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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

For some teachers, summer is here and thus a long (hopefully, relaxing) break. All the teachers I know are proud lifelong learners, though, and at the end of the summer break there's a new school year awaiting. To help you get the most out of your summer, but also satiate the real need to plan for the coming school year, we've collected some of our favorite concise guides to help you plan.

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A few months ago you may recall word of Crocus as a new Mesa Gallium3D driver for supporting Intel Gen7 Haswell graphics and older back through the i965 class hardware. That Gallium3D driver for the aging class of Intel graphics is nearing mainline Mesa with the work-in-progress merge request now pending as of this week...

Linux Software Market to Eyewitness Massive Growth by 2025 | Google, Microsoft, Amazon – The Shotcaller  The Shotcaller

Why You Should Learn Linux on Windows Subsystem for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

GNU Poke debuted earlier this year as a new GNU project providing an interactive editor and integrated, interactive programming language for dealing with binary data. Poke makes it easier to analyze binary data and their data structures as well as manipulating said binary data...

AMD announces FidelityFX as Open Source technology, but not its Linux support – Explica .co  Explica

Isn’t It Time to Switch to Linux? 12 Reasons to Abandon Windows  MUO - MakeUseOf

Nvidia collaborates with Valve to bring DLSS to Linux  TechnoSports

NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming For Linux 5.14 To Lower CPU Utilization, Better Latency  Phoronix

Adding to other networking changes queuing up for the upcoming Linux 5.14 cycle, NVMeTCP Offload has begun landing into "net-next" ahead of this next kernel merge window...

Here’s How To Install Linux In Windows With VMWare  DND

Due to not too old versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) possibly generating bad code with the "-O3" compiler optimization level and sometimes there not being performance benefits, Linus Torvalds remains against using this optimization flag when compiling the Linux kernel...

-O3 Compiler Optimization Level Still Deemed Too Unsafe For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

It's been a few releases since there has been much in the way of new additions to Wine-Staging worth talking about. This staging/experimental version of Wine has at some points carried 700+ patches over upstream Wine but with not many new patches introduced recently while the flow of patches from staging to upstream Wine continuing, at this point its down to "only" 571 patches. With today's Wine-Staging 6.10 there are also some new improvements incorporated into this build...

Next week will mark the release of the Plasma 5.22 desktop with its Wayland support now much more mature alongside various performance improvements and a variety of other enhancements. Plasma 5.22 is a big step forward while already some feature work is going into Plasma 5.23 and the next round of KDE application updates...

How to run LXC/LXD Containers on AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux 8  H2S Media