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FreeDOS 1.2 released back on Christmas 2016 and now a half-decade later has finally been succeeded by FreeDOS 1.3 for advancing this open-source alternative to MS-DOS...

The upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel cycle will bring a number of improvements for Apple keyboards -- both for the Apple Magic Keyboard and the keyboards integrated with their various MacBook computers...

Project Zero finds that Linux developers fix security flaws faster than Apple, Google or Microsoft  BetaNews

AMD engineers on Sunday night sent out a patch series getting x2APIC virtualization "x2AVIC" support for the AMD SVM driver with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...

LLVMpipe as the software OpenGL implementation that runs atop the CPU and Lavapipe as the Vulkan equivalent have seen a recent uptick in activity...

Linux Release Roundup #22.8: Slax 11.2, OBS Studio 27.2, Kali Linux 2022.1, and More Releases  It's FOSS News

How to install Linux on your PlayStation 4 and what you can expect  Geeky Gadgets

6 Reasons to Try Nitrux OS  It's FOSS News

Debuting last December was Mold 1.0 as a high performance, modern linker to compete with GNU's Gold and LLVM's LLD. That project was started by Rui Ueyama who originally worked on LLVM's LLD and has been working aggressively on performance optimizations. Sunday night marked the release of Mold 1.1 as the latest major update to this linker...

One of the things that open source prides itself on is choice. You don't have to settle for anything you don't love. You can change your file manager, your text editor, and you even have over 24 desktops to choose from. As with many Linux users, I was pretty flexible about the desktop I used at first. I didn't know what I liked at first, because I hadn't tried everything available to me.

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Whether you're interested in them as part of your job, for future job opportunities, or just out of interest in new technology, containers can seem pretty overwhelming to even an experienced systems administrator. So how do you actually get started with containers? And what's the path from containers to Kubernetes? Also, why is there a path from one to the other at all? As you might expect, the best place to start is the beginning.

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Linux Developers Fix Bugs Faster Than Apple & Google: Report  Fossbytes

Embedded Linux Market 2022 Global Revenue Analysis, Forecast Statistics – ENEA, IBM, Microchip, Siemens, Green Hills Software, Intel, etc – ZNews Africa  ZNews Africa

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There are several ways of NGINX web server security hardening one of which is access control based on IP address. This guide explains how to secure web applications by controlling access based on a

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OpenBLAS as the popular open-source implementation of the BLAS and LAPACK APIs is out with a new feature release...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.17-rc5 as another weekly test version of Linux 5.17 that will debut as stable in March...

How to Use Google Messages on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Thanks to Red Hat engineer Jelle van der Waa, the hid-razer driver is set to be merged into Linux 5.18 next month for dealing with Razer hardware not complying with the HID standard...

How To Monitor Your CPU and RAM in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Intel's Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is ready to be merged for the Linux 5.18 kernel now that it's been queued into the x86 platform driver's "for-next" branch...