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Distrobox: Try Multiple Linux Distributions via the Terminal  It's FOSS

How to Set Up a Postfix Mail Server on Debian  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX On Blender 3.2  Phoronix

Last week with the release of Blender 3.2 bringing AMD HIP support for Linux to provide for Radeon GPU acceleration, I posted some initial benchmarks of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series with HIP against NVIDIA RTX with OptiX. There was interest by some Phoronix readers in also seeing NVIDIA CUDA results even though OptiX is in good shape with RTX GPUs, so with that here are results of NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX vs. AMD HIP with Blender 3.2 on Ubuntu Linux.

Internet Explorer 11 limps to the end of Windows 10 road  The Register

KDE Plasma 5.25 is now shipping as the latest half-year major update to the KDE desktop...

KDE Plasma 5.25 Desktop Environment Is Out Now, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Earlier this year Wine began experimenting with GitLab to improve their development workflow for this open-source project that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux. It's now been decided that the GitLab workflow is useful and will now be their path forward...

GitLab Now The Main Development Platform For Wine  Phoronix

Linux Malware Deemed 'Nearly Impossible' to Detect  Threatpost

This new Linux malware has a sneaky way of staying hidden  ZDNet

Detect cloud native security threats with Tracee  InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code 1.68 identifies deprecated extensions  InfoWorld

While there are many exciting new features coming with Linux 5.19, one of the features that wasn't submitted this cycle unfortunately was the Multi-Gen "MGLRU" code led by Google. As covered in several prior Phoronix articles, the MGLRU support has exciting performance implications for making the Linux kernel's page reclaim code far more efficient...

Approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee this week is returning Fedora Cloud base to be listed as an official Fedora edition...

Fedora 37 Looks To Boost Its Cloud Posture As An Official Edition  Phoronix

Oracle on Monday released the Oracle Linux 9 Developer Preview as their take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 that reached general availability last month...

For those interested in open-source CAD solutions, FreeCAD 0.20 is out today as the newest version of this general purpose 3D computer-aided design modeler that has been in development now for nearly twenty years...

OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects  The Register

How to Install Ntopng on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout