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The work originating in late 2021 for bringing up secondary CPU cores in parallel at boot-time to help shorten boot/reboot times for large core count servers has finally landed with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel...

Parallel CPU Bringup Lands For Linux 6.5 To Shorten Boot/Reboot Time On Large Servers  Phoronix

The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture code has seen some clean-ups and support for new Arm ISA features with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel...

Linux 6.5 On AArch64 Sees New Extensions, KPTI Cleanup  Phoronix

Steam Deck hits over 10000 verified and playable games  GamingOnLinux

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Powerline is a great statusline plugin for Vim editor, which is developed in Python and provides status lines and prompts for many other applications such

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What you do when you are not sure of the command you are running especially in case of complex Linux commands which use a lot

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Did You Know the /var/log Folder in Linux is Telling a Story?  Open Source For You

How to Change the Hostname in Linux  Beebom

If your dream is to work for Valve Software, getting experienced with the open-source Linux graphics driver development niche seems to be a decent pathway. Besides Valve, all the big hardware companies are routinely looking for more Linux graphics driver developers as well...

Upskilling and Certification Are New Keys To Securing Tech Talent  LinuxInsider.com

Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics ...  Phoronix

Capping off an exciting first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window is a pull request seeking to land the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system into this next kernel version...

Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5  Phoronix

Upsetting many in the open-source community was Red Hat's announcement last week that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources by putting them behind the Red Hat Customer Portal and publicly would be limited to the CentOS Stream sources. In turn this causes problems for free-of-cost derivatives like AlmaLinux moving forward. Red Hat today issued another blog post trying to address some of the criticism...

Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository ...  Phoronix

Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..

For the past year and a half Red Hat engineers have been developing a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer and with the Fedora Workstation 39 release later this year they are looking at possibly switching to it by default...

Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan driver has merged support for VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock, which is a highly sought after extension by game emulators and also important for DirectX over Vulkan layering efforts and more...

5 Reasons Why Ubuntu Cinnamon Is Better Than Other Ubuntu ...  MUO - MakeUseOf