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Better Linux Gaming With Steam and Proton  Tom's Hardware

The Tegra DRM driver changes were sent out on Friday of the new material destined for Linux 5.16. Notable this time around is NVIDIA's NVDEC driver being included...

Sent in this morning were an urgent set of x86 updates for the Linux 5.15-rc5 kernel due out later today...

Red Hat's Platform Tools team is making it very easy to run the very bleeding edge, development version of the LLVM toolchain and Clang compiler on the current versions of Fedora...

Linux 5.15-rc5 x86 Changes Aim To Fix "Yet Another Hardware Trainwreck"  Phoronix

How to Install Etherpad Lite on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

IBM engineer Pratik Sampat published an early prototype of a CPU namespace interface for the Linux kernel. This CPU namespace was devised to address coherency issues with current means of viewing available CPU resources as well as addressing possible security issues stemming from understanding resource access/positioning on the system...

IBM Proposing A CPU Namespace For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Graphical Linux apps run out of the box on Windows 11, here's how - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruser

Intel has been preparing Xe HP bring-up for many months already including fundamental work around their discrete graphics/accelerator support for their Linux graphics driver stack going back quite a while. On the Xe HP front, Friday afternoon brought an important patch series posted for the first time: initial work around multi-tile support...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux Graphics Driver For Multi-Tile Hardware  Phoronix

Debian 11 "Bullseye" debuted back in August as the latest major release for this popular community Linux distribution. Today it's been succeeded by Debian 11.1...

Innovative technology is coming to change Linux in the cloud. It's open for investment now.  ZDNet

Now you can finally run Linux on Apple's M1 chipset  TechnoSports

AMD DisplayPort Thunderbolt Tunneling driver already available in latest Linux kernel patches, USB4 support finally coming in early 2022  Notebookcheck.net

'Git' Your Linux Skills Up to Snuff for Less Than $20  PCMag.com

Barring any last minute reservations it appears the initial "FUTEX2" work that is of much interest to Linux gamers enjoying Steam Play / Proton will find that kernel functionality in Linux 5.16...

KDE developers remain very busy squashing bugs ahead of the release of Plasma 5.23 that is also known as the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition...

Innovative technology is coming to change Linux in the cloud. It's open for investment now.  ZDNet

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