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SSH Is Magic, But Tunnels Are Even Better  Hackaday

How to Install CentOS Stream on a PC  MUO - MakeUseOf

In addition to Ubuntu 22.04 switching back NVIDIA to using X11 by default rather than Wayland as a launch-day change, separately, there was another rather notable last minute change affecting 3D support for virtual machines... Those with Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and launching Ubuntu 22.04 desktop VMs will find 3D acceleration disabled by default...

The widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has merged support for the JPEG-XL image format...

Cryptomining botnet targeting Docker on Linux systems  Channel Asia Singapore

AMD's open-source Linux engineers on the CPU side of the house continue being quite busy with all sorts of new feature enablement work, which given their timing and other factors is almost all definitively for upcoming Zen 4. AMD this week sent out updated patches in getting "PerfMonV2" support in order that is updated performance monitoring abilities with upcoming processors...

AMD Sends Out Updated Linux Patches For PerfMonV2 That's Expected With Zen 4  Phoronix

In addition to CUPS back to seeing new feature development for this print server now being managed by OpenPrinting, CUPS founder Michael Sweet also continues being quite busy with working on PAPPL as his modern printer application framework effort...

StarFive releases Perf tool for highest performance RISC-V IP Dubhe (Sponsored)  CNX Software

Cryptomining botnet targeting Docker on Linux systems  ARNnet

Fix Server execution failed error in WSL  TheWindowsClub

nablet Releases JPEG XS SDK to Create Workflows Based on Powerful New Video Standard  PR Web

How to Use ksnip to Capture and Annotate Screenshots on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 7 Best IDEs and Text Editors for C# Developers  MUO - MakeUseOf

Wanted: A Complete – And Heavily Customizable – HPC Software Stack  The Next Platform

Limiting threads to a certain amount and going trough a list - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

While back in March Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" changed the default behavior for NVIDIA's driver to use Wayland inline with Intel and Radeon graphics having used the GNOME Wayland session rather than X.Org for the past few releases, this change was reverted at the last-minute. With a launch-day SRU, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is defaulting to using the GNOME X.Org session rather than Wayland when running the proprietary NVIDIA driver...

Being sent in as a fix for Linux 5.18-rc3 is supporting various marine navigation keycodes with at least Garmin's boat steering wheels and marine navigation displays running Linux...

Another week, another batch of new AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature work ready for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the next kernel cycle. Feature code continues building up in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.19 cycle...

Even amid all the April software releases, KDE developers remain very busy working on their open-source desktop stack...