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Linux 101: Renaming files and folders  TechRepublic

With the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa on a nice upward trajectory with most recently now having the backing of a Valve contract developer and a focus on getting the backlog of patches to this Gallium3D code upstreamed, here are some fresh benchmarks looking at where the performance currently stands when using Zink atop the RADV Vulkan driver compared to using the native RadeonSI driver with this round of testing from a Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.

Red Hat's Disruption of CentOS Unleashes Storm of Dissent  EnterpriseAI

Microsoft Previews Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows  Redmondmag.com

Linux 101: Listing files and folders within a directory  TechRepublic

Linux 101: How to create a directory from the command line  TechRepublic

The open-source/Linux Apple M1 work continues to be quite busy this week... The latest is Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been working on reverse-engineering the M1 graphics processor has been able to write some early and primitive code for rendering a triangle...

DreamBus Botnet Targets Linux Systems  GovInfoSecurity.com

DreamBus Botnet Targets Linux Systems  BankInfoSecurity.com

MX Linux Now Has a Raspberry Pi Edition You Can Try Right Now  LXer

Linux in Healthcare - Cutting Costs & Adding Safety  Linux Journal

Alex Gosselin  Linux Journal

How To Create a Web App in Linux Mint  MakeUseOf

It's taken nearly twenty five years but the mainline Linux kernel this year will be able to boot on the Nintendo 64 game console... It's looking like the Nintendo 64 support will be merged with the upcoming Linux 5.12 kernel...

Hazardous fresh malware marks unpatched Linux machines  Insider Advantage Georgia

Ubuntu Linux Now Runs On Apple M1 Silicon Macs, What To Expect And How To Prepare  Hot Hardware

New feature material for Linux 5.12 continues getting ready ahead of the merge window opening in February to formally kick off the cycle...

More Intel Graphics Work In Linux 5.12: Gen7 Improvements, Faster Suspend/Resume  Phoronix

How to Install Signal Desktop on Linux  How-To Geek

In addition to Oracle's GraalVM 21.0 being released this week, the Eclipse Foundation has released OpenJ9 v0.24 as the newest feature release for their high performance JVM...