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Best Windows Apps Alternatives For Linux: Switching Made Easier!  Fossbytes

Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched  The Register

Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux kernel patched  The Register

HW News - Dell Class Action Lawsuit, NVIDIA DLSS on Linux, AMD x Samsung GPUs  GamersNexus

Old Motorola 68000 Systems Can Finally Move Away From Linux's Deprecated IDE Code  Phoronix

Earlier this year was talk of Linux finally removing its legacy IDE subsystem that has been deprecated for years in favor of just maintaining the still-supported libata code for IDE support. The libata path is much better supported and matured for nearly two decades, but one of the holdouts was some Motorola 68000 series hardware -- like early Macintosh computers -- not being supported outside of the legacy context. That is finally set to change with Linux 5.14 so in turn the legacy IDE code will likely be able to be removed soon...

Linus Torvalds tells mailing list poster to “SHUT THE HELL UP” for saying COVID-19 vaccines create “new humanoid race”  The Register

Linus Torvalds is known primarily in the past for his colorful scripture on the Linux kernel mailing list while today he does have a passionate and important read on the LKML around vaccinations for COVID-19...

Linus Torvalds Encourages Kernel Developers & Everyone To Get Vaccinated  Phoronix

I just installed Linux Mint on my 4 yr old laptop  Thurrott.com

Toradex extends Torizon as DevOps platform for IoT Linux devices  Thurrott.com

Back in March during the announcement of Intel Foundry Services it was mentioned that SiFive and Intel were working together to allow RISC-V chips to be fabbed within Intel's facilities. Additionally, Intel Capital previously invested in SiFive during prior funding rounds. Now it turns out Intel is reportedly positioning to potentially acquire SiFive...

What does it mean when people say Mac OS is Linux based?  Thurrott.com

Embedded Board Farm service enables remote testing and development  LinuxGizmos.com

NVIDIA driver 470 for Linux to include support for async reprojection - Thurrott.com  Thurrott.com

Merged today into Mesa 21.2-devel is OpenGL ES 3.1 support being exposed for the Panfrost Gallium3D driver that provides open-source Arm Mali graphics...

Help me understand these unannounced, new Asus Chromebook CX1 laptops  About Chromebooks

Why Are Linux Commands So Short? The History of Linux Commands  MUO - MakeUseOf

What I learned about MS Edge and MS Open Source - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2021 Study By Regions, Type and Product Forecast 2026 – The Manomet Current  The Manomet Current