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How To Move and Rename Files in Linux  Tom's Hardware

While the Apple M1 SoC is a great piece of hardware, a large part of what has made Apple Silicon so successful with their newest Macs has been their Rosetta 2 software for dynamically translating x86/x86_64 software to run well on these 64-bit Arm systems. Existing applications and games optimized for prior Intel Macs continue running generally in excellent shape on their newest hardware thanks to Rosetta 2. While there is the ongoing Linux bring-up work for Apple Silicon on Linux, the open-source world doesn't currently have that advantage of a compelling Rosetta 2 alternative but the FEX-Emu project hopes to change that outlook...

FEX-Emu Is Working On Speedy x86/x86_64 Games Support On AArch64, Including Proton  Phoronix

While Linux 5.17 is introducing the ASUS WMI EC Sensors driver for greatly expanding Linux's support for hardware sensor coverage on newer ASUS desktop motherboards, already with Linux 5.18 that driver will be deprecated to make way for a new ASUS EC sensor driver replacement...

A Linux kernel driver was posted today for platform control support for Valve's upcoming Steam Deck...

Besides all of the Linux-focused talks at the annual FOSDEM conference, another favorite track of mine is that on micro-kernels and other operating systems. While there wasn't the GNU/Hurd status update in 2022 as there has been in some recent years, there was a talk over GNU/Hurd using NetBSD kernel drivers in order to expand its hardware coverage...

GNU/Hurd Continues Effort To Use NetBSD's Drivers For Better Hardware Support  Phoronix

Inkscape 1.1.2 Delivers More Bug Fixes, Inkscape 1.2 Promises Major UX Changes  9to5Linux

IBM PalmTop Running Modern (Modified) Linux  Hackaday

Maybe you've heard that playwright William Shakespeare contributed 1,700 new words to the English language. But did you know that he has an entire programming language as well?

SPL (Shakespeare programming language) was created to make source code resemble Shakespeare plays. It is an esoteric language, also known as an esolang. An esolang is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, create a challenge for programmers, or simply serve as a source of amusement, rather than for practical use.

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format the ISO I flashed or not - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux Software Market 2022 Increasing Demand, Top Trends with Leading Key Players – Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Novell, Oracle, IBM, etc – Cleveland Sports Zone  Cleveland Sports Zone

IoT and Blockchain Market 2022 Increasing Demand, Top Trends with Leading Key Players – Amazon, Iotex, Filament, The Linux Foundation, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, etc – Cleveland Sports Zone  Cleveland Sports Zone

For use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Oracle this week released Oracle Linux 8.5 onto the Microsoft Store...

How to Use hashcat to Crack Hashes on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

There's been some activity on AMD open-source firmware support for newer hardware platforms but for those wanting a fully open-source firmware stack, there remains work on older generations of AMD server platforms. Michał Żygowski of firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented today at FOSDEM 2022 as to the current state AMD open-source firmware efforts around Coreboot...

External HDD says "not initialized, but works on Win10 AND Linux Mint Laptops - Windows 10 Support  BleepingComputer

Microsoft continues work on their controversial "DXGKRNL" driver they hope to mainline into the Linux kernel for benefiting their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) efforts...

Intel has for a while been posting Linux kernel patches for implementing Control Flow Enforcement (CET) technology, both for the Indirect Branch Tracking and Shadow Stack features. However, as written about earlier this week, Intel is focusing on the shadow stack support for user-space. The patches posted this past week by Intel for Linux Shadow Stack for User-Space support was limited to their own processors but fortunately it's appearing to be work out fine for AMD CPUs too...

KDE continues seeing a lot of Wayland fixes landing as well as general crash fixes and addressing other glitches with this popular desktop environment...