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The Apache Software Foundation recently published their FY2021 report for their year-ended 30 April. Even with the ongoing pandemic, the Apache Software Foundation managed to raise more than $3M USD and enjoyed a host of software successes...

Download and install Google Chrome for Fedora 34 Linux  H2S Media

We are now down to the last day of the Linux 5.15 merge window and one of the patch series we have been waiting to see if it would land during this two week period was the "folios" code -- or that also was recently renamed to "pagesets" to address some concerns over the name...

It's Looking Like Folios / Pagesets Might Miss Making It Into Linux 5.15  Phoronix

In addition to the RISC-V changes merged last week for the Linux 5.15 kernel, a second batch of patches was merged this weekend...

A typical work year would involve my attending maybe six to eight conferences in person and speaking at quite a few of them. A few years ago, I stopped raiding random booths at the exhibitions usually associated with these for t-shirts for the simple reason that I had too many of them. That's not to say that I wouldn't accept one here or there if it was particularly nice, or an open source project which I esteemed particularly, for instance. Or ones which I thought my kids would like—they're not "cool" but are at least useful for sleepwear, apparently.

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Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults  Phoronix

Linux Preparing To Slightly Loosen Its Spectre Defaults  Phoronix

A change first proposed last year to the Linux kernel's Spectre mitigation defaults looks like it will soon be sent in for the mainline kernel...

Question about Keepass XC File Management? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How to List Installed Packages in Ubuntu With APT  MUO - MakeUseOf

Pysa Ransomware Gang Debuts Linux Support  BankInfoSecurity.com

While the Rust programming language support for usage within the kernel isn't landing for the Linux 5.15 merge window ending this weekend, that effort remains ongoing. A status update on the effort was shared this week about Rust usage for the Linux kernel...

The Latest Progress On Rust For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Another batch of minor optimizations were merged to Mesa 21.3 for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

How to Play PC Games on Linux With Lutris  MUO - MakeUseOf

2 Ways to install TeamViewer on Fedora 34 Linux  H2S Media

3 Ways to install Telegram app on Fedora Linux  H2S Media

While much of Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processor support appears to be in good shape for Linux 5.14, some remaining items are landing for the current Linux 5.15 cycle. The latest Alder Lake support hitting the kernel is for Intel's TCC cooling driver...

CoreCtrl 1.2 was released this week as the open-source, independently-developed application for exposing more sensor support on Linux and offering various controls aroudnd over/under-clocking and other tuning. At the moment CoreCtrl is primarily focused on making the most use of AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux with some options not otherwise readily available on the platform...