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While PostgreSQL has supported compression with its TOAST storage and over the past year has built-up LZ4 compression support for it along with compressing the WAL, backup compression, and other usage, PostgreSQL developers are preparing to further extend their compression capabiities with Zstd support...

Steam Deck will run native Linux games where it makes sense  TechRadar

Intel's forthcoming Arc Graphics "Alchemist" (DG2) graphics cards do support Resizable BAR functionality as covered when they previously published Linux patches for it. They are also now working on a DG2 feature for "small BAR" support...

Intel Working On "Small BAR" Linux Driver Support For DG2/Alchemist  Phoronix

It's been a while since last hearing anything of Linux block subsystem maintainer's Jens Axboe crusade on achieving the maximum possible IOPS-per-core. However, on Friday he was out with his latest insight in still declaring Intel's Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" processor as being the king of IOPS-per-core performance at nearly 13M IOPS per CPU core...

2 ways to install LAMP server on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04  Linux Shout

KDE developers had a very busy Valentine's week with working on more fixes for the recently released Plasma 5.24 as well as making early progress on Plasma 5.25 and improving KDE apps and other areas of their open-source desktop environment...

AMD rolls out Linux update for Zen 3 processors with the newest CPU Microcode  Wccftech

A good photo can be a powerful thing. It expresses what you saw in a very literal sense, but it also speaks to what you experienced. Little things say a lot: the angle you choose when taking the photo, how large something looms in the frame, and by contrast the absence of those conscious choices.

Photos are often not meant as documentation of what really happened, and instead they become insights into how you, the photographer, perceived what happened.

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How to Enable SSH server on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Linux  Linux Shout

How to Use the Rsync Utility to Make a Remote Backup of a Linux System  Security Boulevard

Valve is testing native Linux ports for the Steam Deck in addition to Proton  PC Gamer

7 Must-Know Linux File Manipulation Commands  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, says Google Project Zero  ZDNet

The 7 Best Linux Docks to Give Your Desktop a New Look  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD today pushed updated Family 19h / Zen 3 CPU microcode to the linux-firmware.git tree...

BSidesAugusta 2021 – Fernando Tomlinson’s ‘New Shell In Town: Adventures In Using PowerSh...  Security Boulevard

GNOME Project retires OpenGL rendering library Clutter  The Register

AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers have been working on the driver support for new graphics processors and now the patches are at the earliest stages of publishing. However, due to driver handling changes, it's sharply different this time around where in the past they volleyed a big set of patches under some colorful fishy codename in an effort to conceal their hardware enablement work...

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