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How to Install Notepad++ on Linux  MakeUseOf

Linux Distributions Software Market 2021 : Industry Analysis with Business Scenario, Trends and Forecasts Report 2021 – 2029 – Energy Siren  Energy Siren

How to Install Notepad++ on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Distributions Software Market 2021 : Industry Analysis with Business Scenario, Trends and Forecasts Report 2019 to 2025 – Energy Siren  Energy Siren

Windows 11 Outperforms Linux With Alder Lake CPUs, Scheduler to Blame  Tom's Hardware

Windows 11 Outperforms Linux With Alder Lake CPUs, Scheduler to Blame  Tom's Hardware

Torvalds releases Linux 5.16 rc1 with a small but mighty upgrade  Techradar

Torvalds releases Linux 5.16 rc1 with a small but mighty upgrade  TechRadar

Linux 5.16 Features Include FUTEX2, Intel AMX, Folios, DG2/Alchemist, More Apple Silicon Support  Phoronix

Now that the Linux 5.16 merge window has ended with yesterday's Linux 5.16-rc1 release, here is my lengthy original overview of what I find most interesting out of this new kernel version. Linux 5.16 won't be out as stable until around the end of the calendar year or early next year, but it will sure make one nice Christmas gift with all of the shiny new features in tow.

With the big Blender 3.0 release due out near year's end there was the Cycles X rewrite that landed and unfortunately removed OpenCL support in the process. While that left AMD Radeon graphics without Blender GPU-accelerated support, in time for the v3.0 release there is now AMD HIP support in place...

Google has released Chrome 96 a day early as the latest routine update to their cross-platform web browser...

Monitoring Linux system resources with bpytop  Network World

Following a lot of improvements the past few years to the Intel Linux kernel graphics "i915" driver it looks like it's ready to enable run-time power management auto-suspend support by default...

Intel's Linux Graphics Driver To Allow Runtime Power Management Auto-Suspend By Default  Phoronix

The open-source Vulkan driver support for the video decode (and presumably after that, encode) extensions continues moving along for the Radeon "RADV" and Intel "ANV" Mesa drivers...

Patches were recently sent out that implement support for RISC-V's Scalar Cryptography Extension within the GNU Compiler Collection...

Command to add folder in linux path permanently  Linux Shout

Command to add folder in linux path permanently  H2S Media

Microsoft Edge for Linux Now Stable  InfoQ.com