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AMD SME causing boot failures and black screen issues on Ryzen Linux systems  Neowin

Linux To No Longer Enable AMD SME Usage By Default Due To Problems With Some Hardware  Phoronix

Being sent in as a fix for the Linux 5.15 kernel this morning and to be back-ported to existing stable series is a behavior change that the Linux kernel will no longer use AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) by default on supported hardware but rather making it now opt-in due to shortcomings of some platforms...

The Vortex86 32-bit SoCs have worked under Linux for those distributions still maintaining 32-bit x86 support and where not hitting corner-cases of some i686 level features not being supported by some Vortex86 cores, but there is finally a pending kernel patch to provide proper CPU detection for Vortex86 hardware...

It was just last week that Linux optimizations were leading to possible 6M IOPS per core and then at the start of this week new patches pushed Linux past 7M IOPS per-core with an ideal hardware configuration as well. In ending out the week, 8M IOPS has been reached!..

Cloud-Hypervisor 19.0 debuted this week as the Intel-led open-source VMM focused on supporting modern cloud workloads and written in the Rust programming language while leveraging the Linux's KVM virtualization code or the Microsoft MSHV hypervisor on Windows...

Meet 5 Linux Distributions That Will Make You Quit Windows – The Clare People  The Clare People

Open source arrived in the pen-and-paper RPG industry back at the turn of the century, when Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, developed the Open Game License (OGL). Many publishers have since adopted the OGL themselves or use similar licenses, such as Creative Commons.

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This Linux and Git training can be a big step in your web development career  The Next Web

Microsoft launches open source Linux version of system monitoring utility Sysmon  BetaNews

Arriving in the wireless-drivers-next branch this week is the "rtw89" driver as a Realtek-contributed open-source 802.11ax WiFi driver...

Cannaleafz CBD Gummies { Letest update }- What to Know Before Buy! - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

This week marked the release of Plasma 5.23 in celebrating 25 years of the KDE desktop project while celebrations didn't last long with developers already hard at work on the Plasma 5.23.1 point release, feature work for Plasma 5.24, and also improvements to the KDE Applications and KDE Frameworks...

The open-source Bareflank Hypervisor project designed to prototype new hypervisors across Intel, AMD, and AArch64 platforms issued their long-awaited 3.0 pre-release on Friday...

Visual Studio Code or Atom? Which Editor Should You Use?  It's FOSS

On Thursday in addition to the releases of Ubuntu 21.10 (plus its derivatives) and OpenBSD 7.0, the Genode OS Framework based Sculpt OS saw its 21.10 release...

The Khronos Group's OpenCL working group did a quiet Friday evening tagging of OpenCL 3.0.9...

How to Stop Distro-Hopping and Find the Perfect Linux Distro for Yourself  MUO - MakeUseOf

Is Linux a Waste of Time and Should You Stick to Windows?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Data center admins: Learn how to run a basic vulnerability scan on your Linux servers with Nessus  TechRepublic