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Tired of Windows? It's time to give Linux a try.  Windows Central

Intel To Ring In 2022 With New, Faster AV1 Encoder Release  Phoronix

Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media continues developing SVT-AV1 as the flagship CPU-based AV1 video encoder. With the next SVT-AV1 update there are performance optimizations as well as several new preset levels allowing for even greater performance. Here are some early benchmarks of that updated SVT-AV1.

GNOME's libadwaita 1.0 has been released for this library implementing the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and complementary to the GTK toolkit...

Intel Alder Lake's Thread Director Support Coming to Linux  Tom's Hardware

Intel Alder Lake's Thread Director Support Coming to Linux  Tom's Hardware

Celebrate New Year 2022 by switching from Windows 11 to Linux Lite 5.8 RC1  BetaNews

Crowdfunded Astro Slide phone with slide-out keyboard, Linux support should ship in 2022  Liliputing

Trying to install VLC - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) should be a huge deal for Steam Deck based on its Linux performance  Windows Central

Thanks to Valve engineer Timur Kristóf and other open-source developers involved, Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is ending 2021 on a high note: mesh shaders was just merged!..

Today is the unfortunate day marking CentOS Linux 8 reaching end-of-life status as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8...

Install Plex Media Server on Debian 11 Bullseye with Nginx Reverse Proxy  Linux Shout

Install Plex Media Server on Debian 11 Bullseye with Nginx Reverse Proxy  H2S Media

2021 Brought A Convenient Installer For Arch Linux, Powering The Steam Deck  Phoronix

Arch Linux had a pretty great year with introducing "Archinstall" as part of the official install media as a new, optional installer for conveniently installing the distribution to Valve choosing Arch Linux as their new SteamOS 3.0 base that will power their forthcoming Steam Deck handheld game console...

For those running Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle is set to bring a few improvements to the "thinkpad_acpi" driver...

It was just this month that Mold 1.0 premiered as a very promising, high performance linker alternative to GNU's Gold and LLVM's LLD linkers. GCC 12 added support for Mold this week and now for ending out the year Mold 1.0.1 has been released...

Each year it's interesting to see how Microsoft's usage and contributions around Linux and open-source evolve. In a short period of time they go from sponsoring coffee at LinuxTag to enabling .NET and more on Linux to now in 2021 having made public their CBL-Mariner Linux distribution, supporting more features like eBPF and IO_uring on Windows, and continue heavily investing in the Windows Subsystem for Linux...

This Year Microsoft Embraced eBPF, Debuted CBL-Mariner, Continued With WSL Features  Phoronix