024  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms  The Register

KDE e.V. as the German legal organization behind the KDE project is hiring an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use...

As we called out in our previous post on the TrustRadius Best Of 2023 Awards, customer feedback is a crucial piece of how Red Hat evolves and expands our work in enterprise IT, from the hybrid cloud to the edge and everything in between. We’re pleased to highlight that we’ve achieved another milestone with a peer review site partner, G2, which has recognized Red Hat as a leader for its Winter 2024 Reports! G2’s Winter 2024 Reports provide insights and market data based on user reviews and interactions on the platform, specifically highlighting top-performing products. The reports are hel

Matt Hicks has been a Red Hatter since 2006. In that time he’s seen the market for enterprise software evolve from one obsessed with complex closed source solutions, to one more focused on services, on-demand software development tools, open source and global scale. Sitting atop that current pile of innovative technologies are things like AI and quantum computing.Today, Hicks is Red Hat’s president and CEO, and in that position, he’s grappling with piloting the ship through narrow straits of technological promise. Which waters is he intending to navigate? Which technological river will b

Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels. An AMD Linux engineer was able to reproduce the regression and with upstream developers there is now a believed fix for this issue in the latest scheduler code...

C++ In The Linux Kernel?  iProgrammer

People Should Have Learned the Computer Through Linux  Medium

11 Best Econometric and Statistical Software for Linux  Technology News, Tutorials and Apps Review

All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...

AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0...

Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released  Phoronix

Following last month's release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39 for the Asahi Linux project's new flagship distribution for running on Apple Silicon hardware, a lengthy blog post was posted this weekend outlining some of the ongoing development efforts for Apple Silicon on Linux and newly-enabled Fedora Asahi capabilities...

Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features  Phoronix

There seems to be two classes of people when reminiscing over Adobe Flash: those that were fond of Flash-games of the time from many years ago and those that cringe over recalling Flash ads and other content requiring that prior proprietary Macromedia/Adobe tech. For those that have good memories from Adobe Flash, the Ruffle open-source project continues working to this day on an Adobe Flash Player emulator...

It’s 2024 and the chaos of holiday shopping is officially behind us. Whether you managed to get all of your gifts ahead of time or you were more of a last minute shopper, I bet there are some notes you’d have for retailers about how to make your shopping experience even smoother. Was the in-store experience chaotic? Did you have the ability to use self-checkout? Was there a buy online and pick up in-store option that actually gave you up-to-date inventory? These are all questions we’re asking ourselves as shoppers, but how are retailers working to make it happen?There are a lot of pieces

Linus Torvalds just announced he's had to put the Linux 6.8 merge window on hold due to a brutal winter storm knocking the Pacific Northwest...