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FreeDesktop.org GitLab Down Due To Drive Failures  Phoronix

postmarketOS 22.06 Brings Plasma Mobile 22.04 and Release Upgrades to Linux Phones  9to5Linux

KDE Frameworks 5.95 Released with More Than 180 Changes for Plasma and KDE Apps  9to5Linux

Boot Mainline Linux On Apple A7, A8 And A8X Devices  Hackaday

Boot Mainline Linux On Apple A7, A8 And A8X Devices  Hackaday

Ventoy Now Supports More Than 900 ISOs, Enables Secure Boot by Default  9to5Linux

In addition to all of the Linux 5.19 feature changes, sent in today for the Linux 5.19-rc2 release later today were some additional x86 platform driver updates. Sent in as part of the "fixes" for the week were some new device IDs adding in some new hardware support to existing drivers...

Linux 5.19 Adds In Raptor Lake P For Intel PMC Driver, More Gigabyte Boards For Sensors  Phoronix

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Booming Worldwide With Leading Key Players -Google, SG WORK, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Apple Inc, Kingsoft, Yozodcs, WordPerfect, Tencent, Shimo, yiqixie.com – Indian Defence News  Indian Defence News

Portainer: How to add a Kubernetes Environment – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

Introduced in the early 80's for the Motorola 68000 series was Versa Module Eurocard "VMEbus" standard that continues to see industrial uses. While still seeing some reported use today, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the quality of the VMEbus Linux support. After the VME subsystem was promoted out of staging a decade ago, the VME hardware drivers failed to ever leave staging and the code has fallen into disrepair and no maintenance now for the past half-decade. So the VME subsystem support is preparing to depart back to the land of the kernel's staging area...

Four Decades After Introduction, Linux's VMEbus Support To Return To Demoted State  Phoronix

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák landed more than two dozen patches this weekend fixing up Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) Stream-Out / Transform Feedback functionality for RDNA/RDNA2 GPUs ahead of the NGG Stream-Out enabling for upcoming RDNA3 graphics cards...

Last month I wrote about a new set of Linux patches that provide for better power management on AMX-enabled "Sapphire Rapids" servers. The patches help ensure AMX-enabled CPUs can reach their lower power states for maximum power-savings and that also helps ensure other CPU cores have a larger thermal/power budget for hitting their rated turbo frequencies. That change/fix will be coming in the Linux 5.20 cycle later this summer...

José Expósito continues with recently stepping up to manage libinput releases, the input handling library that for the modern Linux desktop is now widely used across both X.Org and Wayland environments. Libinput 1.21 debuted this weekend with various improvements over the prior release...

Libinput 1.21 Released With Improvements To Flat Acceleration Profile For Touchpads  Phoronix

Established a few months ago was the Open-Source Firmware Foundation to promote open-source firmware usage throughout the industry. LinuxBoot is now the latest party joining the Open-Source Firmware Foundation...

DragonFlyBSD 6.2 was introduced back in January with the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver port, HAMMER2 improvements, and the NVMM hypervisor port, among other improvements. Out this weekend is DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 with various bug-fixes atop that stable code-base...

8 Things to Do Right After You Install Fedora Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market would Register a Healthy Growth of USD 49.93 billion by 2027 :, AT&T Mobility, CiscSystems, Baidu, Ericsson, D2 Technologies, Motorola Solutions, Fujitsu, IBM, Huawei Technologies, The Linux F  Indian Defence News