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Here is what is new in Firefox 96.0.2  Ghacks Technology News

Hwo to install NextCloud on Rocky Linux 8  Linux Shout

Hwo to install NextCloud on Rocky Linux 8  H2S Media

There are many game design programs and many different possible approaches to game design, but for me, the one that stands out is Bitsy. Created by Adam Le Doux in 2017 and released under an MIT license, Bitsy is, in the words of its creator: "A little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around, talk to people, and be somewhere."

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OSS News: SysJoker Backdoor, Linux Firmware, LibreOffice Improves, Distro Hopping Choices  TechNewsWorld

OSS News: SysJoker Backdoor, Linux Firmware, LibreOffice Improves, Distro Hopping Choices  E-Commerce Times

The usage of Go is growing rapidly. It is now the preferred language for writing cloud-native software, container software, command-line tools, databases, and more. Go has had built-in support for testing for quite some time now. It makes writing tests and running them using the Go tool relatively easy.

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The post LXLE Review: A Lightweight Linux Distro for Older Computers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you visit the official LXLE official site its mantra – ‘Revive that Old PC’ – is boldly captured. And this is exactly what LXLE aims to do. Based on the Ubuntu/Lubuntu LTS release,

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The RTC subsystem changes have been submitted for the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel ahead of its merge window winding down this weekend...

To date the Intel Linux graphics driver has supported Intel's DG2 "Alchemist" G10 and G11 sub-platforms/variants as the main designs to this point. However, at the end of last year we began seeing "G12" references surface in their compute stack and now the Intel open-source Linux kernel driver is formally preparing the DG2-G12 variant support...

In addition to the Fedora / Red Hat Anaconda installer working on a web-based implementation, openSUSE/SUSE is also exploring a web-based installation front-end built atop their existing YaST. They are developing this new web front-end as the "D-Installer" project...

SUSE announces Liberty Linux to fill gap left by death of CentOS  iTWire

Here's how to update a tar file from the Linux file manager  TechRepublic

How to Add Application Shortcuts to the Ubuntu Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Red Hat with the Fedora community have been working for years now to make Cockpit very capable for a web-based interface for administering Linux servers. In addition to this year working on shifting their Anaconda installer to a web-based interface that makes use of Cockpit, from this web management portal they are wanting to make it easier to setup file sharing with NFS and Samba...

For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads  The Register

Attacks Escalating Against Linux-Based IoT Devices | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

When it comes to OpenGL extension support, the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation now has as robust coverage as core Mesa offers and what is implemented by the LLVMpipe software driver, RadeonSI Gallium3D, and the Intel i965 drivers...

A handful of new AMD Radeon open-source GPU sofware releases were made today for developers...

AMD Preps for Zen 4: Different Types of Cores Now Supported in Linux  Tom's Hardware