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The Steam Survey results are in for May 2022 and while it shows Linux slightly down on a percentage basis, it shows a new top-spot for the most popular Linux distribution unseating Ubuntu LTS...

Arch Linux Hits Top Linux Spot Over Ubuntu In May's Steam Survey  Phoronix

Last month marked the debut of Mesa 22.1 as the newest quarterly release to this open-source Linux graphics driver stack. For those that prefer waiting until the first point release before upgrading, today is the day with Mesa 22.1.1 now available...

Why You Should Use A Computer Specifically Meant For Bitcoin Transactions And How To Do It  Bitcoin Magazine

Why You Should Use A Computer Specifically Meant For Bitcoin Transactions And How To Do It  Bitcoin Magazine

Lilbits: The $219 Pinebook Pro Linux laptop returns, GNOME is becoming more mobile-friendly, and Google Pixel 7 prototypes in the wild  Liliputing

Lilbits: The $219 Pinebook Pro Linux laptop returns, GNOME is becoming more mobile-friendly, and a MacBook Air with M2 may be imminent  Liliputing

Linux Mint project takes over development of Timeshift backup tool and makes it a XApp  Neowin

IO_uring Continues Advancing In 2022 With New Features For Pushing Linux I/O  Phoronix

The Kernel Recipes 2022 conference kicked off today in Paris, France. Kicking off the event was Linux block subsystem maintainer and lead IO_uring developer Jens Axboe to talk about all of the recent and ongoing work around this major advancement to Linux I/O in recent years...

Linux/Database Administrator, IT/AV Technician  Seven Days VT

Google has been helping small open-source projects get started in chip fabrication with Google covering the costs and partnering with SkyWater Technology using their open-source process design kit (PDK). While the chip manufacturing is done on a 130nm process (SKY130), this effort has proven to be a big success for open-source hardware projects with limited funding and Google today announced a new silicon design portal...

Back in February Intel announced it was acquiring Linutronix as the folks maintaining real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) and other prominent Linux contributions. Today Intel announced another exciting software acquisition for bolstering their open ecosystem...

How to manage Flatpak permissions with Flatseal  TechRepublic

Linux Lite 6.0: It's quite pretty, but 'lite' it is not  The Register

Best Linux Distributions for Educational Use in 2022  Techstory

Upgrading Ubuntu 22.04's Kernel & Mesa For Better AMD RDNA2 Performance  Phoronix

While Ubuntu 22.04 LTS was just released over one month ago, it is shipping on the Linux 5.15 kernel that was already two stable series behind at release time but chosen as the default due to its long-term support status. Ubuntu 22.04 also shipped with Mesa 22.0 as the latest stable version albeit the open-source OpenGL/Vulkan graphics drivers are quick to advance. So if you've been thinking about upgrading Mesa or the Linux kernel on your Ubuntu 22.04 system for better Linux gaming performance, here are some benchmarks looking at such performance impact for AMD RDNA2 / Radeon RX 6000 series graphics.

New feature code for the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has landed for the in-development Linux 5.19 kernel...

KDE vs Xfce: Comparing Lean and Mean Desktop Environments  It's FOSS