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Decades old $1B Linux lawsuit involving IBM is settled – or is it?  WRAL Tech Wire

In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to using the ncurses library to write text-mode interactive applications in C. With ncurses, we can control where and how text gets displayed on the terminal.

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Trend Micro Detected Over 13 Million Malware Events Targeting Linux-based Cloud Environments  Taiwan News

Linux 5.14 Release – Main changes, Arm, MIPS, and RISC-V architectures  CNX Software

The Linux kernel has had a huge technological impact on the world, but it couldn't have been at the center of this without the provisions of the GNU General Public License 2.0.

Vulkan 1.2.190 resolves several issues with the specification, but most exciting with this routine Vulkan API update is the introduction of two new extensions...

When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds  The Register

As expected Linus Torvalds promoted Linux 5.14 to stable in providing the latest features, hardware support, and other improvements ahead of the autumn 2021 Linux distribution releases...

The Linux hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem for the 5.15 cycle is already seeing the AMD SB-RMI driver and AMD Cezanne Zen 3 APU temperature monitoring while there was also some last-minute additions around AMD next-gen "Yellow Carp" temperature reporting and separately support for another water cooling pump...

While the Linux 5.15 merge window opening is imminent, merged today to net-next were the latest batch of wireless driver updates for this next kernel version. Notable to this batch of WiFi driver updates was the new Intel material...

How to Manage Disk Partitions in Linux With fdisk  MUO - MakeUseOf

Yet-To-Be-Released Intel "Bz" WiFi Chipset To Be Supported By Linux 5.15  Phoronix

Top 8 File Backup Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Near the beginning of the year was some rare work on Linux's floppy disk driver and -- a half-year later -- it was found out that not only do people with systems using floppy disks still move to newer kernels, but that work earlier in the year had regressed the Linux kernel's floppy disk handling. Now coming for Linux 5.15 is a fix...

How to SSH AWS ec2 Linux Instances remotely  H2S Media

Can You Get By With a Flatpak-Only Linux Desktop?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Cryptocurrency Mining Has Piqued Cybercriminals' Interest In Violating Linux, Trend Micro Research Finds  BollyInside

Use Rust Commands Instead Of Traditional Linux Commands With These 6 Rust Commands  BollyInside

In Linux kernel, AMD adds 17 new PCI IDs for AMD RDNA2 GPUs: Is an update on the way? - Linux News  BollyInside

If all goes according to plan the Linux 5.14 kernel will be released as stable today. Linux 5.14 has many new features but there is also a lot of work slated for the next cycle, Linux 5.15. Here's a look...