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Earlier this month Intel engineers posted their initial Linux kernel enablement around x86 User Interrupts with this feature premiering with Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" CPUs. As implied by the name, the User Interrupt functionality allows for interrupts to bypass the kernel for more efficient, low-latency, low-utilization interrupts being received by other user-space tasks. Intel talked more about User Interrupts this week at LPC2021...

While the OpenZFS 2.1 feature release has been available since July, for those still using the OpenZFS 2.0.x series and not yet prepared to make the jump to that big new release with dRAID and other changes, OpenZFS 2.0.6 was released this week...

Building off yesterday's Wine 6.18 development release is now the next Wine-Staging installment that has more than six hundred extra patches on top...

Another item is now crossed off the XWayland TODO list with OpenGL sRGB support wired up...

As an avid amateur musician, I've worked with many different software programs to create both simple and complex pieces. As my projects have grown in scope, I've used composition software ranging from basic engraving to MIDI-compatible notation to playback of multi-instrument works. Composers have their choice of proprietary software, but I wanted to prove that, regardless of the need, there is an open source tool that will more than satisfy them.

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ACENET Basics: Introduction to Linux  Gazette

Wine 6.18 has been popped as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that allows Windows applications and games to run under Linux and in turn what also powers Steam Play's Proton...

Google plans to bring Android's kernel closer to the Linux upstream  Android Police

Yesterday it was Epic Games confirming Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux and Wine/Proton ahead of the Steam Deck launch and today it's BattlEye confirming Proton / Steam Deck support...

IBM engineer Daniel Axtens presented at this week's Linux Plumbers Conference on the prospects of using the Rust programming language for creating modules for the GRUB2 boot-loader...

Android is shifting to an “upstream first” development model for new Linux kernel features  XDA Developers

How to Install Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 11  Tom's Hardware

Ubuntu Linux 21.10 'Impish Indri' Beta is here  BetaNews

Epic Games Brings Anti-Cheat Software to Linux and Mac  PCMag

Epic Games Brings Anti-Cheat Software to Linux and Mac  PCMag Middle East

Coreutils 9.0 is now available and it's a significant update to this collection of common open-source utilities found on effectively all Linux systems...

Microsoft joins grid decarbonization effort from Linux Foundation nonprofit  ZDNet

This Week In Security: Somebody's Watching, Microsoft + Linux, DDoS  Hackaday

A few weeks ago I finally received the HiFive Unmatched from SiFive as their flagship RISC-V development board. As a reminder this is their mini-ITX development board that is powered by their U740 SoC and features 16GB of DDR4 system memory, one PCI Express x16 slot that can work with AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux, and other features. It's been a delight playing with this developer platform and enclosed are some early benchmarks as well showing off the U740 performance as well as how the Linux software support/performance has been evolving.

Google is bringing Android closer to the Linux kernel  Techradar