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Released on Friday was Cloud-Hypervisor 0.14, the Intel-led open-source effort creating a Rust-based and cloud-focused multi-platform hypervisor...

Do you really want Linux phones? – OSnews  OS News

[Noob question] Format for secondary hard drive compatible with both Linux/Win? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Wine 6.5 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot of this software for running Windows applications and games under Linux and macOS...

Lilbits: Cyberdecks, Chromebooks, Kindle jailbreaks, and Linux phones  Liliputing

Last week we noted how a kernel driver for NZXT's Kraken AIO liquid cooling devices was under review for the mainline kernel. Shortly after that point the driver did get successfully picked up for hwmon-next and thus should be appearing in the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle...

NZXT Kraken Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 5.13  Phoronix

Samsung 980 NVMe SSD Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Earlier this month Samsung announced the 980 (non-PRO) NVMe solid-state driver offering a combination of speed and affordability for consumers. Many Linux readers have been curious about this Samsung 980 DRAM-less SSD so here are some initial benchmarks of it. Overall, it's been working out well under Linux.

10 Best Linux distro based on Ubuntu for laptops or PC 2021 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to install the NoSQL database server MongoDB on Linux  TechRepublic

How to Download and Install Spotify on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Download and Install Spotify on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Two fixes were queued this week into the Linux kernel's power management "linux-next" branch that could help improve the power management behavior for some devices as up to now the Linux kernel was not properly following the ACPI specification...

Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources  Phoronix

Linux 5.13 To Fix Its Handling Of Unused ACPI Power Resources  Phoronix

Microsoft Edge 91 will be the first to support syncing on Linux  Ghacks Technology News

A small but measurable and seemingly widespread performance optimization is currently being buttoned up for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa to benefit latest-generation Gen12/Xe Graphics...

For those running Linux MD RAID10 arrays you may have found the performance around discard requests such as when running MKFS and FSTRIM operations to be rather slow... Well, with Linux 5.13 it will be lightning fast...

Linux 5.13 To Bring A Huge Speed-Up For MD RAID10 DISCARD Handling  Phoronix