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How to Check Your Laptop's Battery Health in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Released on Friday was a new version of the Hashcat open-source password recovery tool that now adds an AMD HIP back-end...

With the recent release of System76's Pop!_OS 21.04 if you are thinking about upgrading to this release from Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS or choosing between the two, here are some benchmarks from the AMD Ryzen Threadripper powered System76 Thelio Major.

One year ago was the surprise of Paragon Software wanting to mainline their NTFS Linux kernel driver. The Paragon "NTFS3" kernel driver provides much better read/write support for Microsoft's NTFS file-system than what is available with other kernel or FUSE options for this file-system support on Linux. It looks like this driver might finally be mainlined soon...

5 Must-Have Open-Source Personal Finance Software for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Microsoft's Printing Nightmare Continues - Thurrott.com - Thurrott.com  Thurrott.com

AMD's PMC Linux driver with Linux 5.15 is expected to offer more debugging information for diagnosing S0ix power states behavior to analyze if an AMD SoC is hitting or not the desired low-power states...

AMD Pushes Improvements To Help Debug S0ix Power States On Linux  Phoronix

In between celebrating the fact that Valve's newly announced Steam Deck runs KDE Plasma when exiting the Steam confines, KDE developers had a very busy week with a number of different improvements to their open-source desktop...

6 Advanced Distributions for Expert Linux Users  It's FOSS

The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better.

In software engineering, waste can be expressed in a few ways:

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Get old Macs up and running with Linux: revive Apple computers with Manjaro Linux  Market Research Telecast

Red Hat renews FIPS 140-2 security validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2  Help Net Security

Steam Deck is a Linux desktop trojan horse  BetaNews

Linux Variant of HelloKitty Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi Servers  Threatpost

Linux Foundation starts open-source diversity, equity, and inclusion survey  ZDNet

Steam Deck: How Proton will make your Steam games shine on Valve’s handheld  Tom's Guide

Windows The Most Popular OS For Development Followed By Linux And macOS  Fossbytes

The Open 3D Engine spun out of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine has been seeing progress on Vulkan 1.2 API work as well as Linux porting at large, including the bringing up of the game engine's editor on Linux...

How to Install Different Browsers on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf