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Secure Boot Disabled? GNOME Will Soon Warn You About it!  It's FOSS News

During the month of June the Steam on Linux usage hit a multi-year high point of 1.18% while for July there is another tick upwards thanks to the continued interest in Linux gaming around the Steam Deck...

Steam For Linux In July Shows A 1.23% Marketshare, AMD CPUs Now More Common Than Intel On Linux  Phoronix

DECnet as a set of networking protocols from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that date back to 1975 are expected to be finally removed from the Linux kernel. The DECnet protocols have long been obsolete, the Linux kernel implementation has been orphaned for more than one decade, and is code that belongs more in a history museum than the mainline kernel...

How to create a Linux virtual machine with VirtualBox  ZDNet

How to install Android Studio on an ARM-powered Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

IO_uring continues to be one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations in recent years and with the in-development Linux 6.0 kernel is getting even better along with some nice block updates and other storage-related enhancements...

This GNOME Extension Brings ‘Material You’ Vibes to Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21 is now available  Ghacks

Ingo Molnar today submitted the main set of kernel scheduler updates for the in-development Linux 6.0 (nee 5.20). The scheduler updates contain some notable changes that will be interesting to benchmark in the days ahead...

Sven Peter who has worked a lot on various aspects of Apple Silicon enablement for Linux today posted the patches enabling Apple Bluetooth driver support for Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware and also for some Apple x86 Macs...

Linux Driver Posted Enabling Bluetooth Support For Apple M1/M2, Some x86 Macs  Phoronix

Stealth-action game Republique is now FREE and Steam Deck Verified  GamingOnLinux

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure  The Register

APT vs. DNF vs. YUM: Linux Package Managers Compared  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

How to Secure Your Linux Servers With SELinux  Make Tech Easier

Padloc: An Intuitive Open-Source Password Manager  It's FOSS

KIOXIA Introduces Sample PCIe NVMe Technology-Based Flash Hardware for the Linux Foundation's Software-Enabled Flash Community Project  Business Wire

Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.0 merge window (nee Linux 5.20) are a few AMD additions worth mentioning...