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Oliver Smith at Canonical who serves as the Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop published a post on "charting a course for the future" of the Ubuntu desktop...

Mastering Linux skills for a DevOps career  SiliconRepublic.com

Since 2021 among other Snap'ing efforts for converting formerly Ubuntu DEB packages to Canonical's Snap sandboxed app packaging format has been the CUPS print server. The plan was to replace the Debian-packaged CUPS with the Snap-based CUPS for Ubuntu 23.10 but now that is being pushed back to next year...

It looks like the further-tuned AMD Inception / SRSO (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) mitigation code will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window...

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON runs well on Steam Deck ...  GamingOnLinux

Happy birthday, Linux  MyBroadband

Coreboot 4.21 is available this week as the newest tagged release for this open-source system BIOS/firmware solution. Coreboot 4.21 brings a number of new motherboard ports as well as various core improvements...

Miguel Ojeda who leads the "Rust for Linux" effort of integrating Rust programming language support into the Linux kernel has already submitted his pull request of planned feature updates for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle...

Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade  Phoronix

Libinput 1.24 is available today for this input handling library used by Linux systems both legacy X11/X.Org desktops and especially by modern Wayland compositors for unifying input handling in the open-source world...

libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets  Phoronix

The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm...

Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still missing  The Register

Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu • The Register  The Register

The post How to Use /proc File System to Monitor Your Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Today, we will delve into the contents of the /proc directory to develop a better understanding of its functionalities. It’s important to note that the

The post How to Use /proc File System to Monitor Your Linux System first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Following AMD recently posting Linux graphics driver patches for enabling a GFX 11.5 graphics engine and new DCN 3.5 display block that are presumably for an RDNA3 refresh such as for the Ryzen 8000 series APUs, today AMD posted additional open-source driver patch series for enabling additional new IP...

AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH ...  Phoronix

A Brief Story of Time and Timeout  Linux Journal

Parallels Desktop 19 gets Sonoma-ready, expands OpenGL and Linux support  Ars Technica

The 9 Best Audio Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf