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OSS+ELC show returns live with RISC-V, AI, Martian rovers, and 30 years of Tux  LinuxGizmos.com

The Debian release team has just announced their planned release date for Debian 11...

One of the low-level exciting kernel advancements being worked on at the moment is the new "folios" struct for improving Linux memory management. Tests by those involved found that in some conditions Linux kernel builds for example could be up to 7% faster. Given the recent folios v14 patches being published, I took them for a spin on an AMD EPYC server to see the impact on overall performance...

Use RDP on Linux mint to access Windows 11, 10 or 7 remotely  H2S Media

In addition to still working on moving from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 LTS for its base, Ubuntu Touch has also begun engaging in another important project: supporting Voice over LTE (VoLTE) with Ubuntu Touch...

Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

March Networks' New Linux-Based VMS Scales to Support 3000 IP Cameras on a Single Server  AiThority

Microsoft warns over this unusual malware that targets Windows and Linux  ZDNet

Systemd Vulnerability Could Risk Denial-of-Service Across Major Linux Systems  Cyber Security News

It's been a while since last looking at the performance of AMD's official "AMDVLK" open-source Linux Vulkan driver against that of the popular Mesa "RADV" Radeon Vulkan driver. But here are some fresh benchmarks for those interested while using the latest-generation Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card paired with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel across testing both Vulkan drivers.

How to install OBS Studio on Ubuntu 20.04 or Linux Mint 20.2  H2S Media

Command to search for Linux package updates  Floridanewstimes.com

Another weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches were submitted on Thursday for going into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window. This drm-misc-next material continues to represent core Direct Rendering Manager changes as well as alterations/additions to the smaller DRM drivers...

The latest BPF functionality set to appear with Linux 5.15 this autumn is timers support...

BPF Timers Support Set To Finally Appear With Linux 5.15  Phoronix

The Intel-led open-source Cloud Hypervisor project on Thursday issued its v17.0 release with more big improvements to this Rust-based VMM for running modern cloud workloads...

Kubernetes is software to help you run lots of containers in an organized way. Aside from providing tools to manage (or orchestrate) the containers you run, Kubernetes also helps those containers scale out as needed. With Kubernetes as your central control panel (or control plane), you need a way to manage Kubernetes, and the tool for that job is kubectl. The kubectl command lets you control, maintain, analyze, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters.

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Steam Deck: Linux gaming made easy  Market Research Telecast

While SquashFS wasn't mainlined in the Linux kernel until 2009, this compressed read-only file-system has been in development for twenty years now with initially being a set of out-of-tree kernel patches. SquashFS has been instrumental to many Linux distributions for their Live DVD/USB environments and other use-cases where needing a general purpose read-only file-system with low overhead...

Firewalld was started by Red Hat a decade ago for managing Linux firewall functionality with Netfilter. Ten and a half years after the first release, Firewalld 1.0 was released this afternoon...