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New Linux Kernel Cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container  The Hacker News

I’ve recently explored some of the differences between Java and Groovy when creating and initializing lists and building lists at runtime. I observed the simple facilities provided by Groovy for these purposes in comparison to the complexity required in Java.

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I Tested The New Maui Shell On My Linux Phone. Here’s What I Found!  It's FOSS News

Linux can get your tired old computer up and running again  The Star Online

Back in January I wrote about LatencyFlex as an open-source, vendor-agnostic alternative to NVIDIA Reflex. This drop-in replacement to NVIDIA's proprietary solution focused on reducing rendering latency is out with its very first release...

Installed new RAM and laptop shut down (over-heated, perhaps?) - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Apache NetBeans 13 is now available as the latest version of this popular open-source integrated development environment (IDE)...

Purism's Librem 5 Linux smartphone costs $1299 after the latest price hike  Liliputing

After many years of waiting and past faltered efforts, "Imagination Tech publishing a new open-source driver" probably wasn't on your bingo card for 2022... But they are doing such with a new open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for Mesa...

17 Important Linux Interview Questions with Answers  Linux Journal

1. Hey Linux Users: New Steam Deck Owners Really Need Your Help  Forbes
2. A brief tour of the Steam Deck’s Linux implementation  Ars Technica
3. For Linux Enthusiasts Especially, The Steam Deck Is An Incredible & Fun Device  Phoronix
4. Steam Deck: 7 Unexpected Things We Discovered - IGN  IGN
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Hey Linux Users: New Steam Deck Owners Really Need Your Help  Forbes

In addition to this morning's release of VKD3D-Proton 2.6, DXVK 1.10 has been released as the Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

How to Install and Use Cerebro: A Spotlight Alternative for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Top 10 Articles About Linux: February 2022  ITPro Today

VKD3D-Proton 2.6 is out as the latest update to this project used by Steam Play / Proton for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan for accelerating Windows games on Linux...

3 Ways to install Blender 3D on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

TheServerHost Launched Cheapest Italy, Milan, Rome VPS Server Hosting Plans offering Linux and Windows OS  EIN News

New AMD Radeon Firmware Published For Upcoming GPUs  Phoronix

Besides the dance of getting all of the various open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver components upstreamed (i.e. the Linux kernel, Mesa, libdrm, LLVM back-end) and worked out to major Linux distributions in time for new graphics processor releases, another challenge has been on the firmware/microcode front with also needing those binary blobs made publicly available in time and also picked up by the Linux distributions. For some past Radeon graphics card launches AMD hasn't posted those necessary blobs until the day of or a few days past launch. Fortunately, ahead of their next launch, the initial firmware binaries were posted today...