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One of my personal gripes with AMD's Zen CPU support on Linux has been the lack of timely support for CPU temperature monitoring with their "k10temp" driver. Even though usually just new IDs are often needed and sometimes needing to adjust offsets or other minor changes, it has traditionally been done post-launch and sometimes left up to patches from the open-source community. Thankfully that has been changing and with Zen 4 it looks like that support will be ready for launch-day with the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD Linux CPU Temperature Driver Sees Latest Patches For Zen 4 & Likely Mendocino  Phoronix

Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk  Network World

The 5 Best QR Code Generator Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

BIM News: Infurnia—design and collaborate in the cloud on any device  Architosh

postmarketOS v22.06 brings easier upgrades, UI improvements to the mobile Linux distro  Liliputing

To organize efforts around improving Fedora Linux for heterogeneous computing, a new special interest group "SIG" is looking to be established to help ensure the success of Fedora in the world of XPUs, the growing and very diverse software ecosystem around accelerators, etc...

Linux Mint Overhauls Cinnamon 5.4 Desktop for Anticipated OS Release  MUO - MakeUseOf

While not record-shattering like the 1.1 Exaflops Frontier supercomputer at ORNL that took the Top500 spot this year from Fugaku, LUMI was inaugurated today with the claim of Europe's most powerful supercomputer...

How to Rename a Directory on Linux  How-To Geek

How to Rename a Directory on Linux  How-To Geek

Install Joomla on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Linux  Linux Shout

AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer "RMV" tool from their GPUOpen initiative has allowed better understanding video memory usage with Windows across multiple APIs. In citing the "rising popularity of gaming on the Linux OS", AMD has now enabled Linux support for this tool...

Open source 'Office' options keep Microsoft running faster than ever  The Register

New Syslogk Linux rootkit uses magic packets to trigger backdoor  BleepingComputer

How to Use Nohup to Run Linux Scripts Unattended  Tom's Hardware

How to Use Nohup to Run Linux Scripts Unattended  Tom's Hardware

Systems Engineer (Linux Focus) at 2Cana Solutions  IT-Online

After battling Ceph storage issues and related problems for the past day after two solid-state drives failed, the FreeDesktop.org GitLab that is used for the centralized, coordination of the open-source Linux graphics driver development and other open-source software is back online...

Mozilla Thunderbird Open-Source Email Client Is Coming to Android Devices  9to5Linux