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Why Linux is the best place to learn coding  How-To Geek

While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...

The "Windows vs. Linux" debate is a waste of time: Here’s a better approach  How-To Geek

Looking for the best Linux window manager? Here’s how I rank them  How-To Geek

After years of using GNOME, this is the desktop I switched to instead  MakeUseOf

Forget Linux Mint. These distros are the only way to switch  How-To Geek

AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance "perf" subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among the notable changes here are the performance events and metrics handling for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors...

Timur Kristóf of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enhancing the older AMD Radeon GPU support under Linux. Last year he made enough improvements to the AMDGPU open-source driver that older Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 dGPUs switched over to AMDGPU by default for nice performance gains, RADV Vulkan driver support out of the box, and all around better experience than using the legacy Radeon driver. He's also been fixing countless bugs affecting older AMD GPUs. There is another improvement on the way for benefiting some with aging AMD GPUs...

The upstream Linux kernel appears largely ready for Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to Granite Rapids. Most of the driver support appears to have been settled for a while with just some stragglers remaining. With the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel one new addition for Diamond Rapids is NTB driver support...

Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support  Phoronix

For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of improvements there. This work follows KVM also bringing some nice improvements in Linux 7.0...

Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Linux 7.0 merges AMDGPU update for decade old Radeon GPUs  VideoCardz.com

The FOSS community has made its own MinIO fork after the original went read-only  XDA

Serious About Learning Linux? Get 15 O'Reilly Linux and DevOps eBooks for Under $25  It's FOSS

Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Most notable with that pull was Rust officially concluding its "experimental" in now treating Rust for Linux kernel/driver programming as stable and here to stay. Sent out today was a round of Rust fixes for Linux 7.0 that includes preparations for the upcoming Rust 1.95 release...

How to find resource-hogging processes using the Linux command line  How-To Geek

The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements and fixes for Linux 7.0...

AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0  Phoronix