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How to Actually Install Ubuntu on USB  It's FOSS

The difference between Linux and windows - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Google Working to Bring Android Closer to Linux Kernel  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds has now issued the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 5.15 kernel...

Can You Run Linux Without a Desktop Environment?  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Take a Typing Test on Linux With tt  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Take a Typing Test on Linux With tt  MakeUseOf

Given last week's release of Chrome 94, here are some fresh browser benchmarks looking at Firefox 92 stable against Chrome 94 running on Ubuntu Linux...

Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

What Is the Linux Command Line and How Do You Use It?  MUO - MakeUseOf

GNU Wget2 2.0 has been released for this successor to GNU Wget. There are many improvements to this GPLv3+ licensed program. Over the original GNU Wget, Wget2 is faster, supports more protocols especially around HTTP/2 and compression, supports multi-threading / parallel connections, and other improvements...

How you can Make the Switch From Windows to Linux 2021 Tips - Bollyinside  BollyInside

Earlier this month AMD published their "amd-pstate" Linux driver that leverages ACPI CPPC data to make more informed CPU frequency scaling decisions with an aim to boost the performance-per-Watt for Zen 3 (and eventually Zen 2) processors on Linux. The second spin of that "amd-pstate" Linux kernel driver is now available for testing...

It was just last month when ~3.5M IOPS per-core was impressive with the code for Linux 5.15 to further push Linux's I/O limits. Now for code likely to be included in Linux 5.16 it's currently at 3.8M IOPS with a single tread...

Set Bing Daily Wallpaper on Ubuntu Desktop Linux automatically  H2S Media

Howt to analyze Linux system boot time with Systemd  H2S Media

What Is the Linux Command Line and How Do You Use It?  MakeUseOf

Making Linux Offline Voice Recognition Easier  Hackaday

With the KDE Plasma 5.23 release quickly approaching, feature development is already heating up for Plasma 5.24 while concurrently driving many fixes into the v5.23 codebase...

For several years now Facebook engineers have been working on BOLT as a way to speed-up Linux/ELF binaries. This "Binary Optimization and Layout Tool" is able to re-arrange executables once profiled to generate even faster performance than what can be achieved by a compiler's LTO and PGO optimizations. One of the latest BOLT efforts has been on optimizing the Linux kernel image...