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The ENQCMD functionality that is part of Intel's Data Streaming Accelerator with upcoming Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors was disabled earlier this year for being "broken beyond repair". But now ahead of Sapphire Rapids beginning to ramp up in the coming months, Intel open-source engineers believe they have improved the code that the ENQCMD instruction usage could be re-enabled for the Linux kernel...

Intel Prepares To Re-Enable ENQCMD On Linux After Being Disabled For "Broken Beyond Repair"  Phoronix

KDE Wayland users have many reasons to be grateful this Christmas with yet more improvements having landed for the Plasma Wayland session. Plus KDE's Konsole terminal emulator can now scroll about twice as fast as previously...

The ability to run Linux on modern mainframes opens doors to doing all kinds of things on the platform. An Apache HTTP server? Easy! A database? Would you like SQL or NoSQL? Kubernetes? Sure! As I concluded in Linux on the mainframe: Then and now, all of the most popular Linux distributions for servers today have versions for the mainframe.

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Light detection and ranging, better known as LiDAR, is a method of taking photographs of 3D space using lasers and GPS. That sounds like science fiction—I can think of a few scenes in some movies that probably reimagined this technology without realizing it—but it's a technology that's existed for over 50 years.

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How to use Chrome OS to host several Linux containers for additional build environments  BollyInside

Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976  The Register

Linux Foundation Now Enrolling for Intro to Open Source & Fundamentals of Open Source Courses  TechDecisions

While now half-way through December, Microsoft today published their November 2021 update to CBL-Mariner 1.0, their in-house Linux distribution...

With Wine 7.0 gearing up for release in January, since last week we have been under a feature freeze and weekly release candidates. Wine 7.0-rc2 is out now with more fixes in battening up this next open-source release for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux / macOS / BSDs...

TellYouThePass ransomware revived in Linux, Windows Log4j attacks  BleepingComputer

How to Download and Install Tor Browser on Linux PC  BollyInside

After the open-source NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver changes intended for Linux 5.16 weren't pulled due to timing, they are back around for Linux 5.17 with most notably the open-source Tegra driver feature pull request introducing NVDEC video decoding...

The 10 Best Linux Apps for Digital Artists  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install OpenProject on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server  H2S Media

How to install OpenProject on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server  Linux Shout

How to install Linux on your Windows PC  ZDNet

How To Play Minecraft on a Chromebook  BollyInside

1. How to install Linux on your Windows PC  ZDNet
2. How to Search, Download and Install Software on Linux Using Ubuntu  BollyInside
3. How to Install Tor Browser on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf
4. How to work more efficiently with log files using Linux csvkit  TechRepublic
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Steam Deck Handheld Gaming PC Poised for Big Streaming Gains  Tom's Hardware