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Intel Exploring CPU+GPU Synchronized Priority Scheduling For Linux  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 5.15 adding a new AMD audio driver for "Van Gogh" APUs such as found in the forthcoming Steam Deck, AMD's open-source Linux driver engineers have also been working on other audio improvements -- this time on the Chromebook front...

The Soul of the Movement: 30 Years of Linux (Part 1)  Marketscreener.com

How To Pick a Linux Distribution  Linux Journal

Windows 11 WSL 2 is almost as quick as running Linux natively  TechRadar

Intel has some new announcements around their neuromorphic computing research...

Linux kernel developers have been working tirelessly to squeeze more performance out of IO_uring and the block / I/O code in general. IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe who also serves as the Linux block subsystem's maintainer (among other roles and major contributions over the years) has used his system as a baseline for evaluating such kernel improvements. He's now moved to using AMD Zen 3 while sticking to Intel Optane storage and is seeing a mighty speed boost out of AMD's latest processors...

Unkown Linux Comp Had My Passwords? Trojan, Keylogger, or Network Hacked? - Virus, Trojan, Spyware, and Malware Removal Help  BleepingComputer

PostgreSQL 14.0 is now officially available as the latest version of this widely-used, open-source SQL server...

RansomExx ransomware Linux encryptor may damage victims' files  BleepingComputer

Syxsense Announces Powerful Automation, Including Patch Rollback, to its Comprehensive Linux Management Solution  PRNewswire

Google's work on the VirtIO DRM kernel driver around the notion of "context types" and being able to initialize different types of contexts is set to be merged for Linux 5.16 in opening up more use-cases for this driver that is an important part of the open-source virtualization graphics stack for graphics...

Assess and Secure Your Linux Footprint – Now!  Infosecurity Magazine

Open-source Allwinner V3 ISP driver to enable blob-free camera support in mainline Linux  CNX Software

Qt 6.2 LTS is out today as the first long-term support release in the Qt6 series and also with all of the major modules now ported over from Qt5 in aiming to make this a suitable point to transition from Qt 5.15 LTS...

Thinking of making the switch from Windows? Get 'Linux For Dummies, 10th Edition' ($21 value) FREE for a limited time  BetaNews

AMD has pushed out one more code drop of their AMDVLK official open-source Vulkan driver before ending out the quarter...

From our Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux performance preview earlier this week, one of the questions a number of readers were wondering about and a question I also still had open was on the Altra Max pricing... I've now received the current price list and actually comes in much lower than expected for a 128-core CPU in 2021...

How to install ZOOM client on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  H2S Media

If you've ever tried writing YAML, you may have been initially pleased with how apparently easy it looks. At first glance, the YAML that's often used for configuration files, Ansible playbooks, and flat-file databases looks more or less as intuitive as a shopping list. However, there's a lot of nuance in YAML's structure, and it conceals a dangerous secret: YAML is actually a highly precise, structured, and surprisingly strict language. The good news is that you only need to understand two things to know how YAML works.

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