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Windows to Debian Translation - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.13-rc5 ahead of Linux 5.13 potentially releasing later this month but depending upon how the rest of the cycle plays out could end up in early July...

Linux 5.13-rc5 Is Fairly Average In Size But Not Calming Down Yet  Phoronix

The latest updates to Valve's Proton Experimental build for Steam Play should be offering lower input latency...

Everything You Need to Know About Using Tor Browser on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Version 2.32 of the Git distributed revision control system is now available with a variety of improvements from performance optimizations to usability enhancements and a whole lot of bug fixes...

Git 2.32 Released With Numerous Improvements  Phoronix

Syxsense Releases New Linux Remote Terminal and Troubleshooting Tools  Digital Journal

The Linux x86/x86_64 kernel code already had logic in place for reserving portions of the first 1MB of RAM to avoid the BIOS or kernel potentially clobbering that space among other reasons while now Linux 5.13 is doing away with that "wankery" and will just unconditionally always reserve the first 1MB of RAM...

Linux x86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve The First 1MB Of RAM  Phoronix

AMD shouldn't rely on Nvidia to help with FidelityFX Super Resolution - but Linux gamers instead  TechRadar

Linux Operating System Market Analysis, Reviews And Precise Outlook 2020 – 2026 – The Courier  The Courier

In addition to getting Intel's Alder Lake hybrid processors ready for the Linux kernel and other areas of the operating system stack, Intel's open-source engineers have continued their trend in recent weeks of upstreaming more Alder Lake work into Coreboot...

More Intel Alder Lake Enablement Landing For Coreboot  Phoronix

Linux Mint vs Fedora: Which One Should You Use?  It's FOSS

Robert McQueen, the President of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, wrote a post this week ultimately about the GNOME project's need to broaden its focus in order to attract more new users and ultimately to be able to raise funds from new organizations outside of their traditional reach. If they aren't able to find new funding sources, they may need to scale back in some of their efforts but still have a sufficient safety net...

For two years now we have seen various open-source patches around ENQCMD instructions for the code compilers and the Linux kernel. This Enqueue Stores support is part of Intel's Data Streaming Accelerator coming with Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids". But even with Sapphire Rapids not launching until later this year, the already merged Linux kernel code is force-disabling the ENQCMD instructions support as the current kernel support is deemed "broken beyond repair" and will need to be reworked...

Linux Disables Intel's New ENQCMD Feature Since Kernel Code "Broken Beyond Repair"  Phoronix

Week in review: Kali Linux 2021.2, the human cost of understaffed SOCs, Patch Tuesday forecast  Help Net Security

How to choose the right Linux distribution  TechRepublic