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How to Create Command Shortcuts with Aliases in Linux  Tom's Hardware

If you have noticed grep regressing performance-wise in recent releases, you may want to upgrade to GNU Grep 3.7 released this weekend as it fixes a nasty performance regression...

OpenRazer 3.1 is now available as the newest version of this open-source, third-party solution for enabling Razer devices under Linux...

Computers are good at automation, but not everyone knows how to make automation work. It's a real luxury, though, to be able to schedule a task for a computer at a specific time and then forget about it. Maybe you have a file to upload or download at a specific time, or you need to process a batch of files that don't yet exist but are guaranteed to exist by a certain time or a setting that needs monitoring, or maybe you just need a friendly reminder to pick up bread and butter on the way home from work.

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Russian ArmSoC now ships on Russian PCs running Russian Linux • The Register  Illinoisnewstoday.com

Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed  Phoronix

Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Debian 11 'Bullseye' Linux distro is here  BetaNews

Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology  Help Net Security

Debian 11 "Bullseye" has been officially released now after just over two years in development...

3D Printed Smart Glasses Put Linux In Your Face  Hackaday

Besides the very successful Godot game engine and the up and coming O3DE, Ogre continues progressing as another useful open-source game engine. Out this weekend is Ogre 13.0 as the project switches up its versioning scheme...

Linux Operating System Market Growth Due to COVID-19 Spread | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint - The Market Writeuo  The Market Writeuo

A new status report has been published by the developers of "Asahi Linux" that are continuing to work on providing Linux support for the Apple Silicon initially with the M1 SoC...

Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues  Phoronix

One of the features that has come together nicely for Linux on laptops in recent months has been the platform profile support around the ACPI specification with support from multiple laptop vendors for allowing users to control their power/performance preference based on various system profile configurations. A patch is pending for newer ASUS laptops to enjoy this platform profile control under Linux...

In addition to Debian GNU/Linux 11 set for release today, Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 has been released as the unofficial port of Debian to the GNU Hurd micro-kernel...

Easy way to install Chrome Browser on Elementary OS 6 Odin  H2S Media

Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" is due for release today and the Debian developers involved are indeed putting the final touches on this next major Debian GNU/Linux distribution release...

Debian 11 Is Releasing This Weekend With Many Improvements  Phoronix