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'We must become less reliant on American tools': Windows 11 is so bad the French government is switching to Linux — and Microsoft should be worried  TechRadar

Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11, and Linux Gaming Just Got Windows-Level Frame Pacing  Wccftech

The scheduler changes for Linux 7.1 are now in place and may bring performance benefits for at least some systems and workloads...

For pairing nicely with the GNOME 50 desktop release last month, a number of GNOME-associated apps have been seeing new features and refinements...

Merged this week for Linux 7.1 was a rework of the high resolution timer "HRTIMER" subsystem for reducing the overhead of frequently-armed timers, such as the HRTICK scheduler timer. The HRTICK scheduler timer is useful for enhancing system responsiveness and fairness...

Linux 7.1 Lands High Resolution Timer "HRTIMER" Overhaul  Phoronix

Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine  Notebookcheck

KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria. Also because of that developer sprint, This Week In Plasma wasn't published last week and so in turn a new issue is now available to highlight the changes over the past two weeks...

Shelly 2.1 Package Manager for Arch Linux Revamps AppImage Support  9to5Linux

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In this guide, we’ll show you how to use sort and uniq together to deduplicate, count, and summarize log file

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Linux 7.1 just killed one of dual-booting's biggest headaches  XDA

Tokyo IT firm chief arrested for allegedly abandoning body  The Japan Times

FRED Comes To Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)  Hackaday

FRED Comes To Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)  Hackaday

As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!..

The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Made public today was the Floating Point Divider State Sampling bug (stylized as FP-DSS or FPDSS) affecting original AMD Zen 1 (and Zen 1+) processors. The Linux kernel is already to go with a security fix for those still relying on the very first Ryzen or EPYC processors...

AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched  Phoronix

For those using upstream Wine for running your Windows games/apps on Linux rather than the likes of the Proton 11.0 beta, out today is Wine 11.7 as the newest bi-weekly development release...

AYN Odin 3 Handheld Linux Support Enables Snapdragon 8 Elite Desktop PC Performance Features  Technetbook