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Windowsfx is the Linux distribution Windows users have been looking for  TechRepublic

The 3 Best Alternatives to Mandriva Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Earlier this month AMD posted their initial public patches for the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver that leverages ACPI CPPC for ultimately aiming to provide better power efficiency and more responsive CPU frequency scaling / performance state decisions on Zen 3 (and Zen 2 eventually) processors. This is part of the effort around AMD and Valve collaborating for better Linux efficiency especially with the AMD-powered Steam Deck.

AMD's new Linux CPU driver for the Steam deck is showing promising results  TechSpot

JingPad Review: A Real Linux Tab for True Linux Fans  It's FOSS

Chrome 94 Released for Android, macOS, Windows, Linux: What's New  Gadgets 360

Building A Custom Linux Single Board Computer Just To Play Spotify  Hackaday

While the GNU Compiler Collection has supported OpenACC for a few years now as this parallel programming standard popular with GPUs/accelerators, the current implementation has been found to be inadequate for many real-world HPC workloads leveraging OpenACC. Fortunately, Siemens has been working to improve GCC's OpenACC kernels support...

Aya was presented during this week's Linux Plumbers Conference for improving the eBPF developer experience by allowing Rust programs to easily run within the kernel...

Aya Makes It Easy To Write Rust-Based eBPF Programs For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

UBports on Tuesday released Ubuntu Touch OTA-19 as the latest refinement to this Ubuntu Linux spin for smartphones and tablets...

Ktube Media Downloader lets you download YouTube videos easily on Linux  Technology Zimbabwe

LibreOffice is my productivity application of choice. It's one of the most potent reasons for recommending Linux distributions to educators and students, whether PK-12 or higher education. Now that the school year is upon us, I thought I would recommend some LibreOffice shortcuts and tips that might save you valuable time.

Work faster with keyboard shortcuts

I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Here are the most common shortcuts that apply to all LibreOffice applications.

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Logical Volume Manager (LVM) allows for a layer of abstraction between the operating system and the hardware. Normally, your OS looks for disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and so on) and partitions within those disks (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, and so on).

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On March 7, 2016, Microsoft announced the introduction of the MS SQL server in Linux systems. The goal was to deliver more flexibility for users and to do away with vendor lock-in with the

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Mesa point releases generally come every two weeks but for the past month have fallen off the wagon. Mesa 21.2.1 came in mid-August and on Tuesday was finally succeeded by Mesa 21.2.2 as a "late and very large" update...

DOS Subsystem for Linux: run Linux on DOS – OSnews  OS News

More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20 was released, it's set to finally be succeeded soon by X.Org Server 21.1 under its new versioning scheme. Out today is the X.org Server 21.1 release candidate...

Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent  Ars Technica

1. Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent  Ars Technica
2. More Open Source Jobs Remain Vacant With Scarcity of Skilled Linux Talent  TechNewsWorld
3. Enterprise Open Source Job Applicant Shortage Persists in 2021, Linux Foundation Survey Finds  EnterpriseAI
4. Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets  The Register
5. Linux Foundation: Open Source Hiring a Top Priority  WebProNews
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