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Miguel Ojeda just sent out the fourth revision of the Rust programming language support for use within the Linux kernel. This optional Rust programming support for Linux kernel drivers and the likes continues maturing and this year will hopefully see mainline status...

Lutris 0.5.10-beta1 was just tagged as the newest version of this open-source game manager that supports integration with various game stores/services and other convenient features...

How To Install Budgie Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Started recently was an experimental VA-API implementation atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface. This independently-developed, open-source implementation has successfully allowed Mozilla Firefox's VA-API video acceleration to work with NVIDIA's proprietary driver with its NVDEC video decoding interface. A new release of nvidia-vaapi-driver is now available that now offers AV1 support too...

Linux Software Market Advancing the Growth Globally by Microsoft, Twitter, Oracle, DELL – Talking Democrat  Talking Democrat

Along with this week bringing ROCm 5.0, on Friday AMD engineers released Radeon AOMP 14.0-2 as their downstream of LLVM/Clang focused on carrying the latest patches for OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

IoT and Blockchain Market Regional Growth Overview 2022, Gross Margin by | Factom, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Ethereum Foundation, KrypC, The Linux Foundation, etc – Talking Democrat  Talking Democrat

While Plasma 5.24 released this week, KDE developers didn't take it easy and have remained very busy progressing their open-source desktop stack with fixes for Plasma 5.24.1, new feature work for the next Plasma release, and driving ahead their Frameworks and Applications too...

Managers of open source communities have to be aware of the 5 levels of transparency that they can provide. These 5 levels of transparency are important for building a thriving open source community. 

This article describes each level, its goals, and why they are important. But first, I revisit why transparency is important for open source ecosystems.

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While still a work-in-progress and dependent upon other Arm SoC patches for actual functionality, on Friday the initial Arm Mali "Valhall" patches were sent out for the Panfrost Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver...

How To Install Linux On Your Chromebook  BollyInside

Ahead of the Steam Deck being released later this month, Valve today opened up all the Steam Deck design files to the public...

Elkhart Lake powers Pico-ITX, Qseven, and SMARC boards  LinuxGizmos.com

A Beginner's Guide to Metasploit in Kali Linux (With Practical Examples)  MUO - MakeUseOf

Wine 7.2 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other operating systems...

Yesterday Google Cloud launched their C2D instance type as their newest compute-optimized instances powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series processors. here are some quick benchmarks looking at the C2D performance against the existing Intel Xeon powered C2 instance type and the former EPYC 7002 based N2D instance type.

SimulaVR Is Launching Pre-Orders for Linux on Your Face  How-To Geek

How to Browse the Gopher Network on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

5 Better USENET Readers for Linux - Make Tech Easier  Make Tech Easier

5 Better USENET Readers for Linux - Make Tech Easier  Make Tech Easier