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In preparation for the support within their Vulkan driver, the Intel-led effort for preparing mesh shader support within Mesa's NIR and SPIR-V code has now been merged...

Linux at 30: How a student's hobby became a key component in the business IT stack  TechRadar

Linux at 30: How a student's hobby became a key component in the business IT stack  TechRadar

It's been a relatively quiet summer in the Wine-Staging world with not many new patches surfacing for testing/experimental purposes for this more bleeding edge version of Wine. However, with Wine-Staging 6.16 there are at least some new patches now to talk about...

The Plasma 5.23 desktop release is looking like it will be quite an eventful milestone while KDE developers are finishing August strong with many improvements and fixes across their desktop stack...

A recent article provided an introduction to parsing command-line options in Java. Because I really like Groovy, and because Groovy is well suited for scripting, and because it's fun to compare Java and Groovy solutions, I decided to paraphrase Seth's article, but using Groovy.

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How to install Snap & Snap-store on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  H2S Media

Linux is not invulnerable, here are some top Linux malware in 2021  Technology Zimbabwe

ROCm 4.3 released at the start of August with support for HMM memory allocations, support for indirect function calls and C++ virtual functions with the ROCm compiler, improved data center tool integration, better rocBLAS performance, and a range of other improvements. In approaching the end of August, ROCm 4.3.1 is now available...

LibreELEC 10.0 minimal Linux OS for media playback released with Kodi 19.1  CNX Software

Linux Foundation Energy's Executive Director, Dr. Shuli Goodman, On Decarbonization At The Electron Level  CleanTechnica

Linux Foundation Energy’s Executive Director, Dr. Shuli Goodman, On Decarbonization At The Electron Level  CleanTechnica

Wine 6.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this widely-used software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other systems...

Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security  TechCrunch

Windows, Linux, and Mac commands everyone needs to know (free PDF)  TechRepublic

AMD Radeon RDNA 2 Refresh Possibly Confirmed Via Linux Kernel Driver Update  Hot Hardware

Current Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe started out in the late 90's taking over maintainership of the Linux kernel's CD-ROM driver code. However, as he's busy these days with IO_uring and other prominent I/O activities for Linux, he's hoping someone interested and capable would want to take over the Linux kernel's CD-ROM code...

How to level up your Linux developer skills  TechRepublic

Manage Your PostgreSQL Database With pgAdmin on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Open source Kodi 19 Matrix-based LibreELEC 10 Linux distribution available for download  BetaNews