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Compress Images in Linux Easily With Curtail GUI App  It's FOSS

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 19th, 2022  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds spent some of Father's Day today merging last minute pull requests for the week and issuing Linux 5.19-rc3 as the newest weekly test kernel...

This $150 biodegradable keyboard has an Intel processor inside  TechSpot

2 Ways to install Midori Browser on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

Out this weekend is a new version of GhostBSD, the desktop-focused operating system built atop a FreeBSD base and catering to the MATE desktop environment...

Manjaro Linux 21.3 'Ruah' is here with GNOME, Xfce, and KDE Plasma  BetaNews

6 Top Browser you can install on Linux such as Ubuntu  Linux Shout

Statistics published by Fedora for the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) usage point to a recent surge in Rocky Linux usage -- at least for those with EPEL enabled -- and at least recently appears to surpass the usage for the likes of CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, and even the RHEL usage with EPEL enabled...

When an EXT4 file-system is running low on free space (or when toggled via the "nodelalloc" mount option), EXT4's delayed allocation mode can be disabled. This can result in a significant performance hit but now a patch is pending for what should land in Linux 5.20 with recovering that performance when delayed allocation is disabled...

Portable Computer Market by Type (Mac OS, Windows, Linux), Application (Home, Business, Office), and Geography – Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019-2029 – Indian Defence News  Indian Defence News

Following an initial rc0 tag earlier in the week, Git 2.37-rc1 was released on Friday for helping to facilitate testing for the next version of this leading, open-source distributed revision control system...

EXT4 Has A Nice One-Line Performance Fix For Cases When Delayed Allocation Is Disabled  Phoronix

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Market 2022 by Top Keyplayers and Vendors: Intel, Huawei, OpenFog, Linux, China Telecom, etc… – Indian Defence News  Indian Defence News

How To Rename A File In Chromebook?  Fossbytes

Rocket.Chat vs. Slack: Choosing the Perfect Team Collaboration App  It's FOSS

Yesterday I posted benchmarks of six Linux distributions on the HP Dev One, the exciting new Linux laptop launched by HP in collaboration with System76 that is using their Pop!_OS distribution. From those benchmarks one of the bizarre findings was that the Zstd compression performance on Arch Linux simply sucked, but some interested developers dove in and found the rather bizarre culprit why their Zstd performance is so poor in relation to other Linux distributions on the same version...

Closed Source vs. Open Source Hardware Drivers: Why It Matters  MUO - MakeUseOf

Notkia: Building An Open And Linux-Powered Numpad Phone  Hackaday

Mold 1.3 has been released today as the newest version of this high-speed linker that serves as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM's LLD...