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The VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver is looking to be upstreamed in Mesa in allowing Vulkan support for virtualized guests that in turn is handled by the host's Vulkan driver/hardware...

8 Steps For Securing Your Linux Server | Avast  Security Boulevard

AMD Instinct MI100 "Arcturus" Bits Added To Linux-Firmware.Git  Phoronix

While AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have been working publicly on the "Acturus" GPU support going back to 2019 that was then introduced last year in the form of the Instinct MI100, finally today has the necessary binary firmware been upstreamed into linux-firmware.git for enabling the rest of the open-source AMD Linux driver stack...

Warzone 2100, the real-time strategy/tactics game that was originally released in 1999 as a proprietary commercial game only to then be made open-source several years later, is out this week with its version 4.0 milestone...

Linux 101: The different types of sudo and su  TechRepublic

news digest: AsyncAPI joins Linux Foundation, LG closes mobile phone business, and Python 3.9.4 and 3.8.9 - SD Times  SDTimes.com

Approved at the start of the year was the CentOS Hyperscaler special interest group that is working to cater CentOS Stream so it's more suitable by the likes of Facebook and Twitter along with other modern enterprises. The SIG just issued their Q1'2021 report about what they accomplished in this first quarter of being an approved effort and what work remains on the table...

How Linux users can enable sync service in Microsoft Edge  TechRepublic

Arch Linux Adds an Easy-to-Use Guided Installer  TechNadu

Linux Operating System Market | Global Market Growth Analysis, Development Status, Research Report, Regional Overview, Trends Forecast by 2026  SoccerNurds

For those that managed to get their hands on Radeon RX 6000 series hardware and are habitual Mesa Git users, the newest Mesa 21.1-devel code for RADV has a new knob for performance testing...

Arch Linux looks to make installation nice and simple  TechRadar

Arch Linux looks to make installation nice and simple  TechRadar

The Intel "Crocus" Gallium3D driver in development for supporting old Intel i965 IGPs through Haswell continues making progress by the upstream, open-source Mesa3D community for hopefully one day replacing Intel's classic "i965" Mesa driver...

Linaro continues leading the effort on a Wireless WAN (WWAN) subsystem/framework for the Linux kernel...

The Linux Kernel Continues Crafting A WWAN Subsystem  Phoronix

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How to view and monitor log files in Linux  TechRepublic