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When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds  The Register

As expected Linus Torvalds promoted Linux 5.14 to stable in providing the latest features, hardware support, and other improvements ahead of the autumn 2021 Linux distribution releases...

The Linux hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem for the 5.15 cycle is already seeing the AMD SB-RMI driver and AMD Cezanne Zen 3 APU temperature monitoring while there was also some last-minute additions around AMD next-gen "Yellow Carp" temperature reporting and separately support for another water cooling pump...

While the Linux 5.15 merge window opening is imminent, merged today to net-next were the latest batch of wireless driver updates for this next kernel version. Notable to this batch of WiFi driver updates was the new Intel material...

How to Manage Disk Partitions in Linux With fdisk  MUO - MakeUseOf

Yet-To-Be-Released Intel "Bz" WiFi Chipset To Be Supported By Linux 5.15  Phoronix

Top 8 File Backup Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Near the beginning of the year was some rare work on Linux's floppy disk driver and -- a half-year later -- it was found out that not only do people with systems using floppy disks still move to newer kernels, but that work earlier in the year had regressed the Linux kernel's floppy disk handling. Now coming for Linux 5.15 is a fix...

How to SSH AWS ec2 Linux Instances remotely  H2S Media

Can You Get By With a Flatpak-Only Linux Desktop?  MUO - MakeUseOf

Cryptocurrency Mining Has Piqued Cybercriminals' Interest In Violating Linux, Trend Micro Research Finds  BollyInside

Use Rust Commands Instead Of Traditional Linux Commands With These 6 Rust Commands  BollyInside

In Linux kernel, AMD adds 17 new PCI IDs for AMD RDNA2 GPUs: Is an update on the way? - Linux News  BollyInside

If all goes according to plan the Linux 5.14 kernel will be released as stable today. Linux 5.14 has many new features but there is also a lot of work slated for the next cycle, Linux 5.15. Here's a look...

How to mount and unmount ISO files in Linux  BollyInside

The eight most productive Linux programs - Linux News  BollyInside

AMD adds 17 new PCI Ids for AMD RDNA2 GPUs in Linux Kernel: A refresh incoming?  TechnoSports

ClamAV is a virus scanner for Rocky Linux 8 that can be installed  BollyInside

The Chrome/Chromium web browser now has fully-enabled the Ozone/X11 platform support across both beta and stable channels...

Most Linux utilities just scroll text from the bottom of the screen. But what if you wanted to position text on the screen, such as for a game or a data display? That's where ncurses comes in.

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