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Surfshark VPN for Linux gets proper GUI  BetaNews

While Intel has long supported GPU-based video decode acceleration on Linux using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) and more recently via oneVPL under their oneAPI umbrella, with their Intel Media Driver stack they have begun offering support for video decoding using the cross-platform video acceleration extensions to the Vulkan API...

Just in time for Arch Linux's June 2022 monthly ISO refresh, Archinstall 2.5 was released today as the newest version of this text-based Arch Linux installer...

How to Easily Create QR Codes on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Easily Create QR Codes on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Arch Linux’s Menu-Based Installer Gets New Disk Preview, FIDO2 Support, and More  9to5Linux

A Microsoft-contributed fix as part of their Hyper-V updates for the Linux 5.19 kernel can shave minutes off their Azure VM boot times when launching a virtual machine with numerous GPUs...

The EFI changes for the Linux 5.19 kernel bring a few interesting changes, including the ability to access secrets injected into the boot image via Confidential Computing "CoCo" hypervisors...

The Chrome platform updates for Linux 5.19 bring various fixes as well as a new ChromeOS ACPI device driver, but for the most part is relatively basic. One notable addition though is the Framework Laptop now having support by cros_ec_lpcs with that modular Linux laptop making use of Google's ChromeOS embedded controller...

AMD could be readying a super-cheap GPU to tackle Nvidia's rumored GTX 1630  TechRadar

AMD could be readying a super-cheap GPU to tackle Nvidia's rumored GTX 1630  TechRadar

A new version of Distrobox was released today, the open-source system that allows quickly and easily launching different distributions from your terminal via Podman or Docker. Distrobox has been a popular option for augmenting the package selection/versions available on your system or as well for firing up faster versions of software...

The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 5.19 merge window are on the heavier side with this pull being described as "a big update with lots of new code" abound for this summer 2022 kernel release...

XFS With Linux 5.19 Brings "Lots Of New Code"  Phoronix

Embedded Software Market by Type (OS X, Windows, GNU / Linux), Application (Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Electronics , Military & Defense, Industrial, Telecommunication), and Geography – Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019-2029 – Man  ManufactureLink

Linux 5.19 Allows EFI Accessing VM Secrets For Confidential Computing / AMD SEV  Phoronix

Annotate PDFs On Linux With PDFrankenstein  Hackaday

While PipeWire continues gaining traction for fulfilling the audio management roles long handled by PulseAudio, the PulseAudio project itself continues progressing and successfully evolving its mature code-base. Out this weekend is PulseAudio 16.0...

PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements  Phoronix

How to Change File Extensions on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf