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digiKam 7.9 Open-Source Photo Management App Released with Various Improvements  9to5Linux

RHEL and its Linux relatives and rivals: How to choose  ZDNet

RHEL and its Linux relatives and rivals: How to choose  ZDNet

New MGLRU Linux Patches Look To Improve The Scalability Of Global Reclaim  Phoronix

Among the many exciting new features in Linux 6.1 is the merging of the Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" code as what has shaped up to be one of the best kernel innovations for 2022 for overhauling the Linux kernel's page reclamation code. The performance results already are very promising and MGLRU is being used successfully at Google and other large deployments. The work isn't over though on further advancing the kernel in this area...

Open-source Linux utility is being hijacked to hack devices  TechRadar

Linux Prepares to Launch Unix Version 6.1-rc8  The Tech Report

5 Ubuntu Linux Features You Should Be Using  How-To Geek

Linux 6.2 Looks To Enable "-funsigned-char" To Better Deal With Buggy Code  Phoronix

Among the early pull requests sent out already ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window opening next week is a change to enable "-funsigned-char" by default for Linux kernel builds. In preparation for this compiler flag change several fixes have already landed along with a lot of early testing, so any fallout is hoped to be minimal...

Sipeed M1s DOCK: PINE64 Ox64 rival launches for US$11 with microSD card expansion  Notebookcheck.net

Dwarf Fortress arrives on Steam, works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How to enable and disable systemd in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Windows Central

How to install ChromeOS Flex on a Chromebook  Android Police

Heroic Games Launcher gets a big Hotfix to clean up some issues  GamingOnLinux

Back in October AMD sent out their initial Zen 4 "znver4" enablement for the GCC compiler. That initial Zen 4 support was since merged for GCC 13 but that initial enablement carried over the cost tables from Zen 3 and didn't do much in the way of tuning but rather just flipping on the new instructions supported by the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 9004 series processors. Today there is finally some juicy tuning patches being sent out for GCC...

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying bug that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Valheim: Mistlands is out now with an animated trailer  GamingOnLinux

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory out now as the game is split up  GamingOnLinux