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We've been covering Genode OS for more than a decade now as this original open-source operating system "framework" and through this time they have managed to keep up with their routine feature releases. Out this week is Genode OS Framework 21.08 as they seek to make it easier porting device driver code to their platform...

One of the reasons so many DOS applications sported a text user interface (or TUI) is because it was so easy to do. The standard way to control console input and output (conio) was with the conio library for many C programmers. This is a de-facto standard library on DOS, which gained popularity as implemented by Borland's proprietary C compiler as conio.h.

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The System76 Pangolin Linux laptops now come with Ryzen 5000U APU options  Notebookcheck.net

Very large IBM mainframes/servers were taking 30+ minutes to boot the Linux kernel... No, just not for POST'ing the system with memory training and the like, but for loading Linux. Fortunately, with the Linux 5.15 kernel there is a set of scalability enhancements to allow these large IBM systems to be able to boot in around five minutes...

Linux 5.15 Addressing Scalability Issue That Caused Huge IBM Servers 30+ Minutes To Boot  Phoronix

SCO vs. Linux: IBM to pay $ 14.25 million  Market Research Telecast

CloudLinux offers CentOS 8 users a support lifeline  ZDNet

The staging updates for Linux 5.15 continue to have a lot of code churn including some drivers being promoted while one Realtek WiFi driver has been replaced...

How to install Git on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2  H2S Media

While Microsoft announced that Windows 11 will be formally released on 5 October, rolling out today is general availability on Windows Server 2022...

Habit Tracking on Linux Made Easy With These Two Apps  MUO - MakeUseOf

Armbian 21.08 for Arm boards ships with latest Linux 5.10 LTS  CNX Software

Download These 7 Cool Apps on Your Linux Machine to Make Life Easier  Linux Journal

At Jetson, small-edge AI machines run Linux  BollyInside

ZorinOS 16 is exactly what a Linux desktop distribution should be  TechRepublic

User-space file systems - now for Windows too! Linux Fu: User-space file systems, now also for Windows  BollyInside

8 Reasons Why You Should Run Linux in a Virtual Machine  MUO - MakeUseOf

Tachyum Boots Linux on Emulated FPGA-Based Prodigy Processor  Tom's Hardware

ZutaCore Joins the Open19 Foundation  HPCwire

Intel's i965 classic DRI driver is still the default within Mesa for i965 through Haswell generations of Intel integrated graphics, but the new "Crocus" Gallium3D driver has been added to the default driver build list so it's now at least building by default on x86/x86_64 systems and thus trivial after that to override...