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What are Set UID, Get UID, and Sticky Bits in Linux File Permissions?  MUO - MakeUseOf

A small but noteworthy change that landed today for the GCC 12 compiler itself is support for using the Mold linker...

New Linux Build Allows BIOS Updates Without a Reboot  Tom's Hardware

New Linux Build Allows BIOS Updates Without a Reboot  Tom's Hardware

New Linux Update to Allow BIOS Updates Without a Reboot  Tom's Hardware

Shift6mq is a modular, repairable (and somewhat Linux-friendly) smartphone from Germany  Liliputing

TasksBoard is the kanban interface for Google Tasks you've been waiting for  TechRepublic

What’s New in Linux Mint 20.3 “Una”  How-To Geek

How to Install and Test Parrot OS in VirtualBox  MUO - MakeUseOf

Fedora is often on the bleeding-edge of changes for tier-one Linux distributions but not all of them are very technical in nature but sometimes just cosmetic alterations. Among the latest batch of change proposals for next spring's Fedora 36 is to change the default font...

XeroLinux is a refreshingly cool desktop in desperate need of some polish  TechRepublic

AMD AOCC 3.2 vs. GCC vs. Clang Compiler Performance On Zen 3  Phoronix

How to install Mongodb Server on Linux mint 18 | 19 | 20  Linux Shout

How to install Mongodb Server on Linux mint 18 | 19 | 20  H2S Media

Earlier this month AMD released AOCC 3.2 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang-based compiler focused on delivering optimized Zen performance. With our initial AMD AOCC 3.2 benchmarks on Zen 3, there is nice incremental improvement compared to the prior 3.x releases. But how does this AMD-optimized compiler stack up against the upstream LLVM Clang and GCC compilers? Here is a look at the AMD AOCC performance against the current Clang and GCC C/C++ compilers.

For those with systems making use of an Intel "Titan Ridge" Thunderbolt 3 controller, a Linux kernel driver improvement working its way to mainline should yield thermal/power benefits...

Improved Thermal/Power Management For Intel "Titan Ridge" Thunderbolt Coming To Linux  Phoronix

Last year there was some work for getting Gallium3D Zink working on macOS for this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation to in turn run it atop the MoltenVK library for translating the Vulkan calls to Apple's Metal graphics/compute API. That work fell into disrepair but now the fixed up code for allowing Zink to build on Apple's operating system has been merged into Mesa 22.0...

As part of our various year-end articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the year with the many milestones they achieved in ramping up their support both for desktop/mobile and server hardware and continued successes when it comes to their open-source Radeon graphics driver stack...

How to Switch from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8.4  Security Boulevard