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Valve and their partners at CodeWeavers have put out a release candidate for Proton 5.13-6 as the latest version of their Wine-based software for running Windows games on Linux via Steam Play...

Proton 5.13-6 RC Continues With More Cyberpunk 2077 Fixes For Linux  Phoronix

The CentOS Hyperscale effort is sounding quite promising for those riding CentOS Stream and wanting fresher packages in some instances and alternative defaults as a blend of CentOS Stream, Fedora / EPEL, and its own forthcoming package repositories...

CentOS Hyperscaler Is Sounding Quite Promising For The Modern Enterprise  Phoronix

[2021] Linux CKA Dumps Free Updates Offered by DumpsSchool - Press Release  Digital Journal

CloudLinux Expands Extended Lifecycle Support Beyond CentOS  Data Center Knowledge

RADV+ACO Look To Your Help For Improving The Vulkan Driver & Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

RADV is a Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs that is part of the Mesa project and installed on most Linux distros out of the box. Our goal is to deliver a stable and performant driver to Linux gamers, and recently we've made our own shader compiler called ACO. To create the best possible experience, we'd like to take it a step further and ask our users for some testing and feedback.

Free, Live Kernel Patching for the Raspberry Pi Now Available  StreetInsider.com

SYCL as the single-source C++-based programming model for heterogeneous parallel programming is now revised to the SYCL 2020 specification released today by The Khronos Group...

Free, Live Kernel Patching for the Raspberry Pi Now Available  Business Wire

Global Linux Operating System Market: Growth will Accelerate at CAGR value, SWOT Analysis and EBITA Analysis |  openPR

While it was a sad blow when PC-BSD/TrueOS stopped pursuing its desktop ambitions as what was arguably the leading BSD desktop operating system out there with a nice end-user experience, since then we have seen efforts like MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, and others fill the avoid with continuing to enhance the out-of-the-box BSD desktop system. A new entrant that is quite interesting is helloSystem that aims to be a "macOS of BSDs" for a polished desktop experience...

Kali Linux vs. Ubuntu  Programming Insider

Junior DevOps Engineer Linux - Cyber Security  Gi Media

Last month was the delightful news that Ubuntu 21.04 is aiming to use Wayland by default for non-NVIDIA systems on the GNOME desktop rather than the X.Org session. While there is two months to go until the Ubuntu 21.04 release, there still is more work ahead in making that shift a reality...

Exfatprogs 1.1 have been released as the open-source, user-space utilities around the Linux/Android exFAT file-system support maintained by Samsung...

Linux's Exfatprogs 1.1 Released To Fsck The Boot Region, Labeling Support  Phoronix

Random identity generation in Linux  Network World

How to Add Fingerprint Login in Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions  It's FOSS