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Just one week ago was the public launch of the Radeon RX 6600 as the newest offering in the RDNA2 GPU line-up. While in our Radeon RX 6600 Linux review the performance was good on AMD's well regarded open-source driver stack and standing ground against the likes of the GeForce RTX 3060 with NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver, it turns out the RX 6600 Linux performance can be even better already. Here are benchmarks of the Radeon RX 6600 on Linux across six different driver configurations.

Separate from all the ongoing Apple Silicon/M1 bring-up work for the Linux kernel, the Linux 5.16 cycle is set to support this year's Apple Magic Keyboard...

Linux 5.16 To Support The 2021 Apple Magic Keyboard  Phoronix

New Linux kernel memory corruption bug causes full system compromise  HackRead

SoftMaker FreeOffice 2021 released — free Word, Excel and PowerPoint alternatives for Windows, Mac and Linux  BetaNews

Linux Foundation to introduce new DevOps Bootcamp – DevOps Online  DevOps Online

Queued this week into the Linux PCI subsystem's "next" branch is the Apple PCIe driver needed to enable PCI Express support for Apple SoCs such as the M1...

A new Linux laptop with an RTX 3080 graphics card and a 17-inch 144Hz display is available - Bollyinside  BollyInside

Networked computers are so common these days that most of us take it for granted that a computer on one side of a room can contact one on the other side of the room, much less the other side of the world. When it works as designed, networking is what makes the Internet, the cloud, file shares, media streaming, remote administration, printing, and much more possible. When something goes wrong, it can sometimes be challenging to diagnose. One of the most fundamental diagnostic tools for networked connectivity is the ping command.

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The love/hate relationship the cloud has with Linux  TechRepublic

This New Linux Gaming Laptop Has the Specs to Run Anything  How-To Geek

Hiring Kit: Linux Administrator  TechRepublic

Thanks to the nature of open-source, AMD engineers for the "AMDGPU" kernel graphics driver are looking to make use of Intel's new i915 buddy allocator code they introduced as part of all their video memory management changes as part of their discrete graphics bring-up...

If Linux is your primary working environment, then you might be familiar with the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), the main file format used for executables, libraries, core-dumps, and more, on Linux.

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How to Convert a Webpage to PDF in Linux  It's FOSS

Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love  The Register

The post How to Upgrade from Debian 10 to Debian 11 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

For those wishing to upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye, the process is very simple but does take a while depending on the connection speed to the Internet. An upgrade the

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It's been a half-year since talking about the Wii U gamepad driver that's been in development with mainline ambitions for supporting this wireless gamepad in conjunction with the Nintendo Wii U console. The driver has just been revised to address earlier code review comments, again renewing interest in the effort and possible mainlining in a future kernel version...

Oracle has published its latest quarterly update to GraalVM, the open-source Java JVM/JDK implemented in Java that also supports other execution modes and programming languages from Python to R to Ruby...

8 Excellent Alternative Desktops for Fedora and How to Install Them  MUO - MakeUseOf