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Last week the main RISC-V pull for Linux 5.18 brought Sv57 five level page table support, improved PolarFire SoC support, an optimized MEMMOVE code, support for Restartable Sequences, and more. A second batch of RISC-V feature updates were sent out this week and now merged for making Linux 5.18 even better for this open processor ISA...

Should you upgrade to Windows 11? Here’s a list of missing features  WindowsLatest

7 Privacy-Focused Alternatives to Common Linux Software  MUO - MakeUseOf

7 Privacy-Focused Alternatives to Common Linux Software  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Write an ISO Image File to USB Flash With Etcher  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Change Root Password in Kali Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Change Root Password in Kali Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Install Dashlane password manager on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Google Claims Microsoft Makes Governments Less Secure  Thurrott.com

TheServerHost Launched United Kingdom, London, Manchester, Edinburgh VPS Server Hosting Plans with Linux and  EIN News

Yoko Redux dreams of Windows, Mac and Linux release  Adventure Gamers

Yoko Redux dreams of Windows, Mac and Linux release  Adventure Gamers

How to Get a Graphical Device Manager for Linux  BollyInside

A huge milestone has been reached in the rustc_codegen_gcc effort that aims to offer a GCC-based Rust compiler alternative to the LLVM-based official Rust compiler...

How to Install ADB on Windows PC, macOS, Linux/Chrome OS  BollyInside

As longtime Linux users likely know or even those reading Phoronix over the years, Wacom devices have generally worked well on Linux. Not that it should be particularly surprising, Wacom recently published a blog post talking up their twenty years of Linux support for their various drawing pens and tablets...

ReactOS as the open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows applications/games/drivers has made much progress over the past two decades but in some areas still lacking like still working on SMP/multi-core support and other functionality. To some surprise, some of the older Battlefield games are at least now in a playable state on ReactOS...

Following Intel's Arc A-Series mobile graphics introduction from earlier in the week, Intel open-source engineers have released their Media Driver/SDK 22.3.1 version that includes more DG2/Alchemist feature enablement...

With March wrapped up here is a look back at the most popular open-source Linux news and articles for the month...

Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March  Phoronix