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4MLinux 40 Distro Released with Linux Kernel 5.18, Improved 3D Support, and More  9to5Linux

How to Install Latest Vim 9.0 on Ubuntu & Linux Mint  It's FOSS

Submitted early ahead of tomorrow's Linux 5.19 stable kernel release are the SoC changes destined for the Linux 5.20 merge window. There are more than one thousand SoC patches for Linux 5.20 cycle adding and updating many SoCs and board/platform coverage. One of several notable additions this cycle is introducing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 support for high-end Arm laptops...

Linux 5.20 To Support The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3, ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop  Phoronix

SpiralLinux: New Distro Making Debian Easier for Beginners  It's FOSS

VMware Fusion 22H2: Windows And Linux On MacOS On Intel Core And Apple Silicon  Nation World News

What is a Chromebook?  Android Police

Wasmer's goal is to be "the universal WebAssembly runtime" with aiming to "run any code on any client" and with Wasmer 3.0 they are furthering the potential for this multi-language, multi-platform WASM stack...

The 64-bit Arm (ARM64) architecture updates have already been sent in for Linux 5.20 ahead of the merge window formally opening...

ARM64 With Linux 5.20 Improves Its Meltdown Mitigation KPTI Code  Phoronix

The first release candidate of LLVM 15.0 is now available for testing of this growing open-source compiler stack...

Introduced last year in Linux 5.15 was the Aquacomputer driver that started off as a hardware monitoring "HWMON" sensor driver supporting Aquacomputer's D5 Next water-cooling pump. In Linux 5.19 that driver was extended to support the Aquacomputer OCTO fan controller under Linux and now for v5.20 it's extended to support the company's QUADRO fan controller...

Aquacomputer Quadro Fan Controller Support Coming With Linux 5.20  Phoronix

KDE developers are wrapping up July with more bug fixes and other feature work underway for Plasma 5.26...

Persistent UEFI Trojan - Linux - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to create a Linux bootable USB | by Nithil Krishnaraj | Jul, 2022  Medium

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame who has recently been spending much work on improving Linux's "random" kernel code has sent out a proposal adding getrandom() support to the vDSO for better performance in seeking to better address the needs of user-space developers...

Linux Proposal Adding getrandom() To The vDSO For Better Performance  Phoronix

Wine 7.14 has been released as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

The Humble Amazing Adventures Bundle has some gems in it  GamingOnLinux