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Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly  Ars Technica

Lightweight Linux Desktop Xfce 4.18 Released After Two Years With Small Tweaks  MUO - MakeUseOf

With the Linux 6.2 kernel the NFSD code is taking another step closer to removing the older NFSv2 support...

Linux Moves Another Step Closer To Removing Ancient NFSv2 Support  Phoronix

PineTab 2 is another try at a Linux-based tablet, without the 2020 supply crunch  Ars Technica

Ahead of 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable, Xeon CPU Max, and Intel Data Center GPUs shipping, Intel today announced the oneAPI 2023 tools release...

Microsoft warns of new Minecraft DDoS malware infecting Windows, Linux  BleepingComputer

The KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop, which is to be the last Plasma 5 feature release before Plasma 6.0, is poised to introduce revamped multi-monitor handling...

Last month when AMD launched the EPYC 9004 "Genoa" series they also published AOCC 4.0 as the newest version of the AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler derived from LLVM/Clang and tailored to their latest Zen microarchitecture. At the time I ran some AOCC 4.0 benchmarks on the Ryzen 7000 series and compared it to GCC and Clang. Since then I've had the time on my Genoa test rig to look at how well AOCC 4.0 is performing and in this article are some benchmarks with the EPYC 9374F processors between GCC and AOCC 4.0.

Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps's dominance  Android Police

RazerGenie, a Qt app for configuring your Razer devices version 1.0 ...  GamingOnLinux

Well known Mesa developer Marek Olšák has for years meticulously optimized the RadeonSI driver and before that R600g and R300g where he got his start as a student developer. Besides ensuring the AMD Radeon OpenGL performance is in great shape for Linux gaming, he's also spent much time more recently in focusing on workstation OpenGL performance and with that the common SPECViewPerf benchmark. This week he landed another set of patches providing around a 7.5% improvement for one of the SPECViewPerf tests...

Intel IFS Ready To Weed Out Faulty Silicon With Linux 6.2  Phoronix

The x86/microcode changes that were merged this week into the Linux 6.2 kernel address prior shortcomings with the Intel In-Field Scan (IFS) driver so it's now deemed ready to help in spotting out faulty silicon across a fleet of systems in production or prior to commissioning new hardware...

Ampere Computing is the latest major vendor now backing the Cloud Hypervisor Project hosted by the Linux Foundation as a Rust-written VMM focused on running modern cloud workloads in a fast and secure manner...

The FUSE kernel code for supporting "File-Systems In User-Space" has ready several updates for Linux 6.2 including some performance optimizations...

How to Install Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu  groovyPost

Intel Alder Lake-N & Raptor Lake-P CPUs To See Huge Power Management Improvements in Linux 6.2  Wccftech

How to Empty a File in Linux  groovyPost

Siemens ports Sokol Linux to RISC-V ...  eeNews Europe