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Announced at the end of last year was an experimental Wayland driver for Wine providing native Wayland support without relying on X11/XWayland. In the months since that yet-to-be-merged driver has continued supporting more functionality and with the latest update is much more viable...

Experimental Wayland Driver For Wine Now Supports Vulkan, Other Features  Phoronix

AMD's un-identified APU makes its appearance in the latest Linux graphics patch  TechnoSports

Nvidia and Valve Team Up to Bring DLSS To Linux Systems  GameRant

Torvalds hopes future Linux 5.13 release candidates will 'start shrinking'  Developer Tech

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 P-State CPU Frequency Scaling Comparison  Phoronix

As part of the curiosity-driven benchmarks and areas of technical interest now that we've gotten some of our initial Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 "Ice Lake" benchmarks out of the way has been looking into the performance of Linux's P-State CPU frequency scaling driver on the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable server. Benchmarked for the latesting testing was the power/efficiency out-of-the-box with P-State powersave as used by default with many Linux distributions against the P-State "performance" mode as well as putting P-State into passive mode to be able to via intel_cpufreq to try the Schedutil governor that relies on the kernel's scheduler utilization data for making frequency scaling decisions. Here is a number of power/performance governor benchmarks with the dual Xeon Platinum 8380 server in these varying kernel configurations.

Linux 101: Why file and directory names lack spaces  TechRepublic

Sadly there isn't much to report on at this time around improved open-source "Nouveau" driver support for the recent GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series while even the GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series graphics processors are in poor shape for this unofficial river. But when it comes to the aging GeForce 200 series, select models there are finally seeing OpenGL ES 3.1 supported by this open-source driver...

As Linux Foundation's Zephyr Project Turns Five, Addressing Constrained Device Challenges is More Important Than Ever  IoT Evolution World

Want to Try Kali Linux? Here’s How to Install It in VirtualBox  MUO - MakeUseOf

Mesa's Direct3D 12 driver maintained by Microsoft as part of their WSL and Windows OpenGL-over-D3D12 efforts has added a means of being able to select between multiple GPUs/adapters...

Linux Foundation Kubernetes Certifications Now Include Exam Simulator  AiThority

While Qt 6.1 released just one month ago, Qt 6.2 as of today is already into its feature freeze. This quicker than normal time to feature freeze comes due to this year's Qt releases being tightened up following the Qt 6.0 debut at the end of last year. Qt 6.2 will be the first Long Term Support (LTS) release of the Qt6 series...

Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6  Phoronix

What you can find out asking which, whereis and whatis in Linux  Network World

Queued up now into the EXT4 file-system's "dev" tree is the recent work on a journal checkpoint ioctl (EXT4_IOC_CHECKPOINT) and optional support for TRIM/discard or zero-out support on journal flushes. This is the work that came about in recent months in working to ensure the privacy of deleted file names from the system...

Linux 5.14 To Allow EXT4 Journal Checkpoints From User-Space For Extra Privacy  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds: Busy Linux 5.13 release candidate not a major concern  TechRadar

Linus Torvalds: Busy Linux 5.13 release candidate not a major concern  Techradar