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Want to save your aging computer? Try these Linux distributions  ZDNet

Onlive Server A Foremost Linux Based Cloud Turkey VPS Server...  MENAFN.COM

MX Linux 21.2 "Wildflower" Lands, Keeping Things Simple  MUO - MakeUseOf

MX Linux 21.2 "Wildflower" Lands, Keeping Things Simple  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to kill a process in Linux  ZDNet

The UEFI Forum has published the UEFI 2.10 and ACPI 6.5 specifications to make these standards more adaptable to IoT platforms and other new device support from the LoongArch processor architecture to CXL memory support...

Is Linux Lite the Simple, Fast, and Lightweight Linux Distro You Need?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Desktops and Hardware Enablement - It’s Time for a Change  hackernoon.com

Following last week's initial batch of Intel i915 GT updates for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.1, today a new pull request was issued of drm-intel-next material that is primed for Linux 6.1...

Intel Prepping DisplayPort Multi-Stream Support for Arc GPUs on Linux  Tom's Hardware

MX Linux 21.2 Released with Linux Kernel 5.18, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11.4  9to5Linux

SPECviewperf 2020: GPU Viewport Performance In Linux & Windows  Techgage

An interesting commit made it into the open-source PostgreSQL database server this morning...

Along with all the other ongoing Linux work for Arc Graphics, another feature patch series from Intel worth mentioning is they have been buttoning up work on DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport Display Stream Compression (MST DSC) functionality...

Intel Revises Linux Graphics Driver Support For DP MST Display Stream Compression  Phoronix

Back in early June AMD engineers began posting support for enabling Virtual NMI on Linux for AMD CPUs with KVM and permitting hardware support. VNMI is expected to finally happen on the AMD side with Zen 4 processors and today they posted their latest revision of this work...

AMD Posts Latest VNMI Patches For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Last week I wrote about Mesa's R300 Gallium3D driver seeing new optimizations for R300~R500 class GPUs from the ATI days, thanks to the open-source community. Another merge request is now open that finishes up the latest optimization spree for these old pre-AMD GPUs on Linux...

Latest Round Of Optimizations Wrap Up For Old ATI R300 To R500 GPUs On Linux  Phoronix

The ASpeed "AST" DRM driver that is for use with ASpeed BMCs on server platforms for display capabilities is preparing to see DMA-BUF and PRIME sharing support. This is useful so the ASpeed BMC can see the screen contents even if the server is relying on a discrete GPU rather than the baseboard management controller's monitor output...