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OpenZFS 2.1.3 bugfix brings compatibility with Linux 5.16  The Register

Wine 7.4 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

How to Prevent Packages From Getting Updated in Arch Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Kali Linux adds VM-like snapshot feature to bare-metal installs  BleepingComputer

Linux Kernel 5.17 Brings Important Performance Improvements for AMD Ryzen CPUs  Appuals

The Performance Impact Of AMD Changing Their Retpoline Method For Spectre V2  Phoronix

Made public this week was the Spectre-BHB / BHI vulnerability and while only Intel and Arm processors are currently believed to be impacted, in the course of that research the folks at VUSec discovered AMD's current Retpoline strategy for Spectre V2 mitigations is not adequate. This has led to a change in behavior for AMD processors and is already applied to the Linux kernel. Here is a look at what it means for desktop and server performance due to the change in return trampoline handling.

For AMD Navi "RDNA1" GPUs and newer having at least Video Core Next 2.0 (VCN2) for the video coding block, a new feature was merged today into Mesa 22.1-devel for the open-source AMD video acceleration stack...

This Week in IT - Linux Gets Its Pipes Dirty  Petri.com

How to Install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04  Linux Shout

Linux Virtual Consoles Explained: What They Are and How to Access Them  MUO - MakeUseOf

Get over 100 hours of training to guide you through your entire Linux career for $70  ZDNet

5 Linux Alternatives for Windows PowerToys  How-To Geek

Intel CPUs Suffer Performance Hit From New Spectre-v2 Mitigations  Tom's Hardware

The Linux Foundation's Open Source Stack for EV Charging Infrastructure – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

Global Linux Software Market 2022 | Upcoming Trends, Latest Developments, Covid19 Analysis with Top Most Key Vendors – Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM – The Bollywood Ticket  The Bollywood Ticket

Linux 5.17 will hopefully be released on Sunday and with that next kernel there are many exciting features in tow. But for as great as Linux 5.17 is, there are many features I am already eager for with Linux 5.18. Here is an early look at a number of the changes expected in this next kernel version...

In addition to releasing FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1, the FreeBSD project also published its Q4'2021 status report to recap all of the open-source activities achieved for this BSD operating system during the past quarter...

Back in 2019 that seems like an eternity ago with all that's gone on in the world, the Linux kernel deprecated a.out support. This executable / object code / shared library file format was used prior to the dominance of ELF but is seldom if ever used today. There have been pending patches to finally remove a.out from the kernel while the plan now is to stop building it on Alpha and Motorola 68000 targets to see if anyone notices/cares...

Linux Plans To Stop Building a.out Support On Alpha & M68k To See If Anyone Cares  Phoronix