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Wine 6.18 has been popped as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that allows Windows applications and games to run under Linux and in turn what also powers Steam Play's Proton...

Google plans to bring Android's kernel closer to the Linux upstream  Android Police

Yesterday it was Epic Games confirming Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux and Wine/Proton ahead of the Steam Deck launch and today it's BattlEye confirming Proton / Steam Deck support...

IBM engineer Daniel Axtens presented at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference on the prospects of using the Rust programming language for creating modules for the GRUB2 boot-loader...

Android is shifting to an “upstream first” development model for new Linux kernel features  XDA Developers

How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 11  Tom's Hardware

Ubuntu Linux 21.10 'Impish Indri' Beta is here  BetaNews

Epic Games Brings Anti-Cheat Software to Linux and Mac  PCMag

Epic Games Brings Anti-Cheat Software to Linux and Mac  PCMag Middle East

Coreutils 9.0 is now available and it's a significant update to this collection of common open-source utilities found on effectively all Linux systems...

Microsoft joins grid decarbonization effort from Linux Foundation nonprofit  ZDNet

This Week In Security: Somebody's Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS  Hackaday

A few weeks ago I finally received the HiFive Unmatched from SiFive as their flagship RISC-V development board. As a reminder this is their mini-ITX development board that is powered by their U740 SoC and features 16GB of DDR4 system memory, one PCI Express x16 slot that can work with AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux, and other features. It's been a delight playing with this developer platform and enclosed are some early benchmarks as well showing off the U740 performance as well as how the Linux software support/performance has been evolving.

Google is bringing Android closer to the Linux kernel  Techradar

Google is bringing Android closer to the Linux kernel  TechRadar

Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem  Ars Technica

Cloud, Linux Top List of Open-Source Skills Desired by Companies  Dice Insights

Cloud, Linux Top List of Open-Source Skills Desired by Companies  Dice Insights

MidnightBSD 2.1 debuted this week as the latest version of one of the few desktop-focused BSD open-source operating system projects...

Canonical has released the final beta of next month's Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" release...