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Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.14-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 5.14 that should go gold around the end of August...

Pine64 announces $399 e-reader with Linux and pen support  XDA Developers

With proper heatsinks becoming all the more important with speedy PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSDs to avoid thermal throttling, SilverStone has been among the vendors offering after-market aluminum heatsinks designed for M.2 2280 drives. The SilverStone TP04 is a simple but effective aluminum alloy SSD cooling kit for about $17 USD.

While Linux 5.12 saw initial support merged for the Apple M1, it was quite the basic support with more robust support still to come. Besides the graphics support being a large work-in-progress, one of the areas now coming about is the new PCI Express driver that is necessary for supporting more functionality of this driver...

EasyWSL turns Linux docker images into a Windows 10 WSL distro  BleepingComputer

How to Create Command Shortcuts with Aliases in Linux  Tom's Hardware

If you have noticed grep regressing performance-wise in recent releases, you may want to upgrade to GNU Grep 3.7 released this weekend as it fixes a nasty performance regression...

OpenRazer 3.1 is now available as the newest version of this open-source, third-party solution for enabling Razer devices under Linux...

Computers are good at automation, but not everyone knows how to make automation work. It's a real luxury, though, to be able to schedule a task for a computer at a specific time and then forget about it. Maybe you have a file to upload or download at a specific time, or you need to process a batch of files that don't yet exist but are guaranteed to exist by a certain time or a setting that needs monitoring, or maybe you just need a friendly reminder to pick up bread and butter on the way home from work.

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Russian ArmSoC now ships on Russian PCs running Russian Linux • The Register  Illinoisnewstoday.com

Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed  Phoronix

Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Debian 11 'Bullseye' Linux distro is here  BetaNews

Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology  Help Net Security

Debian 11 "Bullseye" has been officially released now after just over two years in development...

3D Printed Smart Glasses Put Linux In Your Face  Hackaday

Besides the very successful Godot game engine and the up and coming O3DE, Ogre continues progressing as another useful open-source game engine. Out this weekend is Ogre 13.0 as the project switches up its versioning scheme...

Linux Operating System Market Growth Due to COVID-19 Spread | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint - The Market Writeuo  The Market Writeuo

A new status report has been published by the developers of "Asahi Linux" that are continuing to work on providing Linux support for the Apple Silicon initially with the M1 SoC...

Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues  Phoronix