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This article covers the configuration of a CI pipeline for a C++ project on GitLab. My previous articles covered how to set up a build system based on CMake and VSCodium and how to integrate unit tests based on GoogleTest and CTest. This article is a follow-up on extending the configuration by using a CI pipeline. First, I demonstrate the pipeline setup and then its execution.

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6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  Linux Shout

6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  H2S Media

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2022: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs, SG WORK, Tencent, yiqixie.com, Kingsoft etc….  Bristol City Supporters Trust

Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build  Phoronix

While many Linux enthusiasts like to cite Linux's stellar support for older hardware platforms, in reality that isn't always the case. For instance with many old X.Org user-space mode-setting drivers for powering old graphics cards at least for display purposes, they can no longer even build with with modern toolchains / software components. Given the lack of bug reports around such issues, there are very likely few users trying some of these vintage hardware combinations...

Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi's latest multi-distro demo image  Liliputing

That puppy linux is quite difficult - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Debian-based Nitrux 2.0.0 Linux distribution now available with KDE Plasma 5.23.5  BetaNews

While it shouldn't be too surprising given Intel's open-source track record, but with the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel are once again many prominent additions from new/future hardware support to enabling exciting features...

Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs To Get Resizable BAR Support on Linux Platforms  Wccftech

Linus Torvalds' schedule due to travels remains a bit off and as such Linux 5.17-rc2 is already available this morning...

AMD open-source engineers sent out a request for comments on a new kernel feature called "PAN", or Process Adaptive autoNUMA. Early numbers shown by AMD indicate that PAN can help with performance in some workloads on their latest server hardware by a measurable amount...

One of the promising new BSD projects started over the past year was helloSystem as "the macOS of BSDs" and built atop FreeBSD but with a macOS-inspired design. A Phoronix reader has pointed out another entrant in this field with airyxOS as a FreeBSD-based operating system designed to be similar to Apple's macOS experience...

airyxOS Aims To Build Upon FreeBSD With The "Finesse of macOS"  Phoronix

The latest GNOME 42 feature work to mention is a ten month old merge request landing that cleans up and improves the XWayland termination for when there are no more X11 clients running within the GNOME Wayland session...

One of the additions with EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors introduced last year was SEV-SNP as the "Secure Nested Paging" addition to AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization found with EPYC processors. While they have maintained an out-of-tree Linux source repository with the SEV-SNP patches, the mainline kernel is still lacking support for these latest security features but the code continues to undergo revisions and review for its eventual upstreaming...

For those interested in using Distrobox to augment your operating system's package selection, not all containers are created equally. Distrobox developer Luca Di Maio recently did some tests for looking at the Linux container performance...

Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains  Phoronix

What happens to all the Windows 10 devices that are incompatible with Windows 11 in 2025?  Ghacks Technology News