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Nginx as the lightweight web-server known for its speedy performance is out today with the version 1.22 feature release...

Systemd v251 with GNU11 could prove troublesome for users of nearly all Linux distros  Neowin

Linux Continues Playing Catch Up To Windows For Desktop Hardware Monitoring Support  Phoronix

In recent kernel versions there has been an uptick in new driver activity around improving hardware sensor monitoring support for AMD/Intel desktop motherboards, but still it's generally behind that of the support found under Microsoft Windows. With Linux 5.19 there is more hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem work with improving sensor coverage on various motherboards and other components...

How to Install PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

pdfgrep: Use Grep Like Search on PDF Files in Linux Command Line  It's FOSS

Version 251 of systemd coming soon to a Linux distro near you  The Register

Best Strategy Games for Linux of 2022 May  BollyInside

How to Play Music From the Linux Terminal With cmus  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenLogic by Perforce Announces Sponsorship of Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation  RealWire

OpenLogic by Perforce Announces Sponsorship of Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation  PR Newswire

Mir 2.8 is now available as the newest feature update to this Wayland compositor developed by Canonical for various Ubuntu use-cases, primarily around IoT, digital signage, and similar fields...

At the end of last year Amazon announced their new Graviton3 processors with around 25% more compute performance than their prior Graviton2 AArch64 processors, up to 2x the FP and crypto performance, DDR5 system memory support, and other improvements to their in-house processor for the AWS cloud. Yesterday the C7g instances reached general availability for making Graviton3 processors available to AWS customers. Here are some initial benchmarks.

Among many Intel driver improvements in Linux 5.19, Intel's new "In-Field Scan" (IFS) driver has now premiered in the mainline kernel for testing future processors against any silicon issues prior to deployment or as the processors age...

Linux Operating System Market Share 2022: Top Players (Manjaro, Elementary, Inc, Fedora Linux), Trends and Industry Expansion Strategies and Forecast to 2029  Digital Journal

What started out as hopes of enabling RADV ray-tracing by default has led to initially ray queries being enabled by default...

How to Install Ghost CMS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) as security-related extensions to their processors that allow for protected memory enclaves has had a rather bouncy journey. Intel continues supporting SGX on their latest Xeon processors but on the client side have been deprecated since 11th Gen Core. Over the years SGX has been found vulnerable to various attacks from speculative execution exploits to Plundervolt. It also turns out under Linux until now was also open to crashing under memory pressure...

Intel SGX Enclaves Were Prone To Crashes On Linux Under Heavy Memory Pressure  Phoronix

The Linux kernel's printk() function for printing messages to the kernel log continues to be improved upon in 2022...