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With the Linux 5.15 kernel merge window likely opening next week, Matthew Wilcox of Oracle has already sent in a prominent pull request to Linus Torvalds: the initial work around landing of the memory folios patches...

The 8 Best Linux Distributions for Penetration Testing  MUO - MakeUseOf

Memory Folios Pull Request Pending For Linux 5.15  Phoronix

Lilbits: Xiaomi drops the Mi, Saygus sued, and a new UI for Linux phones  Liliputing

Last month I wrote about the proposed reflink support for Wine that would provide significant space savings for those having multiple Windows games/applications on Linux installed where Wine and derivatives like Crossover and Steam Play (Proton) generally maintain a separate "prefix" per software installation. Fortunately, that reflink support continues to be worked on for Wine where it can lead to savings up to several hundred megabytes per Wine prefix...

Happy 30th Anniversary Linux! How We Got To Know Ya  TechNewsWorld

Happy 30th Anniversary Linux! How We Got To Know Ya  LinuxInsider.com

Happy 30th Anniversary Linux! How We Got To Know Ya  E-Commerce Times

GTK 4.4 is out as the latest stable update to the GTK4 open-source toolkit...

Market Analysis of Growth Opportunities, Drivers, and Forecast to 2026 for Linux Software by Top Manufacturers, Regions, Type, and Application  BollyInside

Linux software market in the world 2021-2027 Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle and RedHat carried out SWOT analysis  BollyInside

'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1  The Register

Become More Productive on Linux With i3 Tiling Window Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the 1990s, and it is not a Linux distribution  BollyInside

Manjaro 21.1.0 'Pahvo', based on Arch Linux, is now available with GNOME, Xfce and KDE Plasma  BollyInside

Ulauncher: A Super Useful Application Launcher for Linux  It's FOSS

Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security enhances Linux security while providing security management as a service  BollyInside

Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems  The Hacker News

Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security improves Linux security  BollyInside

Zink as an OpenGL-over-Vulkan API implementation living within Mesa merged its sub-allocator code that could deliver 10x the performance for some games. Plus it also landed OpenGL compatibility context support for getting more games working now with this open-source GL-on-VLK solution. Given the progress made in Mesa Git over the past week, here are some fresh benchmarks now for how the performance stands across various games and benchmarks.