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LunarG Is Hiring Another Graphics Driver Engineer  Phoronix

With it appearing all the essentials are in place for IBM POWER10 Linux support, in recent days we have seen an uptick in patches from IBM engineers working on POWER10 performance optimizations...

MYS-8MMX i.MX 8M Mini SBC runs Yocto 3.0 Linux or Ubuntu 18.04  CNX Software

Playing adventure games has always been a big part of my experience with computers. From the earliest text-based adventure games to 2D pixel art, full-motion video, and 3D games, the adventure game genre has provided me with a lot of fond memories.

Sometimes I want to revisit those old games, but many were released before Linux was even a thing, so how do I go about replaying those games? I use ScummVM, which is honestly one of my favorite open source projects.

What is ScummVM

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The drama in kernel land this week was University of Minnesota being banned from Linux kernel development over research they previously carried out looking at "hypocrite commits" and the possibility of intentionally introducing vulnerabilities (such as use-after-free bugs) into the kernel source tree. This weekend those researchers involved published an open letter to the Linux kernel community...

University of Minnesota Linux "Hypocrite Commit" Researchers Publish Open Letter  Phoronix

How to install WHM Cpanel on AlmaLinux 8 Server - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux  The Hacker News

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux  Internet

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364 Lets You Run Linux GUI Applications  MUO - MakeUseOf

After it was pushed back last week due to blocker bugs, on Friday it was determined that Fedora 34 is now in proper shape to officially ship next week...

Fedora 34 To Release Next Week As A Very Exciting Update  Phoronix

New cryptomining malware builds an army of Windows, Linux bots  BleepingComputer

Queued this week into perf/core ahead of the imminent Linux 5.13 merge window is perf subsystem bring-up for Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processors...

Linux 5.13 To Add Perf Support For Intel Alder Lake  Phoronix

Sony Linux engineer Peter Enderborg has proposed a soft watchdog for the Linux kernel to carry out pre-defined tasks in certain situations but not being like hardware watchdogs that would reboot the system if a problem crops up...

Sony Proposes A New Soft Watchdog For Linux  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Size By Forecast 2025 Analysis & Key Players – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  Clark County Blog

KDE developers continue polishing up their Wayland support and making other improvements to their desktop stack...

There are many reasons to choose Linux for your desktop operating system. In Why everyone should choose Linux, Opensource.com's Seth Kenlon highlighted many of the best reasons to select Linux and provided lots of ways for people to get started with the operating system.

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