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While PipeWire continues gaining traction for fulfilling the audio management roles long handled by PulseAudio, the PulseAudio project itself continues progressing and successfully evolving its mature code-base. Out this weekend is PulseAudio 16.0...

PulseAudio 16.0 Released With A Variety Of Improvements  Phoronix

How to Change File Extensions on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel adds Arc GPU, Rocky Linux, & multi-GPU functionality support to oneVPL 2022.1  Wccftech

Microsoft Weekly: Build excitement, Windows 11 22H2 RTM, and Linux XDP  Neowin

Onlive Server Announced Linux Windows India VPS Server Hosting with SSD Storage and Cloud Control Panel  Digital Journal

New Windows Subsystem for Linux malware steals browser auth cookies  BleepingComputer

New malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux steals browser auth cookies  BleepingComputer

Following this week's release of Chrome 102, Google has promoted Chrome 103 to beta for their cross-platform web browser...

How To Mount and Unmount Drives on Linux  Tom's Hardware

How To Mount and Unmount Drives on Linux  Tom's Hardware

Numerous "MM" Improvements Land In Linux 5.19  Phoronix

Andrew Morton with his recent shift to a Git-based workflow rather than maintaining long patch series has sent in all of the memory management "mm" changes for the Linux 5.19 merge window...

Timer Mechanisms With C and Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel oneVPL 2022.1 Brings Support For Arc A Series, Rocky Linux, Better Multi-GPU  Phoronix

While for years Intel has traditionally devoted all their video acceleration attention on Linux to VA-API (and the Media SDK albeit less popular with Linux enthusiasts), with the modern oneAPI world for Intel hardware their oneVPL library is quickly becoming a viable contender and a primary focus for their open-source video accelerator efforts. On Friday the oneVPL 2022.1 release was made available...

Finally for FAT file-systems with the in-development Linux 5.19 kernel is support via the statx() system call for reporting a file's birth/creation time...

Ahead of next month's big Plasma 5.25 release, KDE developers are wrapping up May with more bug fixes for polishing up this open-source desktop...

Intel has been working heavily on getting the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem in place so that when next-generation servers appear with this new high-speed interconnect industry standard, open-source operating systems will be ready...

Linux And C In The Browser  Hackaday