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6 Reasons Why You Should Try the Lightweight Xfce Desktop  MUO - MakeUseOf

Blockchain Technology Market Set for Epic Growth | IBM, Microsoft, Linux, Deloitte  Digital Journal

How to View and Monitor Disk Space Usage From the Linux Command Line – CloudSavvy IT  Swift Digital news agency

The Qt Company just announced Qt 6.3 Alpha as the first formal test release for this next Qt6 toolkit update. The Qt Company also lifted the lid on their new Qt Quick Compiler where they are aiming for QML to run at "a speed close to native" for that interpreted language...

IDrive 360 Adds Endpoint Cloud Backup Support for Linux Machines  AiThority

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3. Learn Linux from scratch, and then learn how to get jobs in the field  TechRepublic
4. Become a Certified Linux Programmer for $30  PCMag.com
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Explore How Linux Can Help Launch Your IT Expert Career For $30  IFLScience

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Planning To Stick With Linux 5.15 By Default  Phoronix

It turns out Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is planning to use the Linux 5.15 kernel as its default kernel. It makes sense in that Linux 5.15 is also a long-term support kernel, but unfortunate in that Ubuntu LTS releases haven't always used LTS kernel versions and v5.15 will be a half-year old already by the time the "Jammy Jellyfish" ships in April. This is a choice particularly unfortunate for those with recent hardware but at least there is the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA and other non-default options available...

1. Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days  Ars Technica
2. Humble Bundle Removing Mac, Linux Games From Trove Library  Kotaku
3. Game subscription: Humble Choice locks out Linux and macOS  Market Research Telecast
4. Humble Bundle retires all Mac and Linux games from the Humble Trove starting February 1st  Neowin
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Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days  Ars Technica

In addition to Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers being quite busy preparing for upcoming Intel Arc "Alchemist" (DG2) graphics cards on the consumer side, they have concurrently been preparing for Xe HP "Ponte Vecchio" hardware too. One of the big undertakings on that side from the driver perspective is bringing up multiple tiles...

While the MIPS CPU architecture itself is at the end of the road, kernel developers still are busy with MIPS considering the Loongson hardware that is popular in China and lots of older MIPS hardware out there lacking mainline Linux kernel support. For Linux 5.17 several more older, consumer-grade network routers are seeing mainline support...

No. 656: On missionaries, MLK and C-sections – plus, New York Tech gets in Linux  Innovate Long Island

How to create and run a shell script in Linux and Ubuntu  TheServerSide.com

Mesa's "Copper" Is A Step Closer To Being Brazed  Phoronix

A draft merge request has been opened for landing "Copper" within Mesa...

Battling the pandemic has created a shortage of microchips needed to produce new computers. In addition, some newer proprietary operating systems come with higher minimum standards for those systems. This conundrum has created an opportunity for those of us who use Linux in our daily lives.

Extend the hardware lifecycle

Linux has long been noted for adding life to aging hardware. That ability has been a boon to those folks who use computers every day.

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Manjaro vs EndeavourOS: An In-depth Comparison  It's FOSS

Landing this week as part of the various subsystems overseen by Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman were the USB changes for Linux 5.17...