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Originally posted two years ago were Linux kernel patches for bringing up of CPU cores in parallel to speed-up the Linux boot process. With the growing core counts of servers and even high-end desktops / HEDT platforms, this parallel bring-up can lead to significant time savings at boot. The work, unfortunately, stalled but has now been revised...

Work Revived On Parallel CPU Bring-Up To Boot Linux Faster On Large Systems/Servers  Phoronix

What are VirtualBox guest snapshots and how do you take them?  ZDNet

What are VirtualBox guest snapshots and how do you take them?  ZDNet

8 Things You Should Never Do After Installing Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Dennis Rex  Linux Journal

SoCal Linux Expo Back For 20th Anniversary  Linux Journal

Following last month's release of systemd 253-rc1 with many new features and changes in tow, out today is a second release candidate and is piling yet more features into this Linux system and service manager...

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Events, Projects, and ...  HPCwire

Tuxera SMB Server Offers Novel Scale-out Feature Compatible With ...  Datanami

While there is Rusticl as the first Rust language code within Mesa as a modern OpenCL implementation in Gallium3D, for possible future driver efforts there is some initial exploratory work being done around coming up with bindings to support writing of Vulkan drivers with Rust...

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok is a Norse inspired horde ...  GamingOnLinux

How to install the Neo4j Desktop app and connect it to a remote server  TechRepublic

Sports management / visual novel mash-up Roller Drama is out now  GamingOnLinux

Zoom Platform, a store aimed at 'Generation X' adds more Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Zoom Platform, a store aimed at 'Generation X' adds more Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Google opens arms to VMware in the cloud and Microsoft 365 on ChromeOS  The Register

How to enable automatic updates in VirtualBox  TechRepublic

The GNU Debugger "GDB" has landed initial support for being able to debug AMDGPU/ROCm platform code with a preliminary focus on HIP programs...

Heroic Games Launcher 2.6.0 out now adding auto updates, new ...  GamingOnLinux