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Is it possible to survive on a Linux desktop with just Flatpak?  BollyInside

It looks like within the coming days that the Vulkan ray-tracing support for Mesa's "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver will be upstreamed for Mesa 21.3...

In addition to the block subsystem changes submitted for the Linux 5.15 merge window, Jens Axboe also sent in a separate pull request for this new kernel cycle to provide support for bio recycling. In turn this can enhance the Linux I/O limits by around 10%...

How to use tail to view real-time log data in Linux 101  BollyInside

How to Install KDE Plasma on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Pyston began many years ago as an open-source JIT-based Python implementation developed by Dropbox. But after Dropbox dropped Pyston development, it went dormant for several years before the developers decided to create their own start-up around it and released Pyston 2.0. The Pyston developers are now joining well known Python organization Anaconda...

Linux block subsystem maintainer and I/O expert Jens Axboe sent in his set of feature pull requests today for the Linux 5.15 kernel cycle...

What are aliases, and how do you use them in Linux?  TechRepublic

Hackers Chased Major Linux Flaws  BollyInside

Linux 101: How to easily view real-time log entries with tail  TechRepublic

Decades old $1B Linux lawsuit involving IBM is settled – or is it?  WRAL Tech Wire

Learn to think of sed, awk, and grep on the Linux / BSD command line  BollyInside

Background to the Linux anniversary: ​​Linus Torvalds’ kernel is 30 years old  Market Research Telecast

Benchmarking on Crostini (Linux for Chrome OS) with Vulkan produces unexpected results  BollyInside

How to Install and Use Jitsi Meet on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Scheduler Changes For Linux 5.15 - Still No Sign Of Any Intel Thread Director Optimizations  Phoronix

Ingo Molnar began sending in his pull requests bright and early as usual for the just-opened Linux 5.15 merge window. With the scheduler changes for this next kernel version there are some improvements worth mentioning but also worth mentioning is what hasn't found its way to the kernel yet: any software optimizations around Intel Thread Director for upcoming Alder Lake processors...

Worked on for more than one year is the patches out of Amazon for allowing opt-in L1 data cache flushing on context switching. This L1d flushing is done in the name of greater security given the various CPU speculative execution hardware vulnerabilities these days and protecting against other possible future vulnerabilities. After trying to get the code merged last summer, Linus Torvalds called it "beyond stupid" and reverted the code but now for Linux 5.15 a revised form of it was submitted...

Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep  Ars Technica

That Linux lawsuit: 20 years later, SCO vs IBM may finally be ending  ZDNet