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Given the significant interest from Phoronix readers about how well Apple M2 performs on Linux, especially after it was noted Linus Torvalds using an Apple MacBook Air M2, here are the first of many benchmark articles to come looking at how well Apple's M2 performs under Linux against Intel/AMD x86_64 competition. The new Apple MacBook Air with M2 was benchmarked for this article against the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U "Rembrandt" Zen 3+, Intel Core i7 1280P "Alder Lake P", an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX "Cezanne H", and also for reference an Apple Mac Mini M1 model. All of these laptops were tested under Arch Linux (x86_64) and the Arch-based Asahi Linux (M1/M2).

Sandfly Security Expands Leadership Team, Formally Launches Commercial Operations with Release 4.0 of Agentless Linux Security™  PR Newswire

In addition to NVIDIA being busy working on transitioning to an open-source GPU kernel driver, yesterday they made a rare public open-source documentation contribution... NVIDIA quietly published 73k lines worth of header files to document the 3D classes for their Fermi through current-generation Ampere GPUs!..

AMD engineers have released an updated version of AOMP, their LLVM/Clang downstream that carries the company's latest patches around OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

Going back years has been an effort to get 30-bit deep color support on the GNOME desktop under Wayland. Ubuntu and others have been interested in getting 30-bit color support working nicely for the Linux desktop, but while that milestone hasn't yet been crossed, thankfully there is some renewed work in that direction...

The FreeBSD project has published their latest quarterly status report highlighting the advancements made to this open-source BSD operating system...

FreeBSD In Q2-2022: More Than 30k Ports, Driver Improvements, Better Linux Compatibility  Phoronix

Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack is another fun looking point and clicker coming  GamingOnLinux

Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack is another fun looking point and clicker coming  GamingOnLinux

A patch coming about earlier this year allows setting the system's hostname before user-space starts by way of the hostname= kernel parameter. That patch has now landed as part of Andrew Morton's accumulated changes for Linux 6.0...

3 Ways to install MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux  Linux Shout

Linux 6.0 Allows Setting The Hostname Via New "hostname=" Parameter  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.0 multimedia subsystem changes, the H.265/HEVC user-space API is now being considered stable...

The post How to Upgrade Linux Mint 20.3 to Linux Mint 21 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you do not wish to do a fresh Linux Mint 21 Vanessa installation, you can simply upgrade from an earlier version. In this article, we will walk you through the steps to upgrade

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Linux Software Market 2022 Strategic Assessment – Google, Twitter, Facebook – Shanghaiist  Shanghaiist

Windows, Linux ESXi servers targeted by novel GwisinLocker ransomware  SC Media

Linux SSH servers targeted by new RapperBot botnet  SC Media

Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Artemis Neo Is Now Available as a Minor Update  9to5Linux

How to Create Taskbar and Menu Entries for Linux Applications  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 10 Best Free Linux Firewall Tools  MUO - MakeUseOf