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XWayland Adds Support For Touchpad Gestures  Phoronix

While RHEL9 is just in beta form right now, due to CentOS Stream 9 now having launched and that effectively serving as the bleeding-edge of the RHEL9 upstream, EPEL 9 has already launched...

There's something special about maps. I remember opening the front book cover of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit when I was younger, staring at the hand-drawn map of Middle Earth, and feeling the wealth of possibility contained in the simple drawing. Aside from their obvious purpose of actually describing where things are in relation to other things, I think maps do a great job of expressing potential. You could step outside and take the road this way or that way, and if you do, just think of all the new and exciting things you'll be able to see.

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Edge, pop-up against Chrome (even on Linux): what a bad practice, Microsoft!  D1SoftballNews.com

19 Absolute Simple Things About Linux Terminal Every Ubuntu User Should Know  It's FOSS

Hard Link question - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

2 ways to install Chrome Browser on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 Linux  Linux Shout

2 ways to install Chrome Browser on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 Linux  H2S Media

Genode OS as the interesting open-source operating system framework is out with its v21.11 release this week and delivers on many hardware improvements and other features...

Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy | 20.04 Focal - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Added to the in-development Linux 5.16 kernel was cluster-aware scheduling designed to enhance system performance where groups of CPU cores may share caches or similar and thus the scheduler could benefit from knowing that information for making more optimal task placement. But as I pointed out early on with Linux 5.16, this cluster scheduling is hurting the Intel Alder Lake performance on the new kernel. Intel is now working to correct this by making the cluster scheduling configurable and disabling this functionality by default for hybrid CPUs such as Alder Lake...

Ahead of Intel ARC graphics cards premiering next year, Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers remain very busy preparing for the next-generation graphics capabilities...

How to install AnyDesk on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

How to install AnyDesk on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  H2S Media

Install AnyDesk on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy via Command terminal  H2S Media

AMD on Friday published a new version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" software development kit that enhances the multimedia processing capabilities for Radeon hardware...

Taking place this week was the annual Open-Source Firmware Conference "OSFC" devoted to open-source firmware from Coreboot to open-source BMC solutions and other low-level booting/initialization efforts...

Open-Source Firmware Conference 2021 Videos Now Available  Phoronix

This week saw many fixes landing for the KDE desktop components along with some UI tweaking and other alterations...

KDE Starts December With Numerous Fixes, Other Desktop Refinements  Phoronix