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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

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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

Chrome 95 has rolled out as stable today as the latest version of Google's web browser...

In recent months we have seen a lot of RadeonSI optimizations focused on SPECViewPerf with AMD seemingly trying to get this open-source OpenGL driver into very capable shape moving forward for workstation GL workloads. Hitting Mesa 22.0-devel today is yet another round of patches for tuning SPECViewPerf...

Linux Software Market May Set New Growth Story | Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon – EcoChunk  EcoChunk

Karanbir Singh who had served as the CentOS Project Leader and involved with the community-based RHEL distribution since 2004 has stepped down from his roles...

Juno readies Intel Tiger Lake-H and AMD Ryzen 5000U Linux-based laptops  Notebookcheck.net

AlmaLinux Announces ELevate Project to Migrate or Upgrade Any Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Distribution  Business Wire

Users Can Now Play Windows 95’s Space Cadet on Linux and Windows 11  WinBuzzer

New Linux laptop offers RTX 3080 and 144 Hz 17-inch screen  Ars Technica

Create your own data center-specific Linux image with Cubic  TechRepublic

Disney+ streams to Linux-based VIDAA Smart OS  Light Reading

Disney+ streams to Linux-based VIDAA Smart OS  Light Reading

Announced earlier this year for Google Cloud was a new family of virtual machines called Tau VMs. The initial T2D instances are powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors to deliver leading performance and are also positioned to deliver great value in going up against the likes of Amazon's Graviton2 instances. Tau VM instances are now available as a preview and Google has provided us with gratis access to the new instance types for benchmarking.