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Longtime Mesa developer Karol Herbst who has worked extensively on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver as well as the OpenCL/compute stack while being employed by Red Hat is now toying with the idea of Rust code inside Mesa...

The Best Linux Gaming Laptop? Juno Neptune 15 Review  Forbes

The Best Linux Gaming Laptop? Juno Neptune 15 Review  Forbes

Hackers Alter Cobalt Strike Beacon to Target Linux Environments | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

The unplanned Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS release is available today that was made on short notice for addressing unbootable media with Ubuntu 18.04.5...

1. 2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop  PCMag
2. How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag AU
3. How to Run Android Apps in Linux Without an Emulator  Beebom
4. 2021 Is the Year of Linux on Desktop — Here's Why  Flipboard
5. Someone Made Ubuntu Look Just Like Windows 11  Tom's Hardware
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2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop  PCMag

Researchers Find Malware Hiding in Windows Subsystem for Linux  Tom's Hardware

Azure Linux admins urged to patch four zero-day OMI vulnerabilities  IT World Canada

Pay What You Want and get this Linux eBook Bundle by Packt  Neowin

Along with bringing up DG2/Alchemist graphics card support on Linux, Intel engineers have been working to square away their support for the DG1 developer graphics card. This week thanks to XDC2021 is a fresh status update about what is working with this initial Intel graphics card on their open-source driver and what remains in the works...

The Current State Of Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux: Almost "Fully Functional"  Phoronix

The Current State Of Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux: Almost "Fully Functional"  Phoronix

As covered several times going back to the end of last year, ACPI Platform Profile support has materialized in recent versions of the Linux kernel for the core infrastructure and implementations that work with the latest laptops from the likes of Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, and HP. This platform profile support is becoming increasingly important with expressing your power/cooling/performance preference so that your laptop behaves as one would expect...

How to Install Linux on Your Chromebook  PCMag

Microsoft asks Azure Linux admins to manually patch OMIGOD bugs  BleepingComputer

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) in conjunction with FWUPD for offering easy-to-deploy firmware updates on Linux continues its meteoric rise...

Malware attacks Windows machines through Windows Subsystem for Linux for the first time  TechRadar

New Malware Targets Windows Subsystem for Linux to Evade Detection  The Hacker News

KWinFT as a fork of KDE's KWin X11/Wayland compositor code continues making progress on driving fundamental display improvements and ironing out the Wayland support...