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Makers of the JingPad A1 are selling the Linux tablet for 45-percent off following staffing cuts  Liliputing

After a three week delay to the Mesa 22.0 schedule to allow Vulkan 1.3 to land among other last minute features, the code was branched today that marks the end of feature development on this quarterly Mesa3D driver stack. Mesa 22.0 stable should be out in a few weeks time and with it comes many new features to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems but of growing use on Windows with the D3D12 driver and other platforms...

What Investment Can Top Microsoft Before Windows's Release? This One Just Might.  Entrepreneur

What Investment Can Top Microsoft Before Windows's Release? This One Just Might.  Entrepreneur

Gathering Information on Your Wi-Fi NIC and Connection on Linux  Virtualization Review

While the Raspberry Pi 3 and newer have featured 64-bit Cortex CPU cores and even the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is 64-bit-capable, Raspbian OS as the official Raspberry Pi operating system has remained 32-bit. Finally in 2022 they now have an official 64-bit build...

Quietly making its v1.0 debut today is system76-scheduler as a Rust-written daemon aiming to improve Linux desktop responsiveness and catering to their Pop!_OS distribution...

System76-Scheduler Is A New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness  Phoronix

Tiny Core Linux 13 Released: Needs Just 46MB of RAM, 50MB of Disk  Tom's Hardware

Oracle Linux 8.5 now available through the Microsoft Store  Windows Central

Oracle Linux 8.5 now available through the Microsoft Store  Windows Central

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems now has experimental support for mesh shaders that work with their forthcoming Intel Arc DG2/Alchemist graphics cards...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Experimental Mesh Shader Support For DG2/Alchemist  Phoronix

System76 refreshes Kudu Linux-based laptops with Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU  Notebookcheck.net

Intel today is announcing Project Circuit Breaker as a broadening of its bug county program for "elite hackers" to help discover areas for improvement within Intel's hardware/software security...

Mounting individual drive in a RAID set-up? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How To Install RethinkDB server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal fossa  Linux Shout

NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04  Phoronix

With NVIDIA's newly-introduced 510 Linux driver series paired with the latest XWayland and a modern Wayland compositor like the newest GNOME/Mutter packages, the NVIDIA (X)Wayland experience is in great shape and delivering comparable performance to a traditional X.Org session. The NVIDIA Wayland support with GBM usage has stabilized and appears to be in good shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here are some benchmarks of the NVIDIA 510 driver on the current state of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 7.3 as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...