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Linux To Start Seeing Enablement Patches For Intel "Raptor Lake"  Phoronix

Following today's inaugural patch, over the coming weeks we are expected to see Intel Raptor Lake patches beginning to make it out onto the public kernel mailing list for review...

Rough, tough vehicle-mount computer runs Linux on i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

AlmaLinux Community Delivers Third Stable Linux Release Within 48 Hours of Upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5  Business Wire

Actiphy Inc., Releases ActiveImage Protector 2022 Backup and Recovery Solution Featuring Direct-To-Cloud Backup and In-Cloud Recovery  Yahoo Finance

Windows 11 Better Than Linux Right Now For Intel Alder Lake Performance  Phoronix

While we are used to running AMD and Intel benchmarks between Microsoft Windows and Linux while most often finding that our favorite open-source operating systems normally lead the race from desktops through HEDT and server platforms, when it comes to the Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" that is currently not the case. Going into this round of Windows vs. Linux testing quite curious given some Intel hybrid architecture oddities we have been seeing under Linux, indeed when hitting Windows 11 and an assortment of Linux distributions with benchmarks we were left disappointed. Not only did Windows 11 come out faster overall, but related is now Linux also had much higher run-to-run variance due to the mix of P and E cores with Thread Director not making the wisest choices under Linux.

What's the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager in Linux?  TechRepublic

Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service  The Register

The Ceph open-source distributed storage system can now enjoy better performance out-of-the-box with Linux 5.16...

How to Install Linux Kernel 5.15 on Linux Mint and Ubuntu  BollyInside

A mainnet swap and its subsequent domino effects led the price of this token to 5x in a month  Cointelegraph

Switch to Dark Mode in Fedora Linux With GNOME Desktop  It's FOSS

Forza Horizon 5 now runs on Linux, sort of  Windows Central

HP's solution to running GPU-accelerated Linux apps on high-end Z workstations: Rely on Microsoft's WSL2  The Register

HP's solution to running GPU-accelerated Linux apps on high-end Z workstations: Rely on Microsoft's WSL2  The Register

Red Hat's David Airlie has been working on early support for Vulkan Video API support with Mesa's Radeon "RADV" driver while the past week he spent time working on similar treatment for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver and also resurrecting some unfinished VA-API video acceleration code he was working on for the Intel Crocus Gallium3D driver...

K-12 Mobile Computing Shipments Operating system Market 2021 Detailed Analysis of top Ventures with Regional Outlook | Key Companies: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Chrome OS, Android...  Energy Siren

How to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2  Linux Shout

While the AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" Linux kernel graphics driver has supported VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) over DisplayPort connections, until now it hasn't supported the power-savings feature for eDP panels...