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Last month we reported on CUDA documentation pointing to the NVIDIA 470 driver series to be the last supporting GeForce GTX 600/700 Kepler GPUs and that has now been summed up more formally with new guidance out of NVIDIA...

NVIDIA Confirms Plans To Drop "Kepler" GPU Driver Support  Phoronix

A Passion for Operating Systems: An Illinois Undergraduate's Contributions to Linux  Illinois Computer Science News

Intel's Linux engineers continue squaring away the next-generation Alder Lake hybrid processor support. In addition to continued graphics driver work and other platform device IDs being added for the upcoming Linux 5.14 kernel, it looks like ADL's Thunderbolt/USB4 support will be merged too...

Intel Alder Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 Support For Linux 5.14  Phoronix

Rescuing a Linux system from near disaster  Network World

Last year Intel's updated ISA extensions reference guide was updated with references to Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" having High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) given new HBM-related error codes. Now it's even more clear there are Xeon CPUs coming to market with onboard HBM memory as Intel has begun submitting Linux kernel driver changes...

Linux Kernel Prepares For Intel Xeon CPUs With On-Package HBM Memory  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Public Health creates the Global COVID Certificate Network  HIT Consultant

Install Samba on Linux Mint to share files with Windows - Linux Shout  H2S Media

IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee  Yahoo Finance

IdRamp Joins Linux Foundation Public Health Cardea Project Steering Committee  PRNewswire

With last week's launch of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and this week's launch of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti there have been plenty of Linux gaming benchmarks on Phoronix. But for those interested in these new RTX 30 Ampere graphics cards for GPU compute or rendering workloads, in this article are many benchmarks on that front compared to various RTX 20 and RTX 30 series graphics cards.

The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life  VICE

Linux system service bug lets you get root on most modern distros  BleepingComputer

Cloud4C Awarded the Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization  Devdiscourse

Cloud4C Awarded the Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization  PR Newswire India

Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding  Phoronix

While there was kernel talk of merging the PREEMPT_RT code in 2020 for this real-time functionality for the Linux kernel, among other times in the past that has yet to happen. These "RT" patches have long been maintained out-of-tree but it turns out that while in the past it was seemingly close for merging, that effort has stalled for lack of funding...

The seventh release candidate of OpenZFS 2.1 is now available for testing while it looks like soon it will cross the finish line as the latest feature release for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...