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Intel's next-generation C/C++ compilers are fully leveraging the LLVM compiler stack in place of their former proprietary compiler code-base. Intel has "complete[d] adoption" of LLVM moving forward for their C/C++ compiler needs...

Join Fedora Linux Desktop to an Active Directory domain: Here's how  TechRepublic

The latest AMD SEV work happening to the Linux kernel for benefiting EPYC servers with virtualization is the new "sev_secret" module for allowing guests to access confidential computing secret areas...

Linux "sev_secret" Patches For Tapping Confidential Computing Secret Areas In AMD SEV  Phoronix

BlackMatter Group Debuts Linux-Targeting Ransomware  BankInfoSecurity.com

For more than one year now Oracle engineers have been working on Trenchboot support for securely booting the Linux kernel. Sent out today is the third revision of this work for establishing a dynamic root of trust for measurement...

This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS  PC Gamer

How to Install Steam on a Chromebook  Alphr

Arch Linux, Clear Linux & Ubuntu Against Windows 10/11 On Intel Rocket Lake  Phoronix

Last month after Microsoft began publishing their Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, I ran some early Windows 11 benchmarks against Linux using an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Linux led in those benchmarks on the AMD Zen 3 desktop while for those wondering if that still holds true for Intel hardware, here are benchmarks of a Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" desktop with Windows 10 21H1, Windows 11 in its latest preview build as of testing, and then compared to Arch Linux / Clear Linux / Ubuntu.

Feeling Bored? You Can Play Tetris on the Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

Best Linux for 16" MBP? (Apple CSAM scandal)  Mac Rumors

Linux Operating System Market 2021 Business Scenario – Manjaro, Red Hat, Inc, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, IBM Corporation – KhelPanda  KhelPanda

Audio/video encoders and decoders are one of the areas where usage of the Rust programming language has increasing interest for speed and safety. One of the most promising Rust-written encoders at the moment is Rav1e for AV1 video encoding and it's now working towards its v0.5 release...

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Analysis and Forecasts with Key Focus on Global 2021-2028 | Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice), Shimo, Tencent – KhelPanda  KhelPanda

Merged one month ago was RadeonSI enabling by default its optimization to replace uniforms with literals inside shaders. This uniform inlining helped with SPECViewPerf and other workloads but it turns out in the process sharply drove up CPU usage when running some games...

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS is expected later this month as the next point release to the "Focal Fossa" long-term support cycle. With this update comes the hardware enablement stack from Ubuntu 21.04 which in turn means Linux 5.11 and Mesa 21.0 graphics support is available as package updates now...

Linux 101: How do you search for files from the Linux command line?  TechRepublic

When you enter a command into your terminal, there are usually options, also called switches or flags, that you can use to modify how the command runs. This is a useful convention defined by the POSIX specification, so as a programmer, it's helpful to know how to detect and parse options.

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