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While some Huawei engineers are currently facing criticism for submitting superfluous kernel patches in an effort to boost their own or the company's standing in the kernel community, other engineers are Huawei are working on more substantive kernel patches. Here's a rather peculiar new patch series out on Friday where a Huawei engineer is effectively proposing an in-kernel transactional database...

Even with Akademy 2021 this week as the annual KDE developer conference, thanks in part to it being a virtual event the KDE developers still managed to remain quite productive on new code changes...

The Large Hadron Collider is powered by Linux. Laptops on the International Space Station run on Linux.

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Rocky Linux 8.4, codenamed Green Obsidian, is finally here! It was released on June 21, 2021, barely two months after the release of Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) which is a beta

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How to Convert File Formats With Pandoc in Linux [Quick Guide]  It's FOSS

Huawei dev scolded for pointless Linux kernel code contributions  The Register

Linux: How to send command output to a file  TechRepublic

Here’s how Android apps on Windows 11 are going to work  Ars Technica

Flatpak for Beginners: An Introduction to Downloading Software With Flatpak  MUO - MakeUseOf

Flatpak for Beginners: An Introduction to Downloading Software With Flatpak  MakeUseOf

Coreboot making progress on its temporary RAM initialization code (cache as RAM) means that its usage of the FSP-T binary blob is increasingly unnecessary...

A Beginners Guide to Using Unicode Characters - Linux How-To and Tutorial Section  BleepingComputer

Valve and their partners have issued a new version of Proton for powering Steam Play to enjoy Windows games on Linux...

Proton 6.3-5 Released With A Number Of Improvements For Windows Games On Linux  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation launches Open Voice Network to build industrywide digital assistant standards  TechRepublic

Will We Soon Be Running Linux On SiFive Cores Made By Intel?  Hackaday

MOVING DOCUMENTS from sda1 to sdb1 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at GCC 11 performance with varying optimization levels and features like link-time optimizations. Stemming from reader requests, here are now similar reference benchmarks off LLVM Clang 12.0 on the same system with going from -O0 to -Ofast and toggling -march=native and LTO usage.

Earlier this month systemd 249-rc1 arrived with a variety of new features and improvements. Now for closing out the month is a second release candidate...

If all is looking well on Sunday, Linus Torvalds will be releasing Linux 5.13 as stable rather than going with a 5.13-rc8 test release and pushing the final version back by an additional release. In either case, Linux 5.13 is coming out soon and with many new features in tow...