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The work going on for over a year to optionally flush the L1 data cache on context switching is going to try again for the next kernel cycle as an opt-in feature for select tasks. This was the feature rejected last year by Linus Torvalds that went on to "beyond stupid" and other concerns about it when it was trying to be mainlined originally...

Bitdefender Advances Cloud Workload Security for Containers and Linux Environments  Markets Insider

Red Hat announces second FIPS validation for Enterprise Linux 8  ITP.net

Bitdefender Advances Cloud Workload Security for Containers and Linux Environments  PRNewswire

Bitdefender Advances Cloud Workload Security for Containers and Linux Environments  Yahoo Finance

Linux Operating System market valuation to boom through 2025  Market Primes

While the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX performance is great on Linux once overcoming any laptop support quirks like with the ASUS ROG Strix G15 "AMD Advantage" laptop running into keyboard and WiFi issues on Linux depending upon the kernel version, how does the performance compare to Microsoft Windows 10? Here are some benchmarks of that ROG Strix G15 AMD laptop under Windows 10 as shipped by ASUS against Ubuntu 21.04 when upgraded to the Linux 5.13 stable kernel.

Steam Deck killed any need for A Total War Saga: Troy's Linux port  Rock Paper Shotgun

JingPad A1 Linux tablet hands on demonstration  Geeky Gadgets

JingPad A1 Linux tablet hands on demonstration  Geeky Gadgets

FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol is up to version 2.4 and exciting about this release is multi-threaded decoding support...

A lot of new code landed yesterday in the Btrfs file-system's "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 5.15 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

While PipeWire continues on a nice upward trajectory for fulfilling the roles of PulseAudio and JACK along with other audio/video stream management needs, PulseAudio isn't letting up yet and on Tuesday saw its big version 15.0 release...

GCC 11.2 is now available as the latest stable version of the GNU Compiler Collection...

In my previous article, I explained how to use ftrace to trace kernel functions. Using ftrace by writing and reading from files can get tedious, so I used a wrapper around it to run commands with options to enable and disable tracing, set filters, view output, clear output, and more.

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When I recently read Alan Formy-Duval's article Manage your Raspberry Pi with Cockpit, I thought it would be a good idea to have an image with Cockpit already preinstalled. Luckily there are at least two ways to accomplish this task: 

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Best Linux distros for gaming in 2021  Tom's Guide

Boardcon EM3566 Linux SBC is powered by a Rockchip RK3566 System-on-Module  CNX Software

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LAMP is a popular stack used in development circles for hosting both static and dynamic web applications. It’s an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL (or MariaDB) & PHP. Notably, it comprises the Apache web

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Culture is something that is talked about a lot when it comes to the workplace. It can be what attracts people to a company in the first place and it is what keeps associates at an organization in the long run. And let’s be clear, culture is about much more than free snacks and ping pong tables. It’s about how we work together. But creating and maintaining a culture takes work and it’s something we take seriously at Red Hat.