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Much of the Rust programming language support/infrastructure for the Linux kernel thus far has been with an x86_64 focus while obviously AArch64 is an important target as well. It's nice to see Arm Limited engineers working on the Rust Linux kernel support for AArch64/ARM64...

Everything you need to know about Linux man pages  TechTarget

How to Schedule One-Time Jobs on Linux Using at  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Performance Impact From Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors  Phoronix

Arch Linux has five different officially supported kernel builds: stable, hardened, long-term. real-time, and Zen, but which of these is the fastest for desktop Arch Linux users? Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance out of these different kernel build options for Arch Linux and its derivatives.

How to schedule restarts and shutdowns on Linux  AddictiveTips

How to easily and quickly clean your system and free disk space with BleachBit  ZDNet

Atari announce another 80s classic revival with Caverns of Mars ...  GamingOnLinux

Google engineer Ilya Tocar has introduced the notion of "light" AVX support within the LLVM compiler infrastructure for utilizing some benefits of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) but trying to avoid the power/frequency impact that AVX-512 use has on older generations of Intel processors...

Ubuntu 23.04 Makes Telegram a Deb-to-Snap Transitional Package  OMG! Ubuntu!

Hitting the linux-firmware.git tree this morning were new AMDGPU firmware files for IP blocks found on upcoming hardware. It's likely these new firmware files are for the forthcoming Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors with RDNA3 graphics...

U-boot now supports booting Linux from an HTTP server  CNX Software

U-boot now supports booting Linux from an HTTP server  CNX Software

Why less may be more when building Web3  Cointelegraph

Lots more EA games get a Steam Deck Playable rating  GamingOnLinux

Intel Meteor Lake VPU Accelerator Support Ready For Linux 6.3  Phoronix

Among the numerous exciting aspects of Intel's next-generation Meteor Lake client processors is the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) inference accelerator for Computer Vision (CV) and Deep Learning (DL) workloads...

Factorio is about to increase in price so be quick  GamingOnLinux

After Microsoft engineers got Vulkan 1.0 conformance tests to nearly 100% for their Dozen "Dzn" Mesa driver, they have now enabled Vulkan 1.1 support as their next step for this Vulkan-atop-Direct3D 12 open-source implementation...

LLVM 16 feature development is now officially over with the code having been branched, LLVM 17.0 development now happening with the mainline code, and LLVM 16.0 stable hoping to officially release in early March...