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6 Advanced Distributions for Expert Linux Users  It's FOSS

The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better.

In software engineering, waste can be expressed in a few ways:

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Get old Macs up and running with Linux: revive Apple computers with Manjaro Linux  Market Research Telecast

Red Hat renews FIPS 140-2 security validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2  Help Net Security

Steam Deck is a Linux desktop trojan horse  BetaNews

Linux Variant of HelloKitty Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers  Threatpost

Linux Foundation starts open-source diversity, equity, and inclusion survey  ZDNet

Steam Deck: How Proton will make your Steam games shine on Valve’s handheld  Tom's Guide

Windows The Most Popular OS For Development Followed By Linux And macOS  Fossbytes

The Open 3D Engine spun out of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine has been seeing progress on Vulkan 1.2 API work as well as Linux porting at large, including the bringing up of the game engine's editor on Linux...

How to Install Different Browsers on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Microsoft Linux is not what you thought (or hoped) it would be  TechRepublic

The KWinFT fork of KDE's KWin compositor has landed its support for using the WLROOTS Wayland library...

What is Valve Proton? The Steam Deck's live-or-die Linux software, explained  PCWorld

The newest performance optimization merged this week for Mesa's "RADV" Radeon Vulkan open-source driver is NGG culling for Navi 1x/2x graphics cards. NGG Culling "NGGC" isn't enabled by default at this time but can be easily activated and depending upon the software under test can provide some minor performance gains on top of all the other optimizations seen in recent times for RADV.

Linux Gaming Performance With Radeon Vulkan NGG Culling  Phoronix

Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner  ZDNet

An early batch of "drm-misc-next" changes has been sent to DRM-Next for queuing to ultimately land with the Linux 5.15 kernel...

Recently in Coreboot Git has been more work on expanding its (experimental) 64-bit mode for execution...

Distributed machine learning: Substra new in the Linux Foundation's incubator  Market Research Telecast