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Synology DiskStation Vs QNAP Vs TerraMaster: Which NAS Device Is Best for SMBs?  Spiceworks News and Insights

How (and Why) to Disable Root Login Over SSH on Linux  How-To Geek

ONLYOFFICE 7.2 Released with Various New Features & Improvements  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Linux Writing Contest 2022: Final Results Announced!  hackernoon.com

Miguel Ojeda who has led the work on the Rust programming language infrastructure support for the Linux kernel today posted the tenth version of these patches. It is these Rust v10 patches that are expected to be mainlined as soon as next week for the Linux 6.1 kernel merge window...

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker  The Register

Better than Ubuntu? 11 Best Linux Distros for Ubuntu Lovers  It's FOSS

JSAUX released a firmware update for their Steam Deck Docking Stations  GamingOnLinux

Mellow indie adventure One Dreamer is out now  GamingOnLinux

Understanding the "fork bomb" an 11 character string that can crash Windows, Mac, or Linux machines  Boing Boing

How to check KVM is installed in Ubuntu Linux  Linux Shout

Best Kali Linux Laptops in 2022  BollyInside

As further indication of MGLRU hopefully being mainlined for Linux 6.1 as planned, the Multi-Gen LRU patches have now been moved to Andrew Morton's mm-stable branch...

MGLRU Patches Merged To "mm-stable" Ahead Of Linux 6.1 - New Benchmarks Look Good  Phoronix

Rust for Steam Deck / Linux still some time away  GamingOnLinux

Last week I wrote about how Microsoft landed a VA-API improvement in Mesa to support faster Video Acceleration API encoding with FFmpeg. That code was initially only wired up for the Microsoft D3D12 driver within Mesa for WSL use-cases, but now AMD has taken advantage of the new capability for RadeonSI Gallium3D usage with their Radeon GPUs...

System76 Won't Release Pop!_OS 22.10 Linux Distro: Here's Why!  It's FOSS News

There have been some notable merges this week for Mesa 22.3, particularly as it concerns the open-source Radeon graphics driver code...

Pyston as what was born at Dropbox as a speedy open-source Python implementation is out with a new update as it continues to focus on maximizing performance. Dropbox ceased work on Pyston years ago while the developers continued and since last year joined Anaconda to continue their performant Python quest...

VKD3D 1.5 was recently tagged as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation used by Wine and originally an upstream to Valve's VKD3D-Proton. VKD3D 1.5 has been integrated into Wine Git ahead of next week's Wine 7.19 release...