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My father has always been fond of model trains, and I remember watching him building a track around the Christmas tree when I was young. When Lego train sets were released, he and I transitioned to them for their convenience and inherent extensibility. We built and operated Lego trains and monorail tracks over the course of many years. I've often imagined a possible future in which I have a garage or a basement dedicated to miniature landscapes and electric whistling trains.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI – OSnews  OS News

CloudLinux Adds TuxCare Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025  Data Center Knowledge

Exclusive: how to enable Vulkan in Crostini on your Chromebook right now  Chrome Unboxed

Wine 6.17 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release as we move closer towards the Wine 7.0 release around the start of the new year...

As CentOS Linux Loses Support Dec. 31, CloudLinux TuxCare Moves In to Help CentOS Users  EnterpriseAI

How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Linux Using fdupes  MUO - MakeUseOf

While last week was the main "char/misc" pull request for the Linux 5.15 merge window, the Habana Labs driver changes were previously reverted from there due to opposition from the upstream kernel developers in the Direct Rendering Manager space. The concerning patches around DMA-BUF have now been removed and a new pull request submitted with updates to this AI driver for Linux 5.15...

The most popular AMD Ryzen CPUs are finally getting optimized Linux support  Techradar

The most popular AMD Ryzen CPUs are finally getting optimized Linux support  TechRadar

Geekbench Listings Reveal Windows' Subsystem for Linux  OnMSFT.com

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Second Edition ($24.99 Value) - free download  Neowin

With less than one month out from the official release of Microsoft Windows 11, I was curious to run some fresh benchmarks of the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build against Windows 10 21H1 to see how the performance is looking. Of course, also to see how Windows 11 is shaping up against Ubuntu 21.10 also due for release in October.

Moving Forward After CentOS 8 EOL  The Hacker News

Moving Forward After CentOS 8 EOL  Internet

Intel-owned Habana Labs now has the most open software stack among AI accelerators! While Habana Labs has long provided an open-source, upstream kernel driver for their Gaudi AI training and Goya AI inference accelerators, the user-space portions including their code compiler and run-time library have been closed-source. This has been a thorn for upstream kernel developers and their standards, but now Habana Labs has open-sourced their user-space components too...

Last week a number of patches were merged in the quest to provide the kernel with comprehensive compile-time and run-time detection of buffer overflows. Another patch series was sent out today while still for this cycle they are expected to enable the compiler warnings around array-bounds and zero-length-bounds...

How to Set JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu Linux Correctly  It's FOSS

3 Ways to install Slack Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)  H2S Media

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has made considerable strides in increasing its presence in the open source world lately. RIT's Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture minor is the first of its kind in academia. For example, its open source programs office, Open @ RIT, has begun helping RIT faculty and staff fellows build and maintain communities for their open source projects.

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