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Linux users running Intel Arc GPUs will benefit from FPS-boosting Resizable BAR  PC Gamer

New LockBit Ransomware Variant Evolves To Target Linux Systems  Cyber Security News

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card for the $199 USD price point. While built on the current-generation RDNA2 architecture, this graphics card was widely panned for its price while only offering 4GB of video memory, limited to PCIe x4 bandwidth, and performance similar to the years-old Polaris GPUs. While all the major benchmarks online to this point have been under Windows, here is a look at how the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is performing under Linux.

This tool will make playing Epic Games on Steam Deck much easier  TechRadar

For years Intel has been working on Linux patches for supporting their Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) with Indirect Branch Tracking and Shadow Stack support. It's been in the works for years and through many revisions while now they are pursuing a new route and focusing just on the Shadow Stack user-space functionality...

Read and Organize Markdown Files in Linux Terminal With Glow  It's FOSS

You may recall the news from a few months ago about the work to improve Btrfs' on-disk format in addressing "painful parts" of its design. That "extrent-tree-v2" work has been progressing and recently was queued up into the Btrfs for-next code albeit hidden behind a debug flag...

Intel open-source engineer Marcel Holtmann is marking the end of January with new releases to their ConnMan Linux network connection manager software along with a new IWD as their iNet Wireless Daemon as an alternative to WPA_Supplicant on Linux systems...

Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build  Phoronix

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This article covers the configuration of a CI pipeline for a C++ project on GitLab. My previous articles covered how to set up a build system based on CMake and VSCodium and how to integrate unit tests based on GoogleTest and CTest. This article is a follow-up on extending the configuration by using a CI pipeline. First, I demonstrate the pipeline setup and then its execution.

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6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  Linux Shout

6 Best Linux distros to try on VirtualBox virtual machine  H2S Media

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2022: Google, WordPerfect, Apple Inc, SoftMaker (FreeOffice), Shimo, Yozodcs, SG WORK, Tencent, yiqixie.com, Kingsoft etc….  Bristol City Supporters Trust

Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build  Phoronix

While many Linux enthusiasts like to cite Linux's stellar support for older hardware platforms, in reality that isn't always the case. For instance with many old X.Org user-space mode-setting drivers for powering old graphics cards at least for display purposes, they can no longer even build with with modern toolchains / software components. Given the lack of bug reports around such issues, there are very likely few users trying some of these vintage hardware combinations...

Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi's latest multi-distro demo image  Liliputing

That puppy linux is quite difficult - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Debian-based Nitrux 2.0.0 Linux distribution now available with KDE Plasma 5.23.5  BetaNews