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While Linux 5.15 has many new features and improvements, one of the patch series we have been eager to see land is the work introducing the new FUTEX2 system call. FUTEX2 can help improve the performance of newer Windows games running on Linux via Wine / Steam Play's Proton by better matching the Windows kernel behavior, but while it didn't land for Linux 5.15, at least a new version of the patches were posted...

PS4 Emulator for Linux Now Plays Hundreds of Games  Tom's Hardware

PS4 Emulator for Linux Now Plays Hundreds of Games  Tom's Hardware

2 Ways to install Flutter on Ubuntu 20.04 |18.04 | 21.04 Linux  H2S Media

How to utilize openssl in Linux to check SSL certificate details  TechRepublic

After last month landing the Zink sub-allocator code for improved performance and also enabling OpenGL ES 3.2 support for Zink, lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz at Valve has been spending time this month working to get more games running on this OpenGL-over-Vulkan Mesa driver...

Question on setting up Linux on a chromebook - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Daily Deal: The Complete 2021 Learn Linux Bundle  Techdirt

GDB 11.1 is now available as the latest feature update to the GNU Debugger...

Linux 101: What are zombie processes?  TechRepublic

Linux 101: What are zombie processes?  TechRepublic

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide  The Hacker News

Hacker-made Linux Cobalt Strike beacon used in ongoing attacks  BleepingComputer

Linux 5.15 Delivers Many Features With New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, New Hardware  Phoronix

Feature development is over on the Linux 5.15 kernel with Linux 5.15-rc1 being issued. It's now on to testing and bug fixing over the next two months before the kernel is christened as stable. Here is our original Linux 5.15 feature overview about all of the big changes in this next kernel version.

Revolt: An Open-Source Alternative to Discord  It's FOSS

While Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS shipped one year ago as the last planned point release to the "Bionic Beaver", an emergency issue is leading to Ubuntu 18.04.6 now being prepared...

Of all the great stuff for AMD in Linux 5.15, one of the patches still not having yet been mainlined is the control support around Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) with Zen 3 processors. It's been six months since AMD published their security whitepaper around PSF while the Linux patch has yet to be mainlined while now it seems will be updated for a reduced focus on KVM usage...

How you can Add or Create a New Superuser on Linux 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

Microsoft ‘accelerates’ Flatcar Container Linux  ComputerWeekly.com