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Linux is back on smartphones: The PinePhone Beta Edition starts at US$150 and fails to impress  Notebookcheck.net

In addition to AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors offering fantastic performance, another important highlight for these new Zen 3 server processors is SEV-SNP for upping the Secure Encrypted Virtualization capabilities. AMD has been offering SEV "Secure Nested Paging" patches via a GitHub repository while now they are working towards mainlining this feature for the Linux kernel...

Betanews : GNOME 40 Linux desktop environment is here  BetaNews

Discord has apparently reached out to Microsoft to discuss its sale.  HardForum

AMD Is Trying To Optimize Their Gallium3D Driver Even Further With Lower Overhead  Phoronix

While the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source OpenGL driver for Linux systems is very well received and generally outperforming the proprietary AMD OpenGL driver on Linux/Windows and performing very strong against NVIDIA's proprietary OpenGL driver too, it's not game over for this older graphics API and AMD is still working to lower the CPU overhead even further for this open-source code...

Senior Manager, Linux and Storage job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 249860  Times Higher Education (THE)

PinePhone Beta Edition Linux smartphone is now available for pre-order for $150 and up  Liliputing

PinePhone Beta Edition Linux smartphone is now available for pre-order for $150 and up  Liliputing

The big GNOME 40 desktop update is now available...

news digest: Circonus' new Linux host monitoring dashboard, API company Reshuffle joins Twitter, and PyPI becomes a GitHub secret scanning integrator - SD Times  SDTimes.com

Fedora Linux 34 beta Launched  EnterpriseTalk

AMD today released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 driver packages for Windows and Linux systems...

AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 for Linux  Phoronix

Raised during the recent discussion over looking at removing Mesa's classic drivers from the mainline tree this year is that there still exists an effort trying to create an Intel Gallium3D driver for older pre-Broadwell graphics currently only served by the i965 classic driver. That Crocus effort continues to be worked on but isn't yet mainline...

AOMedia libaom 3.0.0 was released on Tuesday by Google engineers as this reference AV1 video encoder...

Microsoft Edge on Linux gets sign-in and sync support  ZDNet

Microsoft Surface "DTX" Driver Slated For Linux 5.13  Phoronix

While Microsoft often likes to proclaim their "love" for Linux, it's been independent open-source developer Maximilian Luz that has been spearheading improvements for Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. With Linux 5.13 his latest work on better handling Microsoft Surface device detachment handling should land...

When you're scripting with Bash, sometimes you need to read data from or write data to a file. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Bash and other POSIX shells.

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