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How to install Linux Ubuntu on Hyper-V in Windows 11/10  TWCN Tech News

AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 Released To Fix Poor Wayland Performance  Phoronix

AMD's official Vulkan driver team is ending out the year by pushing out AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver implementation for Linux systems. This alternative to the Mesa RADV driver finally has fixed up its very poor performance for Vulkan under Wayland...

Enlightenment 0.25 Released With Improvements To This Lightweight Window Manager  Phoronix

Carsten Haitzler released a new version of the Enlightenment window manager / shell (and Wayland compositor) for Christmas. Various Enlightenment components have also seen new releases...

It was nearly four years ago already that Intel announced Sound Open Firmware in pushing for open-source sound firmware for their hardware. The Sound Open Firmware effort has been a great success even if it's not a shiny project widely talked about among consumers. Just prior to the holidays Sound Open Firmware 2.0 was quietly released...

When it comes to the Motorola 68000 "m68k" virtual machine targets, the most powerful option under Linux right now is the Quadra 800. That though for virtualization purposes isn't too useful by today's standards with being limited to 1GB of RAM and limited interface support. But a new Virtual M68k Machine aims to provide a more useful target and support has already landed in QEMU while the Linux kernel support is pending...

Mold is a New Linux Linker Aiming to Outperform Lld  InfoQ.com

Best of 2021 – The Linux Flaw you can’t afford to Ignore (CVE-2021-3156)  Security Boulevard

Open source software isn't just about creating alternatives to proprietary software. On the business side, open source has become a "force multiplier" to transform how organizations do business. At the same time, more companies have started to adopt more open source methodologies, even in managing teams and processes.

In the last year, we ran many great articles that show how businesses connect with open source software. Here are some of the most-read articles:

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Lighttpd is an open-source, high-performance, super-fast, flexible, and simple to configure secure web server that provides support for the broad technologies that include PHP, FastCGI, Auth, SSL, URL rewriting, reverse proxy, load balancing, and

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Linux 5.16 is great news for AMD Ryzen users, massive performance boosts incoming  Neowin

The Linux 5.17 kernel when it kicks off next month is slated to introduce a new driver "x86-android-tablets" just for dealing with all the quirky/buggy x86 tablets out there...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 5.16-rc7 today as the newest weekly test candidate while the official Linux 5.16 stable release should happen in two weeks...

AMD Ryzen APUs Get A Free Performance Boost With Linux 5.16, Up To 28% Improvement  Wccftech

How to Change Your Password on Any Linux Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Apple Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips Now Supported in Linux on T2 and M1 Macs  iPhone in Canada

Steps to Install Nmap & ZenMap on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

Another important step toward Apple M1 hardware being useful under Linux is in the process of being realized... Working WiFi. The initial "request for comments" patch series was sent out today enabling the Broadcom "BRCMFMAC" driver to work for the wireless LAN support on the M1 SoC as well as with the Apple T2 platforms...

While off the usual Friday release regiment due to the Christmas holidays, Wine 7.0-rc3 was released minutes ago as the newest test release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux...