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How to Clean the Package Cache in Arch Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Arm SoC and platform updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 5.15 kernel...

New to Linux from 11.0: Split Vom Split-User-System  Nintendo-Power

How to install Node js & NPM on Debian 11 Bullseye  H2S Media

Linux From Scratch 11.0: Abschied vom Split-User-System  Market Research Telecast

Last week I wrote about AMD adding 17 more RDNA2 PCI IDs to their Linux driver which is rather unusual given the amount and the number of PCI IDs already found in the AMDGPU kernel driver for these latest-generation GPUs and the Radeon RX 6000 series already being mid-life. As noted in that article and seemingly in agreement with the various other industry articles following that Phoronix news, it seems to be for some sort of RDNA2 refresh likely. Now those new PCI IDs are being queued up for introduction in the current Linux 5.15 cycle...

How to Open Terminal in Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Operating System Market Quality & Quantity Analysis | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint – UNLV The Rebel Yell  UNLV The Rebel Yell

When the Qt 6.0 tool-kit debuted last year much of the early criticism stemmed around it not having all the modules/functionality ported over from Qt5 meanwhile The Qt Company was restricting newer Qt 5.15 LTS point releases to paying customers only. Since then the developers have been working to address the voids in Qt6 and with the upcoming Qt 6.2 as their next long-term support release, all of the important functionality should be in place...

The sound/audio drivers have landed for the ongoing Linux 5.15 kernel driver...

Using the Linux set command  Network World

In July -- the same month as Valve announcing the Steam Deck -- the Steam on Linux marketshare hit 1.0%. That 1.0% marketshare was a +0.14% bump and the highest seen in years since Steam on Linux's debut nearly a decade ago back when it commanded around a 2% marketshare...

Steam On Linux Continues Hovering Around The 1% Mark  Phoronix

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In previous articles, I have written about container images and runtimes. In this article, I look at how containers are made possible by a foundation of some special Linux technologies, including namespaces and control groups.

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We've been covering Genode OS for more than a decade now as this original open-source operating system "framework" and through this time they have managed to keep up with their routine feature releases. Out this week is Genode OS Framework 21.08 as they seek to make it easier porting device driver code to their platform...

One of the reasons so many DOS applications sported a text user interface (or TUI) is because it was so easy to do. The standard way to control console input and output (conio) was with the conio library for many C programmers. This is a de-facto standard library on DOS, which gained popularity as implemented by Borland's proprietary C compiler as conio.h.

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The System76 Pangolin Linux laptops now come with Ryzen 5000U APU options  Notebookcheck.net

Very large IBM mainframes/servers were taking 30+ minutes to boot the Linux kernel... No, just not for POST'ing the system with memory training and the like, but for loading Linux. Fortunately, with the Linux 5.15 kernel there is a set of scalability enhancements to allow these large IBM systems to be able to boot in around five minutes...

Linux 5.15 Addressing Scalability Issue That Caused Huge IBM Servers 30+ Minutes To Boot  Phoronix