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How to Back Up and Restore Your Linux System Using the Rsync Utility  Security Boulevard

It's been nearly one year since NVIDIA's last update to Quake II RTX as their port of Quake II to using Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for RTX path-traced global illumination. Fortunately, that changed today as they are out with a big update in the form of Quake II RTX v1.6...

The Pros and Cons of Using Windows Subsystem for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

While the Linux 5.17 merge window is closing this weekend with the debut of 5.17-rc1, managing to come in at the last minute are a few more additions for Intel's next-generation Raptor Lake processors...

TuxCare Providing Critical Security Patches for ULA Rocket Launch for U.S. Space Force  Business Wire

OSS News: SysJoker Backdoor, Linux Firmware, LibreOffice Improves, Distro Hopping Choices  LinuxInsider.com

SiFive's HiFive Unmatched is the best, readily available RISC-V developer board at the moment with enough horsepower for modest development/porting work and continues seeing improvements with the mainline Linux kernel. But availability on HiFive Unmatched is beginning to dry up and SiFive isn't planning on any further production runs as it begins focusing on the board's successor...

SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board  Phoronix

MINISFORUM launches AMD Ryzen-powered mini desktop PC running Manjaro Linux  BetaNews

The 5 Best Pomodoro Apps to Maximize Your Productivity on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Landing today for Mesa 22.0 was a fix for Vulkan ray-tracing with the RADV driver in the RDNA Wave32 shader mode and then switching to Wave32 by default for ray-tracing on RDNA/RDNA2 GPUs...

MINISFORUM UM700 mini PC now available with Manjaro Linux (or Windows 10 Pro)  Liliputing

It’s 2022—Isn’t It Time You Started Coding in Delphi?  MakeUseOf

1. Red Hat, Ubuntu issue warnings over Linux kernel vulnerability  IT World Canada
2. Nasty Linux kernel bug found and fixed  ZDNet
3. Serious Security: Linux full-disk encryption bug fixed – patch now!  Naked Security
4. Linux admins urged to patch full-disk encryption bug that allows decryption without a password  www.computing.co.uk
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Red Hat, Ubuntu issue warnings over Linux kernel vulnerability  IT World Canada

Looking At The New "Critical" Security Firmware Update Hitting Systems - Delivers New Intel Microcode  Phoronix

Earlier this week the Linux Vendor Firmware Service began surging with activity following many new system firmware files being uploaded for what appears to be a "high severity upcoming security issue" but currently undisclosed. That issue hasn't been made public yet, but after poking around it is updating the Intel CPU microcode.

AMD 5nm Zen 4 & Zen 4C Cores For Next-Gen EPYC & Ryzen CPUs Receive Improved Support In Linux 5.17 EDAC Driver  Wccftech

Nasty Linux kernel bug found and fixed  ZDNet

After recently carrying out the Core i5 12400 Linux benchmarks against other modern processors, for curiosity I ran some benchmarks on some older hardware going back to AMD Kaveri and Intel Sandy Bridge for a look at how the modern Ubuntu performance compares across all those systems...