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Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next  Phoronix

Recently Ubuntu maker Canonical committed to using Google's Flutter user-interface toolkit as its "default choice" for their mobile and desktop applications moving forward. There is now an Ubuntu Blog post further detailing their interests in Flutter...

Canonical Continues To Talk Up Google's Flutter UI Toolkit  Phoronix

10 Best File Managers for Linux Power Users  MUO - MakeUseOf

Improve your Linux admin skills with these pro tips  TechRepublic

The release candidate of GNOME 40 is available today while the official GNOME 40.0 debut is still on track for next week...

Lead Linux Systems Administrator  IT-Online

How to Install the Chrome Browser on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following yesterday's release of the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card and the updated Radeon Software for Linux 20.50 driver, AMD has now released AMDVLK 2021.Q1.6 as their updated open-source Vulkan driver with Navi 22 / RX 6700 XT support...

While Intel upstreamed their forthcoming "Ice Lake" Xeon processor support long ago and has been focused on next-gen Sapphire Rapids enablement now for the better part of the past year, there still are some Ice Lake Xeon tweaks taking place here and there. This week a new bleeding-edge patch is in testing for tweaking the power/performance behavior of Ice Lake Xeon with Intel's idle driver...

Intel Tweaking Ice Lake Xeon Linux Power Management Code For Higher C6 Latency  Phoronix

Oracle Linux: How to install a LAMP stack  TechRepublic

How to migrate from CentOS 8 Linux to AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It looks like the Linux 5.13 kernel will be supporting an interesting RISC-V feature this spring...

RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"  Phoronix

It's been a while since hearing much about Wayland efforts on FreeBSD, but it turns out the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor can run on this BSD after a number of setup steps. However, the likes of KDE Plasma on Wayland still aren't working well outside of Linux...

NZXT Kraken Liquid Cooler Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

While NZXT does not provide any official Linux software support for their products like their all-in-one liquid coolers, the open-source community for years has worked to fill that void thanks to reverse-engineering. The latest work when it comes to the NZXT Kraken AIO liquid coolers is a proposed HWMON driver for the mainline kernel...

For 2021, Pi Day has come and gone, leaving fond memories and plenty of Raspberry Pi projects to try out. The days after any holiday can be hard when returning to work after high spirits and plenty of fun, and Pi Day is no exception. As we look into the face of the Ides of March, we can long for the joys of the previous, well, day. But fear no more, dear Pi Day celebrant! For today, we begin the long countdown to the next Pi Day!

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Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next  Phoronix