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How to Manage Command History on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Along with the Phoronix Q1'2023 recap, here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most in March when it came to all of the original open-source and Linux focused content. During March on Phoronix were 240 original news articles and 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly...

Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other ...  Phoronix

Explanation for the huge Windows 11 drop on Steam in March 2023  Ghacks

If you have been wanting to experiment with running the open-source Coreboot on a modern Intel Alder Lake (Z690) motherboard, the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 that works thanks to 3mdeb's Dasharo is now for sale at its lowest price ever at just over $150...

Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?  Slashdot

Install MySQL 5.7 server and client on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux  H2S Media

How to install a digital certificate on your computer (Windows, Mac ...  Gearrice

Earlier this week I wrote about a budget Gigabyte motherboard for AMD Ryzen CPUs seeing Linux sensor monitoring support with the addition to the Gigabyte WMI sensors driver. Two more Gigabyte motherboards are now enabled for this driver in time for the Linux 6.3-rc5 release...

Two More Gigabyte Motherboards See Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.3  Phoronix

Sent to Linus Torvalds on Saturday and already merged ahead of today's Linux 6.3-rc5 release were a set of input driver fixes. Most notable with that round of fixes were addressing some touchpad and keyboard issues with some TUXEDO Computers laptops when resuming from suspend...

Linux 6.3-rc5 Bringing Fix For Touchpad/Keyboard Issues With ...  Phoronix

FreeBSD 13.2-RC4 was scheduled to be the last release candidate for this BSD operating system update but then 13.2-RC5 came with one fix. Now in dragging out the release into April, FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 has been released with another fix...

FreeBSD 13.2-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Issue  Phoronix

Valve Shows A Huge Drop In Linux Gamers For March, But The ...  Phoronix

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for March 2023 and these initial numbers show a 0.54% drop to the Linux gaming marketshare, putting the overall Linux gaming population at around 0.84% of the Steam customer base. However, once again these numbers appear skewed/inaccurate...

Valve Shows A Huge Drop In Linux Gamers For March, But The Numbers Are Questionable  Phoronix

15 Common Ubuntu Terms, Jargon, and Lingo: Explained  MUO - MakeUseOf

Introduced with Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen "Sapphire Rapids" processors was the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) for hardware accelerating data compression/decompression combined with primitive analytics functions for helping to accelerate the likes of RocksDB and ClickHouse. Intel IAA with Sapphire Rapids has already been supported for some time on an open-source stack as laid out in the Intel Sapphire Rapids accelerator setup guide while now Intel engineers are preparing Linux for IAA 2.0...

Intel IAA 2.0 Accelerator Preparations Coming With Linux 6.4  Phoronix