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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...

Ahead of the Steam Deck shipping later this month, here is where the Steam on Linux marketshare currently stands...

Steam On Linux Hovered Just Above 1% For January 2022  Phoronix

Have you ever wished programming were more like an action movie? If you answered yes, then I have the language for you.

While wandering the internet to find the most obscure and fun open source languages, I came across ArnoldC. ArnoldC is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

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Beyond Mankind: The Awakening Old School Action RPG Is Out Now on Linux  9to5Linux

While it's not the same as sitting in Brussels and enjoying some Belgian beers while socializing in-person with developers, the annual Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is happening this weekend online...

As a particularly important move for Linux gamers and enthusiasts where you may be riding frequent Git builds of new Mesa graphics drivers or even the bi-weekly point releases - compared to the multi-week/monthly update regiment for Windows graphics drivers - Valve's Steam client will now flush its stale shader cache upon GPU/driver changes. This is important for conserving disk space especially where storage constraints are possible like with the Steam Deck...