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The Khronos Group used the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL 2021) to release OpenCL 3.0.7 as the latest OpenCL 3 revision that brings with it some new extensions...

OpenCL 3.0.7 Released With New Extensions  Phoronix

How to install Kitematic docker manager on CentOS 7/8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

There are few Linux users who don't remember the first time they discovered you could boot a computer and run Linux on it without ever actually installing it. Sure, many users are aware that you can boot a computer to an operating system installer, but with Linux it's different: there doesn't need to be an install at all! Your computer doesn't even need to have a hard drive in it. You can run Linux for months or even years off of a USB drive.

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Global Linux Operating System Market 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  SoccerNurds

Freshly re-based against yesterday's Linux 5.12 kernel, GNU Linux-Libre 5.12-gnu is now available as the latest version of this GNU cleansed kernel now carrying a codename of "Freedo Misses Tasha"...

University of Minnesota security researchers apologize for deliberately buggy Linux patches  ZDNet

Flatpak 1.11.1 is out this morning as the first development step towards the eventual Flatpak 1.12 stable release...

An Open-Source App to Control All Your RGB Lighting Settings  It's FOSS

Linux Software Market 2021-2026 Revenue Analysis, Growth rate, Recent Development and Top Players – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Version 1.6 of FWUPD is now available for firmware updating of motherboard BIOS and other device firmware under Linux...

FWUPD 1.6 Released For Latest Linux Firmware Updating Capabilities  Phoronix

The "x86/misc" pull request this morning for the newly-opened Linux 5.13 merge window adds the new KCPUID utility contributed by Intel...

Linux 5.13 Adding KCPUID For Helping To Bring-Up New x86 CPUs  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Size Report, Trend, COVID19 Impact, Industry Outlook, Derive Growth, Share, Revenue Forecast to 2027 – Clark County Blog  Clark County Blog

Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.12 is a small release but the next one is going to be bigger  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds hints at massive Linux update coming soon  TechRadar

Vulkan 1.2.177 is out today as the newest version of the Vulkan specification and this time around introduces one new extension that aims to help OpenGL translation layers and potentially other implementations atop this graphics API...

Vulkan 1.2.177 Released To Help Graphics Translation Layers  Phoronix

Following yesterday's Linux 5.12 release the merge window for Linux 5.13 is officially open. One of the first pull requests of this new merge window is for the platform-drivers-x86 updates, which primarily encompass Intel/AMD Linux laptop driver support improvements and other related x86 platform drivers...