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Many Block Improvements Land In Linux 5.16 - Multi-Actuator Hard Drive Support  Phoronix

Hive Ransomware now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems  IT World Canada

MPV 0.34 is now available as the newest version of this popular Linux video player that is powered by FFmpeg and forked originally from MPlayer/mplayer2 code...

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 ditches Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser  BetaNews

Linux 5.16 is adjusting its default Spectre mitigation behavior around Spectre V2 for user-space tasks as well as Speculative Store Bypass Disable (SSBD) for Spectre V4 mitigation...

Linux 5.16 Loosens The Spectre Defaults Around SSBD / STIBP  Phoronix

Pi IoT In Python Using Linux Drivers - I2C  iProgrammer

Google announced today that now through at least the end of January they will be providing higher payment amounts for security researchers disclosing new vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel...

Linux gets its latest LTS kernel  TechRadar

How to install Ruby Version Manager (RVM) on Debian 11 Bullseye  H2S Media

ExplainShell: A Web-Based Alternative to the Traditional Linux Man Pages  MUO - MakeUseOf

FWUPD 1.7.1 is out today as the newest release of this leading open-source solution for allowing firmware updates from UEFI motherboards to various peripherals under Linux and other platforms...

Motrix: A Beautiful Cross-Platform Open-Source Download Manager  It's FOSS

As we approach the end of the calendar year there was some uncertainty whether Linux 5.15 would be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel or if it would be Linux 5.16 albeit not likely releasing until the start of 2022.....

Linux Kernel 5.15 Is Out! Here’s What’s New  Fossbytes

PHPStan 1.0 was released today as the first stable release for this leading open-source PHP static analysis tool...

How Long a Linux Kernel Release is Supported?  It's FOSS

FUTEX2's sys_futex_waitv() Sent In For Linux 5.16 To Help Linux Gaming  Phoronix

As expected after first reporting on it a month ago when the FUTEX2 patches were queued up in locking/core, this work with the new sys_futex_waitv() system call for helping the Windows on Linux gaming experience will indeed land for Linux 5.16...

It was an exciting October even amid the ongoing pandemic as at least Linux/open-source enthusiasts were able to enjoy the Ubuntu 21.10 debut, ongoing Linux I/O optimizations many of which are now coming to mainline in 5.16, numerous AMD driver enhancements, NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack finally introducing GBM support, X.Org Server 21.1 released, and much more...