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Intel engineers have been working heavily on the Linux's Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for kernel. As the next step in that endeavor, pending now is the CXL memory driver that looks like it will make its introduction in Linux 5.18...

How to Test Linux Distros Online 2022 Tip  BollyInside

A security researcher presented at last weekend's Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) conference around mitigating processor vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown but without negligible performance cost...

While Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can provide some big performance boosts when software is properly tuned for it and most often we are writing about projects adding support for it, in the case of LibreOffice they are now going ahead and removing their AVX and AVX-512 tuning...

The newest code Microsoft has contributed to Mesa for its D3D12 driver, which is used for running OpenGL / OpenGL ES / OpenCL (and eventually Vulkan) over Direct3D 12 for use on Windows and WSL2, is Direct3D residency management support...

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How to use the braces extension in Linux Bash Shell  BollyInside

Should You Use a New, Obscure Linux Distro or Stick With the Mainstream Ones?  It's FOSS News

VMware Finds Linux Malware on the Rise – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

Although its popularity has been tempered by languages like Python, Lua, and Go, Perl was one of the primary utilitarian languages on Unix and Linux for 30 years. It remains an important and powerful component in many open source systems today. If you haven't used Perl much, then you may be surprised by how helpful it can be for many tasks. This is especially true if you deal with large amounts of text in your day-to-day work.

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Users say that Firefox 97 fixes hardware video acceleration issues on Linux  Ghacks Technology News

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Firefox browser is the default browser for most modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora. Initially, its performance might be impressive, however, with the passage of time, you might notice that your

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“Introduction to Linux” Course, With One Million Learners, Launches a Version in Spanish  IBL News

Btrfs file-system developers remain very busy on multiple fronts from performance and reliability enhancements to in-development Btrfs on-disk format changes. A notable item now on deck for integration in Linux 5.18 is Btrfs support for encoded I/O...

Turning The PS4 Into A Useful Linux Machine  Hackaday

How to Install NordVPN on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 9 Best KDE-Based Distros for Avid Linux Users  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Now Faster Than Windows 11 For Intel Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" With Latest Kernel  Phoronix

Back in November when Intel's 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors first launched I ran benchmarks across operating systems and found Windows 11 delivering better performance than Linux with the Core i9 12900K flagship processor. Fortunately, thanks to kernel improvements since Linux 5.16, that is largely no longer the case. Here is a fresh look at the i9-12900K performance under Ubuntu 22.04 daily with Linux 5.16 and 5.17-rc3 kernels tested as well and Clear Linux for Intel's very own reference Linux platform.