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You may recall the news from a few months ago about the work to improve Btrfs' on-disk format in addressing "painful parts" of its design. That "extrent-tree-v2" work has been progressing and recently was queued up into the Btrfs for-next code albeit hidden behind a debug flag...

Intel open-source engineer Marcel Holtmann is marking the end of January with new releases to their ConnMan Linux network connection manager software along with a new IWD as their iNet Wireless Daemon as an alternative to WPA_Supplicant on Linux systems...

Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build  Phoronix

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This article covers the configuration of a CI pipeline for a C++ project on GitLab. My previous articles covered how to set up a build system based on CMake and VSCodium and how to integrate unit tests based on GoogleTest and CTest. This article is a follow-up on extending the configuration by using a CI pipeline. First, I demonstrate the pipeline setup and then its execution.

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6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  Linux Shout

6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  H2S Media

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2022: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs, SG WORK, Tencent, yiqixie.com, Kingsoft etc….  Bristol City Supporters Trust

Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build  Phoronix

While many Linux enthusiasts like to cite Linux's stellar support for older hardware platforms, in reality that isn't always the case. For instance with many old X.Org user-space mode-setting drivers for powering old graphics cards at least for display purposes, they can no longer even build with with modern toolchains / software components. Given the lack of bug reports around such issues, there are very likely few users trying some of these vintage hardware combinations...

Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi's latest multi-distro demo image  Liliputing

That puppy linux is quite difficult - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Debian-based Nitrux 2.0.0 Linux distribution now available with KDE Plasma 5.23.5  BetaNews

While it shouldn't be too surprising given Intel's open-source track record, but with the in-development Linux 5.17 kernel are once again many prominent additions from new/future hardware support to enabling exciting features...

Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs To Get Resizable BAR Support on Linux Platforms  Wccftech

Linus Torvalds' schedule due to travels remains a bit off and as such Linux 5.17-rc2 is already available this morning...

AMD open-source engineers sent out a request for comments on a new kernel feature called "PAN", or Process Adaptive autoNUMA. Early numbers shown by AMD indicate that PAN can help with performance in some workloads on their latest server hardware by a measurable amount...

One of the promising new BSD projects started over the past year was helloSystem as "the macOS of BSDs" and built atop FreeBSD but with a macOS-inspired design. A Phoronix reader has pointed out another entrant in this field with airyxOS as a FreeBSD-based operating system designed to be similar to Apple's macOS experience...

airyxOS Aims To Build Upon FreeBSD With The "Finesse of macOS"  Phoronix

The latest GNOME 42 feature work to mention is a ten month old merge request landing that cleans up and improves the XWayland termination for when there are no more X11 clients running within the GNOME Wayland session...