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In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older... A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90's...

Atari Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver Being Worked On In 2022  Phoronix

Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

How to upgrade LMDE 4 Debbie to LMDE 5 Elsie - Linux Shout  Linux Shout

Install Ansible on Ubuntu Server to Automate Linux Server Deployments  thenewstack.io

Latest testing finds Windows 11 losing performance lead over Ubuntu and Linux  Neowin

Broadcom's VMware buy got you worried? Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin  The Register

Intel this week submitted to DRM-Next what it anticipates to be the last batch of "drm-intel-next" feature changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

KDE developers are looking at possibly making use of C++20 language features within the Plasma 5.26 desktop and the newer C++ usage could work its way to other KDE components with time too...

Cloud Hypervisor as what started out as an Intel open-source project and now lives under the Linux Foundation umbrella as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for use with Linux KVM and Windows MSHV is out with a new feature release...

Gentoo developer Andreas Hüttel "Dilfridge" is experimenting with binary Gentoo package hosting and finding out what improvements to Portage are needed for making it more of a reality at a larger scale...

Following last week's release of Vulkan 1.3.219 that introduced the VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier extension and Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) adding support for it earlier this week, Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" has landed support for this new extension to close out the week...

How to Use Microsoft Office on Linux  It's FOSS

Russian Debian-derivative Linux slinger plans IPO  The Register

Linux systems under attack from novel OrBit malware  SC Media

Xbox Cloud Gaming looks worse on Linux — here's why it's bad and how to fix it  The Verge

1. Xbox Cloud Gaming looks worse on Linux — here's why it's bad and how to fix it  The Verge
2. Xbox Cloud Gaming team (unofficially) addresses performance issues on Linux  OnMSFT.com
3. Microsoft's Game Pass streaming looks worse on Linux—unless you use Edge  PCWorld
4. Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming looks worse on Linux than Windows  Ars Technica
5. Microsoft's xCloud looks terrible on Linux  Fudzilla
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Intel Alder Lake Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Vs Linux With Surprising Results  HotHardware

The past few months we have been closely covering the Coreboot port to an MSI retail motherboard for Intel Alder Lake. This port carried out by the 3mdeb consulting firm has been with their downstream "Dasharo" firmware based on Coreboot while as of yesterday the motherboard port has begun landing in upstream Coreboot...

The 12 Best Vim Plugins to Improve Your Workflow  MUO - MakeUseOf