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Avidemux 2.8.1 Released with 8-Bit VP9 VDPAU Hardware Decoding, New Filters, and More  9to5Linux

Last week Linux 6.0-rc6 came in tiny due to many of the upstream kernel developers having been in Dublin for LPC 2022 and other events. Linus Torvalds had been fearing an uptick in activity this week as a result, but he's been pleasantly surprised that Linux 6.0-rc7 remains on the lighter side...

Linux 6.0-rc7 Released - Linux 6.0 Will Hopefully Release Next Sunday  Phoronix

10 Linux Command-Line Operators and What They Do  MUO - MakeUseOf

Queued up in the Btrfs for-next Git repository ahead of the Linux 6.1 merge window is support for async buffered writes that can offer a more than two times throughput improvement...

Btrfs Async Buffered Writes Slated For Linux 6.1 - 2x Throughput Improvement  Phoronix

Over the past year and a half of being on the Arch Linux install media, archinstall has made it dramatically quicker and easier to get this popular Linux distribution installed. Out today is Archinstall 2.5.1 with a number of fixes and other changes for this easy-to-use Arch Linux installer...

Archinstall 2.5.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix

Two new HID drivers are set to premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window for car and flight simulators...

New Car & Flight Controller HID Drivers Ready To Race With Linux 6.1  Phoronix

How to back up directly to Google Drive on Linux  AddictiveTips

Earlier this year AMD-Xilinx announced a Linux-powered robotics starter kit making use of Xilinx's Kria KR26 SOM featuring a Zynq Ultrascale+ with four Cortex-A53 cores and Mali graphics. While robotics focused, there is a DisplayPort output and over the summer Canonical has been working to get this board playing nicely with a Wayland-powered GNOME desktop...

Linux kernel developer Ard Biesheuvel has been working on a patch series implementing EFI generic compressed boot support that can be easily used by architectures like AArch64, LoongArch, and RISC-V...

Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1  Phoronix

Week in review: Revolut data breach, ManageEngine RCE flaw, free Linux security training courses  Help Net Security

How to Take Notes in the Linux Terminal With tnote  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Take Notes in the Linux Terminal With tnote  MUO - MakeUseOf

This week saw the Intel Habana Labs AI accelerator driver updates submitted to char/misc ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window...

OpenJDK/Java has been making progress on implementing native "pure" Wayland toolkit integration not dependent upon X.Org/X11 or XWayland for rendering of Java GUI applications...

How to Smoothly Make Windows 11 Look Like Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf