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How to Completely Uninstall WSL on Windows 10 & 11  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux 6.4-rc4 Released As A "Fairly Normal" Release  Phoronix

Due to Linus Torvalds traveling over this US Memorial Day weekend, he released Linux 6.4-rc4 about twelve hours ahead of schedule...

Vulkan 1.3.251 is out today as a rare Sunday morning spec update for this Khronos graphics/compute API...

How to start Docker Container automatically on Boot in Linux  H2S Media

A few days ago I wrote about a Linux kernel patch being prepared for fixing Intel hybrid CPU SMP/HT topology reporting due to the way the Linux kernel was currently counting the number of Hyper Threading siblings for each core. Fortunately, that fix which is apparently becomes more pressing for upcoming Meteor Lake processors, has now been picked up in time for today's Linux 6.4-rc4 release and is set for back-porting to stable kernel series...

Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings  Phoronix

Following the release of Wine 8.9 on Friday for enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux, Wine-Staging 8.9 is now available for this more testing/development-focused flavor of Wine that more liberally picks up in-development patches...

Linux Kodachi: Celebrating Four Years of Recognition in ...  EIN News

The Debian 12 "Bookworm" release is quickly approaching with an early June release date while for helping facilitate more last minute testing is a fourth release candidate of the updated Debian Installer...

How to Reset IP Address: Mac, Windows, Linux & More  eXputer

How to Use KeePassXC to Secure Your Passwords  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Virgl driver within Mesa for allowing open-source OpenGL support within virtualized environments in conjunction with the Virglrenderer is now capable of exposing OpenGL 4.6...

An updated set of patches were posted on Friday that seem to improve the Linux guest VM performance when the host is under heavy memory pressure...

Linux Patches Improve VM Guest Performance When The Host Encounters Memory Pressure  Phoronix

Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers are looking at making use of Netlink for exposing RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) and telemetry fwatures of kernel graphics drivers to user-space for their modern GPUs...

Intel Proposes Using Netlink For Linux Graphics Driver RAS ...  Phoronix

Even with summertime approaching KDE developers remain very busy further enhancing the desktop stack and continued efforts around Qt6 porting and the Plasma 6.0 desktop...

How to install AWS Toolkit on Linux for IntelliJ IDEA  H2S Media

Ahead of the US holiday weekend is the latest bi-weekly release of Wine for enjoying Windows games and applications running well on Linux and other platforms thanks to this open-source project...