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After earlier this month announcing Steam for Chrome OS following months of rumors/leaks around the initiative, Google today has made an alpha build of Steam available for select Chromebooks...

Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)  DevOps.com

Jensen Huang has just wrapped up his GTC Spring 2022 keynote and thus the embargo has lifted on several exciting announcements from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has a lot of interesting hardware and software to talk about at this "#1 AI developer conference" from the Hopper H100 to next year's Grace CPU Superchips to the Jetson Orin.

CodeWeavers is out today with CrossOver 21.2 as the newest version of their commercial downstream based on Wine that offers Windows application and game support across Linux, macOS, and Chrome OS...

How to install Backdrop CMS on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy  Linux Shout

Out of the Park Baseball 23 Set to Launch On PC, Mac, & Linux April 22  Twinfinite

Qualys : Implications of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Adversaries & Defenders (Part 1)  Marketscreener.com

The 5 Best Open-Source Internet Radio Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 5 Best Open-Source Internet Radio Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Since the release of the Linux 5.17 kernel the leading question in my inbox has been from readers asking how to actually make use of the AMD P-State driver. Right now this driver isn't the default over ACPI CPUFreq and I haven't seen any Linux distribution vendors announce their plans to immediately default to this new driver, but over the months ahead I expect that to change. In any case, if wanting to use amd_pstate on Linux 5.17 today here is a brief how-to guide for making the transition...

Xonsh Shell Combines the Best of Bash Shell and Python in Linux Terminal  It's FOSS

Embedded Linux Market 2022 Size & Industry Forecast by 2028 – ChattTenn Sports  ChattTenn Sports

A change that had been expected but finally buttoned up in time for next month's Jammy Jellyfish release: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will now default to using the GNOME Wayland session when running the NVIDIA proprietary driver. The caveat/limitation is that's only the case when using the NVIDIA 510 series driver or newer and not when using any of the older legacy driver branches...

We take Asahi Linux alpha for a spin on an M1 Mac Mini  The Register

SUSE's David Sterba on Monday submitted the Btrfs file-system updates for the in-development Linux 5.18 kernel...

An Exciting Btrfs Update With Encoded I/O, Fsync Performance Improvements  Phoronix

Using the ldd command on Linux  Network World

Going back to 2019 the open-source ecosystem has been working on ENQCMD/ENQCMDS support for introduction with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" as part of the Data Streaming Accelerator work. ENQCMD support was added to the Linux kernel but last June was outright disabled for being "broken beyond repair". It's now managed to be repaired and for Linux 5.18 this instruction usage is being re-enabled...

Ubuntu Users Receive a New Major Linux Kernel Update, 22 Security Flaws Patched  9to5Linux

GNU Linux-Libre 5.17 is out as the downstream flavor of Linux 5.17 that strips out code/support depending upon closed-source microcode or other non-free fragments as well as removing the ability to load proprietary kernel modules...