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Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year  Phoronix

With the forthcoming Linux 5.17 kernel there is the new AMD P-State driver aiming to provide better power efficiency than the ACPI CPUFreq driver that has long been used on AMD platforms. For complementing that AMD P-State driver, AMD has also been working on adding their CPU P-State support to Linux's cpupower tool...

Ahead of the Steam Deck beginning to ship at month's end, Valve overnight released Proton 7.0-1 as the newest version of their software that allows many Windows games to run on Linux with great success. Proton 7.0 is rebased against the new upstream Wine 7.0 while also having many other changes in tow...

Proton 7.0 Released With More Games Running On Linux, EAC Support, Many Other Updates  Phoronix

Valve Releases Proton 7.0 with Major Improvements for Linux Gaming  9to5Linux

Linux squeezes better performance out of Intel Alder Lake CPUs than Windows 11  TechRadar

When I finish with a project, I often like to take all the files I've created for the project and put them into an archive. It not only saves space, but it gets those files out of my way, and prevents them from turning up as results when I use find and grep to search through files I consider current.

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OSS-Fuzz is a free service that continuously runs fuzzers for open source projects. This GitHub repository manages the service and enrolling in it is handled by pull requests.

Once a project has integrated with OSS-Fuzz, the fuzzers affiliated with that project run daily—continuously and indefinitely. OSS-Fuzz emails maintainers when a bug is found and also has a dashboard with details about all issues found (stack traces, artifacts for reproducing issues, and so on).

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How to Install Microsoft Fonts on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Old used Dell xps for Manjaro/arch Linux + MacBook Air M2 base OR MacBook Pro M2 running Arch in VM ?  Mac Rumors

How to Clean Up Snap Package Versions in Linux [Quick Tip]  It's FOSS

Google's Linux-based Chrome OS Flex is a huge threat to Windows 11, and Microsoft should be extremely worried  BetaNews

Gigabyte and Canonical today announced that they will be working together to certify Gigabyte server hardware moving forward for use under Ubuntu Server...

How to Crack Passwords Using Hashcat on Linux  BollyInside

Bosch SDS receives the Linux and Open-Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization - CRN - India  CRN.in

How to uninstall WSL Linux instance in Windows 11  BollyInside

Last June the Linux kernel disabled support for Intel's ENQCMD instructions as the kernel support was found to be "broken beyond repair" for this feature that's part of the Data Streaming Accelerator with upcoming Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors. Fortunately, now in time for Sapphire Rapids ramping up, Intel engineers have fixed up the ENQCMD code and looks like the next Linux kernel cycle will re-enable the functionality...

Back in November NVIDIA announced their open-source Image Scaling SDK with cross-platform GPU support to better position their DLSS technology given the ground that AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) has been gaining. The Image Scaling SDK is complementary to DLSS but still requires integration on the behalf of the game/engine developer. Today marks a new update to the NVIDIA Image Scaling SDK...

The 8 Most Beautiful Linux Distros to Please Your Visual Senses  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Linux Bash Shell on Windows 11/10 PC  BollyInside