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UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?  The Register

The System76 Meerkat Is a Tiny PC Built for Linux  How-To Geek

How to remove the Bing Chat button in Microsoft Edge on Windows ...  OnMSFT.com

Amazon Linux 2023 Is Running Well, Boosting EC2 Performance Over Amazon Linux 2  Phoronix

For those currently making use of Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) as the operating system for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, the newly-released Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) is delivering some worthwhile speed-ups for maximizing your performance and value in their public cloud.

WorldBox - God Simulator adds in alliances, ages, clans and more  GamingOnLinux

AMD Xilinx KR260 Robotics Starter Kit: Democratizing Smart Robots  Hot Hardware

Get 'Linux Bible, 10th Edition' (worth $36.00) for FREE  BetaNews

Cities: Skylines final expansion is in May, with a bunch of stuff ...  GamingOnLinux

NordVPN releases source code for Linux client and networking ...  IT World Canada

While Adobe Flash is officially -- and thankfully -- dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language...

I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block...

Last week following the Linux 6.3-rc1 release Intel engineers already began sending new Intel i915 driver feature code to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.4 merge window in early May. This week another batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" material was submitted...

Intel Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed  Phoronix

While there is Pyston, PyPy, and various other alternative Python implementations being done in the name of performance, Codon is one of the newer ones and is talking up 10~100x faster performance...

Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code  Phoronix

Following last month's soft freeze for Debian 12 "Bookworm", this popular Linux distribution is now in its hard freeze until its release time...

Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze  Phoronix

What are Tar and Gz? Difference between them.  H2S Media