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Linux Operating System Market Impressive Gains – Bloomingprairieonline  Bloomingprairieonline

Merged into Mesa 22.1-devel this morning is Kopper, a big improvement particularly for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code...

Linux Mint’s New Upgrade Tool Aims to Make the Update Process a Breeze  It's FOSS News

Last year Fedora developers and users were discussing the packaging of ROCm components to make it easier to deploy this Radeon open-source GPU compute stack. Five months later, some of the Radeon Open eCosystem components have made it into Fedora for easier installation but the HIP and OpenCL front-ends to ROCm haven't yet been successfully packaged...

10 essential Linux tools for network and security pros  Network World

Linux 5.18 is bringing many random/RNG improvements thanks to the work of kernel developer Jason Donenfeld. One of the changes though that had to be backed out during the merge window was trying to get /dev/random and /dev/urandom to behave exactly the same. While reverted for now with the 5.18 code, Donenfeld has prepared a change that should get it into good shape for major architectures with the next kernel cycle...

Linux 5.19 To Try To Opportunistically Initialize /dev/urandom  Phoronix

We are less than one week out from the Linux 5.18 merge window having ended and already the first pull request of "drm-misc-next" material has been submitted to DRM-Next for staging until the Linux 5.19 cycle rolls around in late May...

Google engineer Yu Zhao has sent out the "v10" patches of the MGLRU Linux kernel feature for enhancing system performance and especially for providing a better experience in dealing with system memory pressure...

MGLRU Revised A 10th Time For Improving Linux Performance, Better Under Memory Pressure  Phoronix

Linux Mint's upcoming Upgrade tool makes upgrades a lot easier  Ghacks

How to install Umbraco CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Does the Acer Swift 3 (2022) laptop run Linux OS?  XDA Developers

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Alpine Linux is an independent, free, and open-source Linux distribution based on BusyBox and musl. It is a lightweight and security-oriented Linux distribution that comes in a small footprint (about 160 MB). For this

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Pop!_OS Teases Intrepid Linux Users With the 22.04 Beta Release  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to make a bootable Linux pendrive/USB  BollyInside

2 ways to remove duplicate lines from Linux files  Network World

CIQ and Google Cloud to Provide Optimized Experience for Rocky Linux  Business Wire

Getting a VPN to run from regular user privilege - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

As a Linux kernel change for benefiting AMD CPUs going back to Zen 1 and for matching behavior Intel has had in place since the Core 2 times, AMD submitted a patch for having the Linux kernel use the MWAIT instruction instead of HALT for when the system isn't using the CPU idle driver either for C-states being disabled by the BIOS or the driver not part of the kernel build. In turn this can lead to around a 21% improvement in exit latency on affected systems...