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Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with '-Werror' as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts  The Register

As expected this evening the Linux 5.15-rc1 kernel was released to top off the two week merge window that saw many changes to the kernel...

Linux 5.15-rc1 Brings New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, AMD Changes, Intel DG2  Phoronix

How to Add or Create a New Superuser on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install Flutter on Fedora Linux  H2S Media

How to Change Your MAC Address on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

While working on my usual Linux kernel feature overview that summarizes the many articles over the past two weeks outlining all of the new features and changes merged, one area that particularly stands out for Linux 5.15 are all of AMD's upstream contributions that happened to make it in this kernel. There is a lot of new enablement on the AMD side -- both for CPUs and Radeon graphics -- but also improving existing hardware support...

How you can Play PC Games on Linux With Lutris 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

How to install Brave Browser for Fedora Linux  H2S Media

The Apache Software Foundation recently published their FY2021 report for their year-ended 30 April. Even with the ongoing pandemic, the Apache Software Foundation managed to raise more than $3M USD and enjoyed a host of software successes...

Download and install Google Chrome for Fedora 34 Linux  H2S Media

We are now down to the last day of the Linux 5.15 merge window and one of the patch series we have been waiting to see if it would land during this two week period was the "folios" code -- or that also was recently renamed to "pagesets" to address some concerns over the name...

It's Looking Like Folios / Pagesets Might Miss Making It Into Linux 5.15  Phoronix

In addition to the RISC-V changes merged last week for the Linux 5.15 kernel, a second batch of patches was merged this weekend...

A typical work year would involve my attending maybe six to eight conferences in person and speaking at quite a few of them. A few years ago, I stopped raiding random booths at the exhibitions usually associated with these for t-shirts for the simple reason that I had too many of them. That's not to say that I wouldn't accept one here or there if it was particularly nice, or an open source project which I esteemed particularly, for instance. Or ones which I thought my kids would like—they're not "cool" but are at least useful for sleepwear, apparently.

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Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults  Phoronix

Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults  Phoronix

A change first proposed last year to the Linux kernel's Spectre mitigation defaults looks like it will soon be sent in for the mainline kernel...

Question about Keepass XC File Management? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to List Installed Packages in Ubuntu With APT  MUO - MakeUseOf