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Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge  The Register

One Lonely Outpost to get Linux support around the full release  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat in full spin mode after restrictions on Enterprise Linux sources  Fudzilla

A woman goes Linux. Windows who? I am with Zorin now. | by ...  Medium

The itch.io Summer Selects Bundle 2023 has some real indie gems  GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental fixes up Street Fighter 6 and other games  GamingOnLinux

How to Count the Number of Files in a Directory in Linux  Beebom

Well, here is something nifty being worked on by Oracle. Oracle engineers have been developing "bpftune" as a new always-on, automatic tuning of Linux systems -- in particular, the many different Linux kernel tunables available and this tuning system leverages the kernel's Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) observability features to carry out its work...

Oracle Developing "bpftune" For BPF-Based, Automatic Tuning Of ...  Phoronix

The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window. Most notable is NVIDIA contributing a Linux kernel driver six years late for their SHIELD controller...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver, Xbox Rumble Support For Linux 6.5  Phoronix

Microsoft Adds Direct3D 12 Powered AV1 Video Encoding To Mesa  Phoronix

Microsoft's latest contribution to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack is enhancing their Direct3D 12 driver to support AV1 video encoding with the VA-API interface...

Ted Ts'o has submitted all the EXT4 feature changes for the Linux 6.5 merge window. EXT4 this round is seeing various clean-ups, bug fixes, and other enhancements but there is one performance optimization worth calling attention to...

EXT4 With Linux 6.5 Will See Much Faster Parallel Direct I/O ...  Phoronix

Red Hat in full spin mode after restrictions on Enterprise Linux sources  Fudzilla

Linux version of Akira ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Rocky Linux first to recover from CentOS source purge  The Register

How to Set the PATH Variable in Linux (2 Ways)  Beebom

Fedora Linux 39 Workstation to Ship with a More Modern Installer  9to5Linux