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Valve today hosted the much anticipated Steam Deck Development Livestream where they and their partners at AMD talked more about the forthcoming Steam Deck's hardware and software...

Computers Use Processes, So Should You  LinuxInsider.com

RHEL 8.5 delivers key container improvements  ZDNet

When writing this morning about intel "Raptor Lake" Linux enablement to begin, I didn't expect that to bear fruit so quickly in just a matter of hours... As predicted, that Linux bring-up for the Alder Lake successor is beginning now -- and doing so at full-speed with the initial Raptor Lake S (RPL-S) graphics support being posted...

AMD this week quietly released Radeon Software for Linux 21.40.1 as a fundamentally big update for this packaged driver stack targeting enterprise Linux distributions...

Creating a Horizon Linux Client Part 1: Installing Ubuntu 20 Server  Virtualization Review

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Linux users: These text-based file managers are overlooked gems  TechRepublic

Linux users: These text-based file managers are overlooked gems  TechRepublic

Following Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan translation driver finally running "glxgears" in a correct and performant manner, the newest milestone acheived by lead Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz is managing to run Wayland's Weston compositor...

Linux To Start Seeing Enablement Patches For Intel "Raptor Lake"  Phoronix

Following today's inaugural patch, over the coming weeks we are expected to see Intel Raptor Lake patches beginning to make it out onto the public kernel mailing list for review...

Rough, tough vehicle-mount computer runs Linux on i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

AlmaLinux Community Delivers Third Stable Linux Release Within 48 Hours of Upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5  Business Wire

Actiphy Inc., Releases ActiveImage Protector 2022 Backup and Recovery Solution Featuring Direct-To-Cloud Backup and In-Cloud Recovery  Yahoo Finance

Windows 11 Better Than Linux Right Now For Intel Alder Lake Performance  Phoronix

While we are used to running AMD and Intel benchmarks between Microsoft Windows and Linux while most often finding that our favorite open-source operating systems normally lead the race from desktops through HEDT and server platforms, when it comes to the Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" that is currently not the case. Going into this round of Windows vs. Linux testing quite curious given some Intel hybrid architecture oddities we have been seeing under Linux, indeed when hitting Windows 11 and an assortment of Linux distributions with benchmarks we were left disappointed. Not only did Windows 11 come out faster overall, but related is now Linux also had much higher run-to-run variance due to the mix of P and E cores with Thread Director not making the wisest choices under Linux.

What's the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager in Linux?  TechRepublic

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service  The Register

The Ceph open-source distributed storage system can now enjoy better performance out-of-the-box with Linux 5.16...