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Posted last year for introduction in the GCC 11 stable compiler released earlier this year was the initial Alder Lake "alderlake" target. Now that Intel 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors are officially out, Intel engineers have updated their Alder Lake tuning for the GNU Compiler Collection to yield more efficient performance with GCC 12 due out in Q2'2022...

How to completely remove a Linux distro from WSL  Windows Central

Guide: Install BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine  BollyInside

How to Mount Bitlocker Encrypted Windows Partition on Linux  It's FOSS

Running the past two days was the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. One of the most interesting presentations from this virtual event was on the status of DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the OpenZFS file-system and the performance boost it can offer in relevant areas...

While there is already LLVMpipe Gallium3D for software acceleration of OpenGL on CPUs within Mesa, if wanting to increase the layers of abstraction you could also use Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan and by way of Lavapipe have that software accelerated on the CPU. With Mesa 22.0-devel, that route of Zink on CPUs is now faster...

Microsoft goes after Chromebooks with Windows 11 SE and the $249 Surface Laptop SE - comments  GSMArena.com

Merged last week into the Linux 5.16 kernel is improved Retpoline "return trampoline" code...

Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon  The Register

Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon  The Register

14 New Security Flaws Found in BusyBox Linux Utility for Embedded Devices  Internet

14 New Security Flaws Found in BusyBox Linux Utility for Embedded Devices  The Hacker News

Are you looking for a way to quickly copy files from your iPhone or Android mobile device to your Linux computer or from your Linux computer to your devices? I recently discovered an open source application that's easy to install and makes transferring files as simple as a QR code.

The qrcp project provides a command that generates a QR code in your terminal that allows you to send or receive files to your computer over the network.

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Linux finally has an impressive cloud-like OS in Ubuntu Web  TechRepublic

Linux finally has an impressive cloud-like OS in Ubuntu Web  TechRepublic

Canonical's new Multipass 1.8 runs Ubuntu Linux in a VM on M1 Macs  iMore

Knative is an open source project based on the Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and managing serverless workloads that run in the cloud, on-premises, or in a third-party data center. Google originally started it with contributions from more than 50 companies.

Knative allows you to build modern applications which are container-based and source-code-oriented.

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How to utilize Microsoft Teams on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android  BollyInside

Linux patching — the why and the how  Tahawul Tech

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