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Earlier this year AMD's GPUOpen team announced the Orochi project for dynamic HIP/CUDA run-time handling. Orochi makes it easier for application developers to ship AMD HIP and NVIDIA CUDA support within a single code-base / binary that is then selected at run-time based on the GPU in use...

Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 5.15  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Best Open Source Tools to Secure Your Linux Server  Make Tech Easier

The Best Open Source Tools to Secure Your Linux Server  Make Tech Easier

Heroic Games Launcher gets an emergency hotfix for Epic Games Store logins  GamingOnLinux

How to install Webmin 2.0 on Ubuntu Server 22.04  TechRepublic

How to install Webmin 2.0 on Ubuntu Server 22.04  TechRepublic

Kubuntu Linux developers launch Focus NX mini PC with Intel Tiger Lake CPU and two Thunderbolt 3 connectors  Notebookcheck.net

Vulkan 1.3.226 is out this morning and to much excitement adds the VK_EXT_mesh_shader extension as cross-vendor functionality for mesh shaders!..

GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers For The Apple M2 On Linux  Phoronix

With the Apple M2 running Asahi Linux you may be wondering whether it's better to use the GCC compiler as is the default on upstream Arch Linux or whether going for LLVM Clang will yield better performance given all the LLVM/Clang usage by AArch64 vendors, including Apple's own Xcode compiler toolchain making use of it. If you are wondering about GCC vs. Clang for building binaries on the Apple M2, here are some benchmarks.

Microsoft to Use the Mariner Linux Distro Exclusively for Its Xbox Storefronts  WinBuzzer

Microsoft to Use the Mariner Linux Distro Exclusively for Its Xbox Storefronts  WinBuzzer

Linux devices 'increasingly' under attack from hackers, warn security researchers  ZDNet

Back in 2013 when AMD was pushing their Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) they joined The Document Foundation and wanted to make use of OpenCL acceleration within this open-source office suite. Shortly thereafter they added many OpenCL functions to LibreOffice but now a decade later it seems to be of little use but at least this week thanks to a Collabora engineer there has been some OpenCL code cleaning for this free software office suite...

Inspired by Microsoft's compiler toolchain having a "std:c++latest" option for automatically targeting the latest supported C++ spec, GCC compiler developers have been discussing the possibility of a similar feature with the ability to specify -std=c++current for the current C++ standard or -std=c++future for the future/draft specification...

One of the interesting capabilities with Thunderbolt and now USB4 that is seemingly not too widely used is for networking between systems. The Linux kernel for the past half-decade already has offered a Thunderbolt networking driver for networking between hosts with Thunderbolt cables. The latest improvement on this front is now supporting USB4's end-to-end flow control mode...

Linux 6.1 Thunderbolt Networking To Support USB4 End-To-End Flow Control  Phoronix

For the open-source software popular for screen-casting and videogame live-streaming, OBS Studio 28.0 was released today as a big feature update...

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Rocky Linux 9.0 was made generally available on July 14, 2022. It comes with a boatload of new features and improvements and will enjoy support and maintenance until May 31, 2032. The previous release,

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