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AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm  Phoronix

The thermal subsystem updates for the Linux 5.14 kernel include more work on Intel's int340x driver that is used by newer Intel laptops for dealing with their varying thermal control capabilities and exposing more thermal information to user-space for use by Intel's Thermal Daemon (Thermald). This cycle the work includes a new driver that will be used by next-gen Alder Lake SoCs...

Voice Interoperability Movement Gathers Momentum, Thanks To Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

Voice Interoperability Movement Gathers Momentum, Thanks To Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

GNU Binutils 2.37 has been branched and the release process initiated for these low-level GNU components likely seeing their v2.37 release later this month...

Among the many new features that were sent in so far this week for the Linux 5.14 merge window was the long in-development work on "core scheduling" to reduce the Hyper Threading information leakage risks from side channels and help ensuring deterministic performance on such HT/SMT systems by controlling the resources that can run on a sibling thread. As a follow-up to that article from a few days ago, core scheduling will now be disabled by default...

Linux Will Keep Core Scheduling Disabled By Default  Phoronix

The Linux kernel's Distributed Lock Manager as a general purpose DLM for kernel and user-space applications with cluster computing systems is seeing a useful reliability improvement with Linux 5.14...

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Hacked via linux - Virus, Trojan, Spyware, and Malware Removal Help  BleepingComputer

The EXT4 file-system updates have been sent in for the ongoing Linux 5.14 merge window...

Linux 5.14 With EXT4 Adds Interface To Help Prevent Information Leakage From The Journal  Phoronix

How to Download and Install Signal Desktop on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

WiFiWart Linux Pentesting Device Gets First PCBs  Hackaday

How to Use procfs to Get System Related Information in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Add User to Sudoers or Sudo Group in AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to try Linux without touching your Windows installation  Tech News Inc

Intel open-source engineers continue working on the bring-up around Compute Express Link (CXL) as the new open standard interconnect built off PCIe aiming to empower next-generation servers...

CXL Bring-Up Continues - More Infrastructure For Linux 5.14, "More Meat" For Linux 5.15  Phoronix

How To Add User to Sudoers or Sudo Group on Rocky Linux 8  H2S Media